Business Resilience, Incident Management and Threat Response

Master incident response and resilience to safeguard business operations from cyber threats.

Key Details

This module is delivered in hybrid format, as a combination of online, in-person and self-learning activities. The module uses innovative hybrid learning methods that combine live (synchronous) and self-paced (asynchronous) activities, with particular focus on practical activities and real-world scenarios connected to cybersecurity. Expert tutors guide students through the material, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.

This module aims to equip participants with a comprehensive understanding of industry-leading best practices—including NIST, ISO, and other standards—for establishing and enhancing organizational resilience against cyber threats. Toward this goal, the module employs periodic quizzes, in-class participation and assignments.

Time commitment:
– Online activities: 10 hours
– In-person activities: 11 hours
– Self-learning: 28 hours
– Individual, team and guided projects and activities: 101 hours
– Total: 150 hours

Credit points:
– 6 ECTS

Grading:
– Lecture quizzes: 10%
– Seminar work: 10%
– Assignments: 30%
– Exam: 50% (scenario essay, practical exam)

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Subjects covered

• Introduction
• Assessing Impact of Cyber Attacks
• System Security Concepts
• Scaling Incident Response
• IR Roles and Responsibilities
• Incident Response Process
• Business Processes
• System Forensics and Tools
• Threat Intelligence & Threat Response
• Security operations for IR
• IR Improvement process
• Summary

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Learning objectives

Apply best practices and frameworks to assess organizational risk, response preparedness, and compliance requirements in real-world scenarios.

Develop and execute incident response plans, incorporating detection, investigation, analysis, and activation procedures tailored to organizational needs.

Utilize security tools such as SIEM, forensic, and E-discovery solutions to investigate and analyze security incidents from end to end.

Perform Business Impact Analyses and process mapping to evaluate organizational resilience and operational continuity.

Design and implement incident response workflows and escalation procedures to improve response effectiveness and minimize disruption.

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Module leaders

Mihai CARABAȘ is a Professor at National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania, the Computer Science and Engineering Department. He is primarily interested in operating systems and computer architectures, cluster, cloud and grid computing, including all the security aspects of these subjects. He has lad or was member of multiple european funded security projects. He is also leading the cybersecurity effort of the University in terms of its own systems.

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