Administration and Secretarial
Cyber Security
£2360 (£1600 during the tuition waiver period)
The professional and lawful response to managing an incident can be the difference between company survival or otherwise. Poor responses to major incidents, including mega data breaches, have significantly damaged organisational reputations and financial performance. Significantly mismanaging a cyber incident can result in catastrophic personal and organisational consequences. Such business ‘impacts’ are covered in-depth within our Threat and Risk units at Levels 2, 3 and 4. and will be explored during this Level 5 unit as part of the contextual case-study learning, and isomorphic reflections, that are central to this unit.
In this course learners will explore the types of site, personnel and equipment required in relation to planning for Incident. Management and forming an organisational CERT team (Computer Emergency Response Team). They will then explore the core sub-disciplines and side-disciplines of Cyber Incident Management: Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Management and Crisis Management. Learners will discuss the importance of the business organisational requirement for skilled and planned communications to operate in combination with advanced and developed management responses and strategy.
1. Understand the physical and human resources required to manage a major suspected cyber security incident
2. Apply Business Continuity Management to major incident planning and response
3. Understand how Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management are integrated into a suspected major cyber-enabled incident
4. Evaluate the potential impact of NOT planning crisis communications and incident response
Scholarships
Citizens of the following countries are eligible for a 50% scholarship upon writing a personal statement. All scholarships are to be approved by the Academic Board. The list of countries are: Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Philippines, Bhutan, Morocco, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Laos, Cambodia, India, Nigeria, Ghana, Bangladesh, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Nepal and South Africa. Please talk to your student counselor and ask for the Coupon Code to get the 50% Tuition Waiver.
To pass the unit a 40% overall grade must be achieved.
You are eligible if you meet our stipulated entry requirements.
Introduction
Understanding cyber security incidents
Business Continuity Management
Business Continuity Planning
DR and CM in BCM
Cyber Security Issues
Communication during a Cyber Security Incident
Cyber Resilience Approaches