CSEC 101B - Incident Handling & Response

Credits: 3

Description
Students learn to design and manage key business information security functions including incident handling, response plans, incident response teams, disaster recovery plans, and discuss business continuity plans. Reporting, response planning and budgeting are all addressed. Students prepare an incident response, disaster recovery, or business continuity plan for a real-world organization such as a business or a government body or agency. CSEC 105B taken concurrently is suggested.

Student Learning Outcomes

Examine the placement of security functions in a system and express the strengths and weaknesses.
Develop contingency plans for various size organizations to include business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident response.
Design system specific plans for the protection of intellectual property, the implementation of access controls, and patch/change management.
Generate formal security policy models to real world scenarios.

Prerequisite: ENG 100 or ENG 101 or ENG 107 or ENG 110 or ENG 113 with a grade of C- or better
Corequisite: None

Graded: Letter Grade