Jones & Bartlett Learning

Managing Risk

Course Description

This course addresses the broad topic of risk management and how risk, threats, and vulnerabilities impact information systems. Areas of instruction include how to assess and manage risk based on defining an acceptable level of risk for information systems. Elements of a business impact analysis, business continuity plan, and disaster recovery plan will also be discussed.

Major Instructional Areas

1. Risk management basics
2. Risk assessment plan
3. Risk mitigation plan
4. Cost and benefit analysis
5. Business continuity plan
6. Disaster recovery plan 

Course Objectives

1. Explain the basic concepts of and need for risk management.
2. Identify compliancy laws, standards, best practices, and policies of risk management.
3. Describe the components of an effective organizational risk management program.
4. Describe techniques for identifying relevant threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits.
5. Identify risk mitigation security controls.
6. Describe concepts for implementing risk mitigation throughout an organization.
7. Perform a business impact analysis for a provided scenario.
8. Create a business continuity plan (BCP) based on the findings of a given risk assessment for an organization.
9. Create a disaster recovery plan (DRP) based on the findings of a given risk assessment for an organization.
10. Create a Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) plan for an organization in a given scenario.

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