ITM 527 IT Security and Disaster Recovery Management
Organizations have become completely dependent on information technology, and vulnerable to an increasing number of complex exposures, threats and perpetrators. This course focuses on information technology security issues from a managerial perspective. The basic purpose is to present a framework for minimizing the risks for information assets. Hackers and attackers of websites, email systems, spy ware, which embeds itself on workstations and networks increasingly present major threats to the economic wellbeing and even survival of organizations. Topics include security and network weakness scanners, firewalls, access control managers. Also covered are the macro issues of disaster planning and recovery, backup and redundancy, e-business security, risk management, information security policies regulations and standard; privacy and ethics.