Information security risk management & Privacy (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
-list the phases of information security risk management process
-give examples of different information security risk assessment methods
-analyze the results of information security risk assessment
-construct a privacy policy
-protect his/her privacy in electronic data communication

Content

On risk management
-the basic principles of information security risk assessment and risk management
-different approaches to classify information security risks
-organization and conduction of information security risk assessment to an SME sector enterprise or similar size organization
-justified improvement proposals to mitigate information security risks.

On privacy
-regulations of data protection in Finland and in EU
-examples of the duties of personnel working with data protection and privacy
-examples of the rights to check how his/her own privacy has been protected in different environments
-planning and conducting actions required by the data and privacy protection in an SME sector enterprise or similar size organization
-assess the efficiency of these actions and give justified improvement proposals for them