Our company collects and processes large amounts of data from thousands of customers. It is of utmost importance that we keep this data confidential and safely manage personal information.

We would like to collaborate with students to create an incident response plan. This plan would help our company respond to cybersecurity threats and maintain customer trust.

This will involve several different steps for the students, including:

• Familiarizing themselves with our mission and vision statements.
• Completing a needs assessment.
• Identifying phases of the incident response process.
• Recommending procedures to identify and recover from cybersecurity threats.

Bonus steps in the process would also include:

• Testing the incident response plan through a cybersecurity drill.

By the end of the project, students should demonstrate:

• Understanding of company values
• Identification of an appropriate incident response process
• Recommendations for our incident response plan

Bonus steps would include:

• Conducting a cybersecurity drill to identify areas of improvement in the plan

Final deliverables should include

• A final report.
• A 10-minute presentation.

Students will connect directly with us for mentorship throughout the project. We will be able to provide answers to questions such as:

• Our mission and vision statements
• Our current incident response procedures
• Input on choices, problems or anything else the students might encounter.

In order to complete this project, students can self-teach, but it is beneficial to be familiar with:

• Needs assessments
• Incident response plans
• Information management practices

Again, students can complete this project without any of the prior knowledge listed here. Students will be expected to research and learn more about the above as the project goes along.

We can provide students with:

• A walkthrough / tutorial of our current incident response procedures
• Examples of needs assessments and incident response plans