Planning a Security Incident Response

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Free Online Course: Planning a Security Incident Response provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4 weeks long, 2-4 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Planning a Security Incident Response is taught by Philip E. Helsel and Kimberly Rasmusson-Anderson.

Overview
  • This course is designed to help you manage an enterprise security incident, while avoiding common errors, increasing both the effectiveness and efficiency of your incident response efforts.

    Note: These courses will retire in June. Please enroll only if you are able to finish your coursework in time.

Syllabus
  • Module 1

    • Introduction
    • What is threat modelling?
    • The need for incident response plans
    • Assess vulnerabilities in your environment
    • Establish routine monitoring and review of network traffic and system performance
    • Log analysis

    Module 2

    • Incident Response Policy, Plan, and Procedure Creation
    • Creation of a CSIRT
    • Establish CSIRT team roles
    • Establish governing policy

    Module 3

    • Initial assessment of incident
    • Attack vectors
    • What are false positives and false negatives?
    • Determine the nature of the attack
    • Identify the systems that have been compromised
    • Choosing a containment strategy

    Module 4

    • Post-incident activity
    • Protect the evidence while restoring functionality
    • Recommendations and Lessons learned
    • Security incident report