IT 172 - Security Policies and Implementation Issues

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: IT 170.
Lecture Hrs. 3

This course provides students with the basic understanding of information security policy creation. Students will analyze how security policies help mitigate risks and support the business process within the seven domains of an IT infrastructure. They will learn to create a security policy process and use existing templates for implementation in an organization. Students will examine existing information security policies and frameworks and apply the correct one to an existing business risk or objective. They will also examine how incident response applies to security policies and why every incident has a security policy related to it. Finally, the students will gain exposure to IT policy compliance systems, and emerging technologies that are providing automation tools to implement, monitor, and report on information security policies organizationally.
Offered As Scheduled
Grading Basis Normal Grading Mode