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Incident Response

This course examines the nature of security incidents and how best to respond.

  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    6 hours
Overview
Requirements

Learn how to critically evaluate security incidents and respond accordingly

This course examines some of the key concepts behind the idea of a security incident, and presents some of the possible responses which will be explored in later courses.

What topics will you cover?

  • Anatomy of a security incident
  • Events vs incidents
  • Incident Response (IR) lifecycle
  • The IR process
  • IR policies and procedures
  • Provenance of evidence
  • IR in the business context

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Assess what is and is not a security incident
  • Evaluate a set of incident response processes and policies

Who is the course for?

This course is for students wishing to learn how best to approach and respond to a variety of security incidents.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992

  • Location

    Coventry

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

  • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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