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CFI 2203 - Risk Management and Controls

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 2 Lab 2
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course addresses the broad topic of risk management and how risk, threats, and vulnerabilities impact information systems. Areas of instruction include how to assess and manage risk based on defining an acceptable level of risk for information systems. Course topics also include elements of a business impact analysis (BIA), business continuity plan (BCP), disaster recovery plan (DRP), and computer incident response team (CIRT) plan.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Risk management basics
  2. Risk assessment planning
  3. Risk mitigation planning
  4. Cost-benefit analysis
  5. Business continuity and disaster recovery planning

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  1. describe components of and approaches to effective risk management in an organization.
  2. describe techniques for identifying, analyzing, and mitigating relevant threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits.
  3. identify compliance laws, standards, best practices, and policies of risk management.
  4. describe components of and approaches to effective risk assessments in an organization.
  5. identify assets and activities to protect within an organization.
  6. identify risk mitigation security controls and develop a risk mitigation plan.
  7. perform a business impact analysis.
  8. perform business continuity, disaster, and incident response planning.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
None
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None


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