Professional Diploma in Cyber Incident Response Essentials

On completion of Professional Diploma in Cyber Incident Response Essentials, learners will be able to:

(a) adopt the network monitoring and the incident response process, including the threat landscape, targeted attack life cycle, initial attack vectors used by different threat actors, and phases of an effective incident response process;

(b) conduct system triage to answer key questions about what transpired across the environment during an incident;

(c) identify, analyse and use critical sources of evidence to investigate and analyse compromised operating systems;

(d) investigate a full environment, at scale, for signs of compromise using proactive hunting;

(e) manage and effectively record information related to ongoing investigations and incidents;

(f) manage and monitor the network intrusion detection system to perform event-based monitoring and minimise network traffic with the rule settings;

(g) design and configure a wired or wireless network for a small office and troubleshoot basic errors for a small office computer network system;

(h) install and configure a Windows/Linux server, apply essential security services, and install standard monitoring tools for system monitoring; and

(i) analyse the impact of different cyber attacks on individuals and organisations, and suggest and implement appropriate security controls to protect the computer network infrastructure based on the latest cybersecurity trends.

The professional Diploma programme offers the following modules:

Windows Incident Response (24hrs)

Linux Incident Response (24hrs)

Network Incident Response (24hrs)

Security Essentials (36hrs)

Windows Administration Essentials (21hrs)

Linux Administration Essentials (21hrs)

Network Essentials (21hrs)

Schedule

- 1 to 2 nights per week.

- In special circumstances, some lessons may be conducted in online mode.

- Duration: 171 hrs. The normal duration for completion of the programme is around 24 months.