Examination arrangement

Course content

• Introduction to socio-technical risks, threats, and vulnerabilities modeling and analysis
• Socio-technical root cause and impact analysis of crimes enabled by socio-technical changes and innovations
• Multi-level and multi-paradigmatic perspectives on socio-technical transitions in digital ecosystems
• Utilization of economic, political, regulatory, and legal instruments to address socio-technical enabled crimes at national and international levels

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

• Understanding the socio-technical ICT evolution and innovation that has taken place over the last decades.
• Understanding the widening socio-technical gap in the organizations and governments and reflecting on how to tackle the vulnerabilities caused by this gap.
• Applying broad systems theory perspectives connected to practical cases so they will have the insight to implement a roadmap for information security in organizations and businesses.
• Gaining insight and understanding of crimes caused by socio-technical changes in the societies and proposing sustainable preventive recommendations for these crimes using social sciences, in particular, criminology and systems theory.
• Understanding the socio-technical risk analysis and reflecting on the use of appropriate security metrics for the analysis.
• Good knowledge of how cybersecurity laws, policies, and strategies can contribute to mitigating the risk of socio-technical enabled crimes.

Skills:

• Ability to connect social concepts to technical security problems and solutions.
• Ability to participate in strategy and policy debates about socio-technical issues at national and international levels.
• Ability to use relevant systems sciences and socio-technical theory in independent research and development in information security organization and management
• Ability to perform critical analysis of various literature sources and apply them in structuring and formulating scientific reasoning information security organization and management.
• Ability to carry out an independent limited research or development project in information security and management under supervision, following the applicable ethical rules.

General competence:

• The student can analyze relevant professional and research ethical problems in information security organizations and management.
• The student can apply his/her information security knowledge and skills in new fields, to accomplish advanced tasks and projects.
• The student can use rhetorical techniques to discuss professional problems, analyses, and conclusions in the information security organization and management, both with specialists and with a general audience.
• The student can contribute to innovation and innovation processes in information security and socio-technical modeling and analysis for information security management.

Learning methods and activities

This course is only available if min 5 students will register for the course. -Hybrid lectures -Self-study / mainly reading materials -Group work -Seminar(s) -E-learning -Compulsory assignments -Project work -Reflection

Additional information: -The course will be made accessible for both campus(Gjøvik) and remote students. Every student is free to choose the pedagogic arrangement form that is best fitted for her/his own requirement. The lectures in the course will be given on campus (Gjøvik) and are open for both categories of students. All the lectures will also be available on Internet through NTNU's learning management system.

Mandatory assignments:

Attendance of the students in four sessions during the semester is mandatory. The dates of these sessions will be announced at the beginning of the semester. The mandatory assignment of this course is participation in a cyber strategy challenge. The instructions for this challenge will be sent out in the first lab session. It is expected that all the students participate in this challenge and attend the sessions related to that.

Compulsory assignments

• Lab assignments

Further on evaluation

Re-sit:

There is no exam in the course (only mandatory lab assignments and the term paper). Therefore, there will be no re-sit for this course.

Forms of assessment:

Lab assignments

Term paper with a maximum of 5000 words. The term paper must be in English and done individually.

Specific conditions

Course materials

All the reading materials (both mandatories and supplementary) will be uploaded in Blackboard in the beginning of and during the semester.

Credit reductions