MC03 - Information Security Management

Managing cyber risk, governance, and resilience in modern organisations.

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Start Date

... September 2026

  Credits

7.5 ECTS

  Semester

2 semester

  Delivery

Distance Learning

  Duration

13 Weeks

  Language

English

About This Course

This is a second-semester course in the MBA in Digital Deep Tech Driven Circular Economy
This course explores how organisations manage information security as a strategic and business-critical function. It brings together risk management, governance, regulatory compliance and organisational culture to show how information assets can be protected in a structured and sustainable way. Students gain hands-on exposure to internationally recognised frameworks and standards, learn how to identify and assess cyber risks, and develop practical skills in selecting and justifying security controls. Alongside the technical foundations, the course emphasises leadership, decision-making and professional development, preparing students to engage confidently with senior management and to build careers in information security and cybersecurity management in an international context.
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What You Will Learn


Cybersecurity Governance & Risk

  • Principles of cybersecurity governance and organisational risk
  • Threats, vulnerabilities, and risk assessment methodologies
  • Role of standards and frameworks in risk management


Risk Assessment & Threat Modelling

  • Techniques for identifying assets, threats, and vulnerabilities
  • Threat modelling approaches for cyber risk analysis
  • Selection of appropriate risk treatment strategies


Organisational Security Culture

  • Building cybersecurity awareness and organisational resilience

  • Policy development aligned with best practices

  • Career pathways and professional frameworks in cybersecurity

Skills You Will Gain

Cyber Risk Management

  • Developing cybersecurity risk management strategies
  • Applying structured risk assessment methodologies
  • Designing security controls based on identified risks

Security Policy & Awareness Design

  • Creating tailored security policies and frameworks
  • Designing awareness programmes for organisations
  • Supporting incident response and continuity planning

Leadership in Cybersecurity Governance

  • Leading enterprise risk initiatives and decision-making
  • Promoting cybersecurity culture across organisations
  • Coaching teams and supporting professional development
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Your 13-Week Journey

Here’s how your learning unfolds

Week 1 – Digital Wellbeing & Cybersecurity Foundations

Key concepts, domains, and their growing societal importance.

Week 2 – Personal Cybersecurity Essentials

Protecting personal digital environments through everyday security practices.

Week 3 – Threats to Digital Wellbeing

Cyberbullying, harassment, and digital fatigue and their impacts.

Week 4 – Social Wellbeing Online

Safe participation, digital literacy, and healthy online interaction.

Week 5 – Digital Addiction & Algorithms

How persuasive design and algorithms shape behaviour and dependency.

Week 6 – Mental Health in an Always-On World

Technostress, burnout, and strategies for digital resilience.

Week 7 – Designing for Security & Wellbeing

Human-centred design approaches for safer digital systems.

Week 8 – Misinformation & Emotional Resilience

Disinformation, online toxicity, and critical digital engagement.

Week 9 – Human Factors in Cybersecurity

Behaviour, cognitive bias, and user-driven cyber risk.

Week 10 – Ethics, AI & Surveillance

Privacy, autonomy, and the mental impact of emerging technologies.

Week 11 – Workplace Cybersecurity & Wellbeing

Balancing organisational security with employee mental health.

Week 12 – Personal Digital Wellbeing Strategy

Building sustainable habits and a personal action plan.

Week 13 – Intervention Design Workshop

Applying course concepts through collaborative, practical design.


Week 1 — Systems in Transition

See the world in systems.
Learn to rethink linear vs circular economies and explore planetary boundaries.

Week 2 — The Digital–Circular Nexus

Discover how tech enables sustainability.
Explore how AI, IoT, and data power circular innovation.

Week 3 — Policy as Infrastructure

Understand Europe’s circular blueprint.
Dive into the EU Green Deal, CEAP, and Digital Europe frameworks.

Week 4 — Designing for Re-entry

Design for durability, reuse, and remanufacturing.
Learn how digital twins and simulation tools extend product lifecycles.

Week 5 — Tracking Resources Through Data

Follow materials in motion.
Understand how IoT and data infrastructures create transparency in supply chains.

Week 6 — Blockchain for Accountability

Trust through transparency.
Explore blockchain’s potential for tracking, verification, and ethical assurance.

Week 7 — Learning Loops with AI

Let data drive regeneration.
See how AI and machine learning enable adaptive circular decision-making.

Week 8 — Cognitive Factories

Meet the new industrial symbiosis.
Examine how robotics and smart manufacturing create circular production systems.

Week 9 — Reverse Intelligence

Close the loop through recovery.
Explore reverse logistics, digital disassembly, and resource recovery networks.

Week 10 — Measuring Circularity

Turn data into progress.
Use metrics, KPIs, and dashboards to track circular performance.

Week 11 — Financing the Regenerative Future

Empower innovation.
Discover how deep-tech, investment, and valuation models support circular ventures.

Week 12 — Ethics and Mindsets

Lead with responsibility.
Reflect on ethics, human–machine collaboration, and the competences for circular leadership.

Week 13 — 2040 and Beyond

Imagine the future you want to build.
Learn to rethink linear vs circular economies and explore planetary boundaries.

Learn With Us

This course is co-created with academic and industry partners supporting circular innovation.
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation

Co-Created for Change

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