Teaching Information Security Management in Postgraduate Tertiary Education: The Case of Horizon Automotive Industries

Teaching cases based on stories about real organizations are a powerful means of storytelling. These cases closely parallel real-world situations and can deliver on pedagogical objectives as writers can use their creative license to craft a storyline that better focuses on the specific principles, c...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-03
Main Authors: Ahmad, Atif, Maynard, Sean B, Motahhir, Sameen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case studies
Colleges & universities
Graduate studies
Information management
Information systems
Principles
Security
Security management
Students
Teaching
Theft
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Summary:Teaching cases based on stories about real organizations are a powerful means of storytelling. These cases closely parallel real-world situations and can deliver on pedagogical objectives as writers can use their creative license to craft a storyline that better focuses on the specific principles, concepts, and challenges they want to address in their teaching. The method instigates critical discussion, draws out relevant experiences from students, encourages questioning of accepted practices, and creates dialogue between theory and practice. We present Horizon, a case study of a firm that suffers a catastrophic incident of Intellectual Property (IP) theft. The case study was developed to teach information security management (ISM) principles in key areas such as strategy, risk, policy and training to postgraduate Information Systems and Information Technology students at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
ISSN:2331-8422