Teaching Areas

What is it?

Business Security Management focuses on information security in a corporate context. It looks at the design, management and security implications of eBusiness and provides an understanding of data communication systems and the ability to design solutions to meet the information system and security needs of an organisation.

Information security refers to protecting information and information systems from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. The goals of information security include protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.

All organisations, including governments, military, financial institutions, hospitals, and private businesses, gather and store a great deal of confidential information about their employees, customers, products, research, and financial operations. Most of this information is collected, processed and stored on electronically and transmitted across networks to other computers. Protecting confidential information is a business requirement, and in many cases also an ethical and legal requirement. For the individual, information security has a significant effect on privacy and identity theft.

Why study it?

Students will learn how to apply security techniques to protect the information within organisations. It will focus on the legal, technical and theoretical aspects of business security management.