CIS 460 - Incident Response

5 Credits

Students use lab environments to explore Incident Response. The students will gather and use threat intel to identify indicators of compromise, tactics, techniques, and procedures. Students will explain and demonstrate their processes through reporting.

Pre-requisite(s) CIS 450 min 2.0
Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - CIS
FeesAcademic Technology Fee

Quarters Typically Offered
Designed to Serve For students admitted to the BAS program in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics.
Active Date 20240401T16:35:02

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 44 Lab 22
Total Contact Hours 66
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline

Frameworks for incident handling
Organizational roles in incident response
Compliance, legal, and regulatory requirements for incident handling
Incident management program processes
- Preparation and training
- Analysis of events and detection of incidents
- Incident containment, eradication, and recover
- Post-incident analysis
Testing detection and response capabilities
Architecting for visibility
Developing response playbooks
Incident response for common environments
- Internal systems
- Cloud platforms
- Software as a service
- Development
Organizational policies, procedures, and standards for incident handling

Student Learning Outcomes
Summarize the principles of computer security incident response

Summarize the regulatory and compliance requirements of computer security incident response

Evaluate frameworks and methodologies used to interpret common tactics, techniques, and procedures

Create incident response playbooks and describe contingency planning

Identify technical, compliance, and regulatory trends in incident response

Generate system security plan recommendations from lessons learned through the incident response process

Perform monitoring, detection, and incident management for systems commonly used in industry