Incident Response Course. Introduction to IR and Business Continuity (INVER...
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Introduction to Incident Response, Business Continuity & Recovery
Scottish Government Employees ONLY
READ THIS BEFORE YOU REGISTER: This is a course delivered on behalf of the Scottish Government. It is open to Scottish Government employees, and employees of Scottish Government funded organisations (i.e. NHS, local government, academic institutions etc.)IN ORDER TO REGISTER YOU NEED TO PROVIDE A BUSINESS EMAIL. WEBMAILS (i.e. Gmail, Hotmail etc) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AND YOUR REGISTRATION WILL BE CANCELLED WITHOUT ANY WARNING. THIS IS BECAUSE WE CAN ONLY ACCEPT VERIFIED EMPLOYEES ONLY. THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO ACADEMIC STAFF (with a .ac.uk email) BUT NOT FOR STUDENTS.
This is an introductory course to Incident Response and Business Continuity. It is designed for both non-technical managers, as well as IT/ICT managers with little or no prior experience in IR planning. The course is focused on IT/Cyber incidents and how an organisation can prepare and deal with them.
The course will cover the following topics
- Types of cyber related incidents
- Examples of major and minro incidents
- The need for changes in organisational culture
- The need for a holistic approach. IR is not just for the IT crowd!
- Management involvment in all steps of planning
- Risk Management for IT
- Crisis Management
- Business Continuity
- IR Planning (IRP)
- IRP Deployment
- IRP Drilling
- IRP Implementation during/after an incident
- Review of IRP
- Lessons Learned
Who should attend this course:
- HR/Personnel Managers
- General Managers
- IT/ICT Managers
- PR staff
- Compliance staff
- Staff involved in GDPR
- Legal advisors
- Any other managerial staff
This is a presentation based event that will include some practical exercises but non technical.
There are no IT/Technical prerequisites for this course
PRESENTER: The presenter for this event is Adrian Smales, MBA, a research fellow at Edinburgh Napier University and an Associate at The Cyber Academy. He has served as Head of ICT at the Natural History Museum and he is doing a PhD in Health Informatics.
