Security Assessment and Risk Analysis
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The official GTU curriculum for Security Assessment and Risk Analysis (subject code 3725905) as prescribed for CS · Semester 2 divides the course into 9 units, covering 26 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3725905)Unit 1 Introduction, what is risk and risk management, risk assessment, monitoring and review,
- cyber system
Unit 2 What is cyber security, how does cyber security relate to information security, how does cyber
- security relate to critical infrastructure protection
- how does cyber security relate to safety
- What is cyber risk
- communication and consultation of cyber risk
- cyber risk assessment
- monitoring and review of cyber risk
Unit 3 Context establishment, context, goals and objectives, target of assessment, interface to cyberspace
- and attack surface
- focus and assumption
- scale and risk evaluation criteria
Unit 4 Risk identification techniques, malicious risks, non-malicious risks, risk analysis, threat analysis,
- vulnerability analysis
- likelihood of incidents
- consequences of incidents
Unit 5 Risk evaluation, consolidation of risk analysis results, evaluation of risk level, risk aggregation,
- risk grouping
- risk treatment identification
- risk acceptance
Unit 6 Two-factor measure, three-factor measure, many-factor measure, which measure to use for
- cyber risk?
- classification of scales
- qualitative versus quantitative risk assessment
- scale for likelihood
- scale for consequence
- what scale to use for cyber risk
Unit 9 Automating metric calculations and tools 5
- Subject Code: 3725902 w.e.f
Unit 10 What is an IT security assessment, what is an IT security audit, what is compliance, how does and
- audit differs from assessment
- case study: Enron
- TJX Credit Card Breach