Security Management (SMA)

Manage Information Security in Organizations: Assess risks, plan security measures, and develop strategies for effective information security management.

Contents

• Security organization
• Security policies
• Information risk management
• Security analysis
• Security processes
• Norms and standards for information security
• Crisis Management
• Business Continuity Management
• In addition: selected topics of IT- and corporate security

Competencies

Students are able to

• perform a security analysis,
• conduct risk assessments,
• analyse the current security situation and evaluate the appropriateness of security controls,
• understand why security often plays a secondary role in management decisions,
• develop a concept for a security organization within an enterprise,
• propose security controls and to present them successfully to a committee of decision makers

Literature

• G. Birkner, Security Management 2011: Handbuch für Informationsschutz, IT-Sicherheit, Standortsicherheit, Wirtschaftskriminalität und Managerhaftung. Köln, Germany: Bank-Verlag Medien, 2011.
• K.-R. Müller, Handbuch Unternehmenssicherheit: Umfassendes Sicherheits-, Kontinuitäts- und Risikomanagement mit System. Wiesbaden, Germany: Vieweg+Teubner, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-8348-0775-5.
• S. Gundel and L. Mülli, Unternehmenssicherheit: Ganzheitliches Sicherheitsmanagement für Unternehmen. Berlin, Germany: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2009.

Lecturer

• Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus
• Sebastian Krüsmann

Recommended Previous Knowledge 

• none

Module Details

Semester	6/7
Lecture Language	German
Frequency	Not regularly
Credit Points (ECTS)	5
Course Coordinator	Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus
Duration	1 Semester
Course Achievement	None
Prerequisite for exam	None
Exam	Continuous Assessment (CA)

Weekly Hours (SWS) 

Lecture	2 SWS
Exercises	2 SWS
Sum	4 SWS

Work Load 

Lecture	60 h
Self Study	30 h
Assignments	60 h
Sum	150 h