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Incident Response & Crisis Management Lab

Build end-to-end incident response plans, simulate real breach scenarios, and evaluate response effectiveness across technical and operational layers.

6 Weeks
Vinit Sinha

Instructor

Vinit Sinha

What you'll learn

Build an incident response plan aligned with NIST SP 800-61 and ISO 27035
Define roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths for IR teams
Develop playbooks for common incident types: ransomware, phishing, insider threat
Run tabletop exercises and red/blue team simulations
Collect and preserve digital evidence for forensic investigation
Conduct post-incident reviews and drive process improvement

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of cybersecurity concepts and common attack types
  • Familiarity with IT operations or security operations centre (SOC) work
  • No prior IR experience required

About this course

Security incidents are inevitable — what separates prepared organisations from unprepared ones is a tested, well-rehearsed incident response plan. This course guides you through developing a comprehensive IR programme: from defining roles and playbooks, to running tabletop exercises, to conducting post-incident reviews that drive continuous improvement. You'll work through real breach scenarios and leave with a ready-to-deploy IR framework.

Course curriculum

24 lessons
  • The incident response lifecycle (NIST and SANS models)
  • Incident classification and severity triage
  • Building an IR team: roles, RACI, and escalation paths
  • Legal and regulatory considerations in incident response

Your instructor

Vinit Sinha

Vinit Sinha

Director — Cybersecurity (APAC), Mastercard

4.8 instructor rating

Vinit Sinha leads cybersecurity for Mastercard's APAC region, where he designed and runs the Cyber Risk Quantification programme and directs region-wide cyber crisis simulation exercises. He is Immediate Past President of ISACA New Delhi and an EC-Council Advisory Board member, with prior leadership roles at Pine Labs (Head of InfoSec, Cyber & Data Privacy), Wipro (Practice Head — Cybersecurity), and EXL (AVP Corporate Audit) spanning payment security, GRC, DevSecOps and information security. He holds OSCP, CSX-P, CDPSE and CCNA Cyber Ops certifications, and is an IIM Calcutta alumnus.