Being Security Minded
Owner: Dr Philip Shields
Number of students: 1
Formative Deadline: Friday W22
Learning Outcomes
Engineers should be security-minded: identifying, assessing, and mitigating threats to ensure the safety and integrity of engineering projects. This ranges from protecting sensitive information and intellectual property to ensuring the physical security of assets and infrastructure. Engineers are expected to consider potential vulnerabilities and implement mitigation to safeguard against deliberate, unwanted, hostile, or malicious acts in a holistic and proportionate way.
Knowledge Requirements
For Knowledge, you should complete the “Being Security Minded” Moodle quiz available on this unit’s Moodle page.
Application Requirements
Achieving the skill at application requires completion of the skill at Knowledge and additionally… The page should include a section entitled ‘Being security-minded’ where you consider and respond to one of the following principles within the context of a case study provided to you (100-250 words or 2 min audio/video): 1) Adopting a security-minded approach to your professional life. 2) Applying responsible judgement to security issues. 3) Understanding and complying with security codes. 4) Ensuring security-minded communications. 5) Understanding and complying with security management policies. 6) Contributing to awareness of security.
Synthesis Requirements
To achieve the skill at Synthesis you should discuss a significant security consideration within your Synthesis project in the context of more than one of the following principles (250-500 words or 5 min audio/video): 1) Adopting a security-minded approach to your professional life. 2) Applying responsible judgement to security issues. 3) Understanding and complying with security codes. 4) Ensuring security-minded communications. 5) Understanding and complying with security management policies. 6) Contributing to awareness of security.
Knowledge Opportunities
After the lecture W21
Application Opportunities
Case study released after the lecture W21