Admission requirements
This course is part of the minor Security, Safety and Justice, taught at TU Delft by a lecturer from TU Delft. The course can only be taken within the framework of participation in the minor SSJ.
Description
In this course you will be introduced to safety and security risk management as it is applied within organisations. You learn to understand, calculate and apply the concept of risk in safety and security settings, being aware of its benefits and limitations. You acquire academic knowledge and skills that allow you to analyse decisions made by risk managers, as well as reports on risk topics in media. The course focuses on safety risk first (accidents), and then extends the scope to security risk (attacks).
The following topics are covered:
Introduction into risk concepts, such as probability, frequency, threat, vulnerability, impact
History of risk thinking
Quantitative assessment of safety and security risks in organisations
Similarities and differences between safety and security risk
Fault trees and attack trees
Security testing
The risk management cycle in organisations
Course objectives
After this course, you are able to:
understand, apply, and calculate risk and related concepts in safety and security settings, as well as reason about those
explain the similarities and differences between safety and security risk and their assessment and articulate their relative value for security
understand the tasks and responsibilities of the risk manager
apply safety and security risk analysis techniques such as fault and attack trees in a structured way
explain the possibilities for security testing in organisations, and make choices among those possibilities
make well-founded decisions regarding safety and security issues and countermeasures, explain these choices and communicate them.
translate current safety and security subjects to the operational environment
apply academic skills for security analysis and security communication
Timetable
Schedule 2019 to be announced
The timetable will be displayed with a link on the website and on the front page of this minor programma.
Mode of instruction
Lectures (mandatory)
Exercises
Course Load
Total work load: 140 hours
Lectures: 21 hours
Self study: 119 hours
Assessment method
Students are expected to actively participate in class.
The grade is based on a written exam (100%).
Participation in lectures, discussions and exercises is required in order to obtain a grade. Student presence and participation is required and all assignments/exercises have to be fulfilled. One lecture can be missed. If a second lecture is missed, an assignment will be given to compensate. If a third lecture is missed, a passing grade can no longer be obtained, unless permission is granted from the Board of Examiners (with consent of the lecturer).
There is a resit for the written or digital exam in block 2, which will take the same form.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used. The corresponding Blackboard course will be made available one week before the start of classes.
Reading list
Thierry Meyer, Genserik Reniers (2016). Engineering Risk Management, 2nd ed. De Gruyter: Berlin.
Additional material (including scientific papers and videos) will be made available via Brightspace / website.
Registration
TBA
Contact
Prof. dr. ir. Genserik Reniers
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Safety & Security Science
Room: c1.100 (building 31 TU Delft)
+31 15 27 83749
G.L.L.M.E.Reniers@tudelft.nl
Remarks
All sessions will be in English.
The exam needs to be completed in English.
Lectures take place at TU Delft and are mandatory. You can miss one of the lectures without consequences (see also: assessment) , as long as you comply with the other requirements.