UJ Graduation Programme 13 May 2020 17h00

Malatji, Masike (DIng)

Masike Malatji is a Research Associate at the Postgraduate School of Engineering Management of the University of Johannesburg where he has co-supervised three master’s students to completion. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of the Western Cape in 1998, which he converted into an Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree at Stellenbosch University in 1999. He received his MEng in Engineering Management at the University of Johannesburg in 2015 with his dissertation yielding a journal publication. The candidate is currently working as a technology management practitioner and shares his experiences through part-time lecturing at the Tshwane University of Technology Business School. The candidate’s research explores the application of the socio -technical systems theory and systems engineering management principles to the information and cyber security domain. It has been consistently shown that the human being remained the weakest link in the enterprise security chain. Despite this, existing enterprise security frameworks remained largely techno-centric in their approaches. Thus, a novel approach that considers both the technical and non- technical enterprise security controls with equal emphasis was required. The candidate’s research proposed a socio -technical enterprise security management process that considers an organisation as a social (human included), technical and environmental system. The management process is used to identify and address socio-technical security gaps in existing enterprise security frameworks. A validation test was carried out using the COBIT ® 5 for information security framework to highlight the non-technical (social and environmental) security gaps in the framework. A journal article and conference paper were published from this research. Another paper has been submitted for publication consideration.

Supervisor: Prof AL Marnewick Co-supervisor: Prof S von Solms

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