Incident Response Lifecycle

Course Description

This course will give students the knowledge necessary to prepare an incident response plan, understand how to triage and categorize events and incidents, define appropriate policies, implement the necessary people, processes, and technologies based upon the risk posture of the organization, understand how to prevent, identify, detect, respond, and recovery from cyber incidents, and how to communicate effective with senior executives during an incident response. Other topics discussed include how to collect digital evidence for potential prosecution or employee disciplinary actions, how to work with external service providers and partners, and how to interface with law enforcement.

This course is intended for individuals who have a foundational understand of incident response. Students who desire to advance within a Security Operations Center (SOC) or those looking at leadership roles such as a SOC manager, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), or Director of Cybersecurity will benefit from this course. Additionally, those who are outside of IT or cyber but have been involved in incident response from a cursory role (e.g., CIOs, human resources (HR), legal, etc.) and would like a deeper understanding should take this course. If you desire to understand how incidents should be responded to and hear real-life examples of incident responses from an instructor who has responded to thousands of incidents, this is the course for you.

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

Prerequisites

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

Write a detailed incident response plan for an organization.

Understand how to set an organization up for success prior to having an incident or breach to respond to.

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Preparing an Organization for a Cyber Incident

Module 3: Identifying Organizational Assets and Risk

Module 4: Protecting an Organization from a Cyber Incident

Module 5: Detecting the Cyber Incident

Module 6: Responding to a Cyber Incident

Module 7: Recovering from a Cyber Incident

Module 8: Conclusion