Course Code: MCSC 7002
Academic Year: 2026-2027
This course equips students with the essential skills to detect, respond to, and mitigate cyber incidents. It will cover the full spectrum of cybersecurity threats, including zero-day exploits, data breaches, malware, cloud security threats, IoT (Internet of Things) attacks, cyber espionage, and ransomware attacks. The students will develop the skills to structure and execute an incident response strategy, from detection to containment, recovery, and post-incident analysis, exploring the key phases of incident response based on best practices and frameworks like NIST and ISO. The course also covers the use of digital forensics investigation techniques to preserve, analyze, and interpret digital evidence, utilizing various forensic tools, evidence collection, chain of custody, data recovery, and malware analysis. The course will discuss crisis management, where students will understand how to manage the organizational and communication aspects of cyber incidents. Students examine insurance, through a critical lens they assess insurance policy requirements against organizational needs and capacity. Students will learn how to develop crisis management plans and manage reputational risks effectively.