IT 567 BUSINESS CONTINUITY, RESILIENCE, AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Information security systems are only as good as their weakest link. The threats facing an organization can come from malicious attacks, mistakes, and acts of nature. As the dependence on technology grows, the need for planning on how an organization can recover quickly from interruptions is an essential role for technology leaders. This course will focus on the processes, tools and techniques needed to provide for business continuity and recovery in the event of an outage. It is important that technology leaders prepare for these types of interruptions and build resilience and redundancy into their systems. This course will review the various methods to achieve a resilient security posture. Lastly, when a crisis occurs the first reaction is often chaos. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of crisis management to assist the organization in an organized, thoughtful and well-prepared response to unexpected events which includes ensuring the safety and security of employees and communications with the external environment.

Credits

Prerequisite

MBA: IT 520. MBASTEM/ITL and MSITL: IT 565.

Distribution

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY