IT RISK MANAGEMENT AND DISASTER RECOVERY (3 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Analyse the nature of information security and the risk involved; Propose the necessary mitigations for probable security events; Evaluate results of computer forensics for security risk management; To propose disaster recovery methods to recover from security attacks; To propose business continuity plan that can mitigate the IT infra structure disruptions.

Topics:

1. Introduction to Strategic IT Security and Risk Management;
2. IT Risk Portfolio; Managing Information Security Risk;
3. Methods of IT Risk Analysis;
4. Building Blocks of IT Security;
5. Electronic Crime and Forensic Computing;
6. Securing the network;
7. Securing network Operations, Databases, and Applications;
8. Computer Forensics – Tools and Acquisitions;
9. Computer Forensics – Analysis and validation;
10. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Preparation, Operation and Maintenance;
11. Business Continuity Preparation, Operations and Maintenance