MS CRS: Cyber Risk Management

(1.5 Credits)

This course provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of a Cybersecurity Risk manager and associated tools and techniques used to assess and understand Cyber risk to any organization or a product / service. This course addresses the principles and techniques of risk monitoring, assessment and reporting. It highlights the common and hidden risk of a typical IT infrastructure in an organization. The students are then exposed to Risk Management frameworks which allows for a common language to describe and document risk for assessment, mitigation planning and communication. Risk treatment plans and the major lines of defense are covered. Later in the course identification, selection, testing and effectiveness of Controls is taught along with Key Control Indicators (KCI’s).