VU22250 - Respond to cyber security incidents

Unit code: VU22250 | Study level: TAFE

Credit points

N/A

Location

Footscray Nicholson

St Albans

Prerequisites

N/A

Overview

This unit provides the knowledge and skills for a paraprofessional working as a team member to prepare for and respond to a cyber security incident within an organisation. The unit includes identifying when the incident occurred, developing and implementing an appropriate response’ strategy, evaluate the success of the response and any long term effects of the incident.
The unit also includes the knowledge and skills required to accurately document the incident and update the organisation’s incident response plan to reduce the risk of further incidents.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• Articulating relevant issues encountered in the work environment
• Reading and accurately interpreting documents and reports
• Operating a personal computer
• Assembling, participating in and coordinating a work team
• Problem solving within a team environment
• Evaluating the performance of a work team
• Contributing to the process of enhancing team performance
• Developing a project implementation plan including realistic timelines and allocation of tasks for team members
• Establishing project risk assessment
• Gathering, testing and allocating project resources
• Installing and using software packages
• Preparing technical documentation
• Making presentation to clients
• Communicating and engaging external contractors
• Escalating procedures
• Working effectively in a stressful environment
• Making clear concise decisions
• Communicating effectively to different working groups
• Contributing to organisation’s policies and procedures
• Evaluating new technologies
• Evaluating of policies, standards and procedures effectiveness for continuous improvement

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• Ethics & communication
• Coordinating/managing an incident
• Group collaboration & decision making
• Presentation skills for decision making groups
• Function and role of the monitoring equipment and software
• Sources of data threats
• Data gathering processes
• Communication styles
• Organisational members roles and responsibilities
• When and who to communicate incidents
• Escalation strategies
• Risk assessment of incidents
• Policies, standards and procedures effectiveness for continuous improvement
• Incident response procedures
• Tools and techniques used in the organisation to deal

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.