Communications and Incident Management

1.  Understand the physical and human resources required to manage a major suspected cyber security incident

1. Explain site-set-up, staffing and organisational arrangements for major suspected cyber-related incidents

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2.  Apply Business Continuity Management to major incident planning and response

1. Assess how Business Continuity Management can be aligned and integrated into a suspected cyber-enabled incident
2. Explain the people, assets and processes required within a Business Continuity Plan

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3.  Understand how Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management are integrated into a suspected major cyber-enabled incident

1. Assess how DR and CM strategies and tactics in relation to a suspected major cyber-enabled incident
2. Explain the components of good practice in DR and CM plans

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4.  Evaluate the potential impact of NOT planning crisis communications and incident response

1. Evaluate the isomorphic lessons from major cyber breaches and company shutdowns
2. Analyse communications approaches and perceived failures in cases of catastrophic business loss related to IT systems failure or attack
3. Justify recommendations that would support a cyber resilient approach

• The assessment strategy for this course is designed to test all the learning outcomes.
• Learners must demonstrate successful achievement of all learning outcomes to pass the course.

• The assessment criteria for a pass will be presented with the summative exercise.
• Further information and guidance on the assessment will be made available through the tutor.

To pass the unit a 40% overall grade must be achieved.