E016: Risk Management and Information Technology

Risk Management and Information Technology approaches an organization's risk needs from a management perspective — governance, mitigation strategy, and incident response, rather than hands-on technical controls.

What E016 covers

The course approaches an organization's risk needs from a management perspective, enabling students to understand how risk management protects an organization's sensitive data, intellectual property, and digital assets from threats and breaches.

This knowledge includes understanding governance structures, developing a mitigation strategy that includes risks, and creating an incident response plan.

The E016 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to develop a risk mitigation strategy and incident response plan for a given organization, addressing governance structure.

Key topics in E016

• Risk management governance structures
• Mitigation strategy development
• Incident response planning

Writing tips for E016

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for E016 are graded against a fixed rubric — every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.

Ground strategy recommendations in the specific scenario, not generic best practice

Management and strategy courses like E016 typically hand you a realistic organizational scenario (a company profile, a set of constraints, existing systems). Evaluators are checking whether your recommendation genuinely fits THAT organization's situation — a textbook-generic answer that could apply to any company usually loses rubric points for lacking scenario specificity.

Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission

There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school — a stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for each E016 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with E016

Students sometimes list generic risks without connecting them to the specific organization's actual governance structure and assets — the course wants a mitigation strategy genuinely grounded in the given organization's context.

How GradeEssays helps with E016

Share your organizational scenario and rubric, and your writer will build a mitigation strategy and incident response plan grounded in that organization's specific governance and risk profile.

Prerequisites and program context

E016 has no prerequisites.

• Master of Science, Information Technology
• Master of Science, Information Technology - Product Management

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