ITNS524 : Security Policy and Risk Management

Department

Department of Computer Networks

Academic Program

Master in Cyber Security

Type

Compulsory

Credits

03

Prerequisite

Overview

This course discusses how to implement security policies to support organizational goals. It provides students with an introduction to information security policies, discuss the entire lifecycle of policy creation and enactment and presents students with issue specific policies in different domains of security. The course also discusses disaster recovery methodologies for identifying, quantifying, mitigating, and controlling security risks. Students learn to write IT risk management plans, standards, and procedures that identify alternate sites for processing mission-critical applications, and techniques to recover infrastructure, systems, networks, data, and user access.

Intended learning outcomes

Knowledge &understand

mental skills

Practical & professional skills

General and transferable skills

Teaching and learning methods

  • Lectures.
  • Lab-work.
  • Fieldwork.
  • Case studies.
  • Exercises and home-works.

Methods of assessments

  • Assignments.
  • Exercises and home-works.
  • Written exams.
  • Oral exams.
  • Discussions and presentations.
  • Mini projects

Course contents