Forventet læringsutbytte

Having completed the course, the students will be able to:

• Understand the dynamics challenges to implement security standards (the ISO 27000 family) in organizations
• Analyze security management challenges as a systemic problem involving technology, organization, human factors and incentives
• Create causal maps and develop models of dynamic systems of moderate size of relevance for information security
• Verify and validate the models, simulate scenarios and test policies.
• Assess which policies are good and bad, which are robust and whether they are realistic.
• Understand challenges that are due to dynamic complexity, such as policy resistance, i.e. the tendency for complex dynamic systems to react in a way that defeats well-meant policies that do not consider unintended side effects.

Emnets temaer

• Foundations – Security standards from the perspective of change and dynamics
• Introduction to qualitative system dynamics: Causal loop diagrams; System archetypes
• Modelling security management dynamics using system archetypes and causal loop diagrams
• Introduction to quantitative system dynamics: Causal structure and dynamic behaviour. Introduction to stocks and flows. Time delays.
• Basic system dynamics models of security management.

Pedagogiske metoder

Forelesninger
Oppgaveløsning
Prosjektarbeid

Pedagogiske metoder (fritekst)

Web-enabled course with forum

Vurderingsformer

Flervalgstest(er)
Vurdering av prosjekt(er)

Vurderingsformer

• Two multiple choice exams counting each 15%
• Two individual projects (papers) counting each 35%
• Each part must be individually approved of
  

Karakterskala

Bokstavkarakterer, A (best) - F (ikke bestått)

Sensorordning

Evaluated by the lecturer

Gjennomføring av kontinuasjon

The whole course must be repeated.

Obligatoriske arbeidskrav

The course requires active participation in projects – both in class and outside class.

Hands-on modelling exercises during class are best carried out in computer lab.

Students are encouraged to bring laptops to the classroom.

Læremidler

Literature:

Maani, Kambiz E.; Cavana, Robert Y. Systems Thinking And Modelling. Pearson Education. 9781877371035.

Lectures, exercises and projects by Jose J. Gonzalez in Classfronter

Erstatter

IMT4111 Sikkerhetsledelse