COMP11082 Incident Response Assessment Brief 2025/26 | UWS

Published: 26 Dec, 2025

Category	Assignment	Subject	Computer Science
University	University of the West of Scotland (UWS)	Module Title	COMP11082 Incident Response

Academic Year	2026

COMP11082 Assessment Brief

Title	Incident Response
Session	2025/26	Status	Published
Code	COMP11082	SCQF Level	11
Credit Points	10	ECTS (European Credit Transfer Scheme)	5
School	Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences
Module Coordinator	Althaff Mohideen

Summary Of Module

The module provides students with detailed understanding of the methodologies, practices and techniques required to respond to a network intrusion or security breach and will ensure students understand all factors involved in the required for situational preparedness, management and resilience principles.

By using reflection techniques and case study reviews, students will develop a deeper understanding of the processes required to deal with a security breach.

This module will work to develop a number of the key ‘I am UWS’ Graduate Attributes to make those who complete this module:

Universal

Critical Thinker
Ethically-minded
Research-minded

Work Ready

Problem-Solver
Effective Communicator
Ambitious

Successfull

Autonomous
Resilient
Driven

Learning Outcomes

L1	Demonstrate a critical understanding of the theories and concepts associated with the management of security breaches by the Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT).
L2	Apply knowledge, skills and understanding to design systems that fully utilise tools such as the SANS 6Step Incident Management Model.
L3	Critically analyse the effectiveness of practical implementations of incident management and response.
L4	N/A
L5	N/A

Employability Skills And Personal Development Planning (PDP) Skills

SCQF Headings

During completion of this module, there will be an opportunity to achieve core skills in:

Knowledge and Understanding (K and U)

SCQF 11

Students will learn systematic and comprehensive knowledge of Incident Response. Students are expected to be familiar with the key technologies and techniques and their application in practice.

Practice: Applied

Knowledge and

Understanding

SCQF 11

Students will gain in-depth, comprehensive understanding and critical awareness of knowledge of Incident Response, and apply this in planning, developing and implementing, capture a response to a network security event. They will also develop capability to apply a range of standard and specialised research skills, tools/software,

	development kit and related techniques in response to application requirements for their written assignment and lab tasks.
Generic Cognitive skills	SCQF 11 To complete their written reports and laboratory tasks, students will first build skills to integrate information and apply knowledge from various sources including technology advances informed by research and industry.
Communication, ICT and Numeracy Skills	SCQF 11 Working in interacting groups, students will develop communication skills as well as the ability to write technical reports and documentation.
Autonomy, Accountability and Working with Others	SCQF 11 Each student will generate a comprehensive report summarizing his/her finding for a given scenario.

Learning and Teaching
In line with current learning and teaching principles, a 20-credit module includes 200 learning hours, normally including a minimum of 36 contact hours and maximum of 48 contact hours.
Learning Activities During completion of this module, the learning activities undertaken to achieve the module learning outcomes are stated below:	Student Learning Hours (Note: Learning hours include both contact hours and hours spent on other learning activities)
Lecture / Core Content Delivery	7
Tutorial / Synchronous Support Activity	7
Laboratory / Practical Demonstration / Workshop	14
Independent Study	72
Please select
Please select
TOTAL	100

Indicative Resources

The following materials form essential underpinning for the module content and ultimately for the learning outcomes:

Steve Anson (2019). Applied Incident Response. Wiley

Luttgens, J. (2014) 3rd Ed. Incident Response & Computer Forensics. McGraw-Hill Education

Murdoch, D. (2014) 2nd Ed. Blue Team Handbook: Incident Response Edition: A condensed field guide for the Cyber Security Incident Responder. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Roberts, S and Brown, R. (2016) Intelligence-Driven Incident Response. O’Reillly

Please ensure the list is kept short and current. Essential resources should be included, broader resources should be kept for module handbooks / Aula VLE.

Resources should be listed in Right Harvard referencing style or agreed professional body deviation and in alphabetical order.

Oracle Virtual Box along with guest additions and VirtualBox Extension Pack.

Assessment Outcomes

Assessment (also refer to Assessment Outcomes Grids below)

Assessment 1

Coursework 1 (50%)

Assessment 2

Coursework 2 (50%)

Assessment 3

(N.B. (i) Assessment Outcomes Grids for the module (one for each component) can be found below which clearly demonstrate how the learning outcomes of the module will be assessed.

(ii) An indicative schedule listing approximate times within the academic calendar when assessment is likely to feature will be provided within the Student Module Handbook.)

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