Analytics, Economics, & Metrics in Information Security Management. 3 credits

Catalog description

This course teaches various aspects of human and business factors that needed for decision making by information security managers. First, it introduces the incentives, market failures, and biases affecting the security decisions of organizations and individuals in the ecosystem of security products/services, as well as economic mechanisms and tools that help make better security decisions. Second, it teaches how to create effective analytics driven tools for security monitoring, incident detection and for informing decisions in formulating response to incidents as well as ongoing review of information security policies. The course teaches how to create reports, charts, dashboards, lookups, and alerts using tools such as Splunk. Other topics covered include supply chain and cybersecurity, information security considerations during organizational change, downsizing as well as mergers and/or acquisitions. Offered by Costello College of Business . May not be repeated for credit.