Mar 29, 2026  
Academic Catalog 2025-2026 
  
Academic Catalog 2025-2026
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IT 567 - Business Continuity, Resilience, and Crisis Management


Information security systems are only as good as their weakest link. The threats facing an organization can come from malicious attacks, mistakes, and acts of nature. As the dependence on technology grows, the need for planning on how an organization can recover quickly from interruptions is an essential role for technology leaders. This course will focus on the processes, tools and techniques needed to provide for business continuity and recovery in the event of an outage. It is important that technology leaders prepare for these types of interruptions and build resilience and redundancy into their systems. This course will review the various methods to achieve a resilient security posture. Lastly, when a crisis occurs the first reaction is often chaos. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of crisis management to assist the organization in an organized, thoughtful and well-prepared response to unexpected events which includes ensuring the safety and security of employees and communications with the external environment.

Credit(s): 3

Outcomes
  • Define and explain key terms in assessing risks to the integrity and availability of organizational assets
  • Evaluate the required level of business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) preparedness based on organizational needs.
  • Develop a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) assessment that defines current state, future state and a gap analysis.
  • Identify and secure mission-critical data stores, information systems and network; and develop a long-range BC/DR strategy.
  • Design and implement technology recovery plans and keep them current.
  • Describe government and industry regulations related to BC/DR preparedness.
  • Develop a plan for and manage systems, networks, processes, and people for an organized and prompt response to various disruptions and disasters.



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