Project Part 1 Task 2: Risk Assessment Plan

  

Purpose

This project provides an opportunity to apply the competencies gained in the lessons of this course to develop a risk management plan for a fictitious organization to replace its outdated plan.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

You will gain an overall understanding of risk management, its importance, and critical processes required when developing a formal risk management plan for an organization.

Required Source Information and Tools

The following tools and resources that will be needed to complete this project:

  • Course textbook
  • Internet      access for research

Deliverables

As discussed in this course, risk management is an important process for all organizations. This is particularly true in information systems, which provides critical support for organizational missions. The heart of risk management is a formal risk management plan. The project activities described in this document allow you to fulfill the role of an employee participating in the risk management process in a specific business situation.

  

Submission Requirements

All project submissions should follow this format:

  • Format: Microsoft Word or compatible
  • Font: Arial, 10-point,      double-space
  • Citation Style: Your school’s preferred style      guide
  • Minimum 2 pages per task

Scenario

You are an information technology (IT) intern working for Health Network, Inc. (Health Network), a fictitious health services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Health Network has over 600 employees throughout the organization and generates $500 million USD in annual revenue. The company has two additional locations in Portland, Oregon and Arlington, Virginia, which support a mix of corporate operations. Each corporate facility is located near a co-location data center, where production systems are located and managed by third-party data center hosting vendors. 

Company Products 

Health Network has three main products: HNetExchange, HNetPay, and HNetConnect.

HNetExchange is the primary source of revenue for the company. The service handles secure electronic medical messages that originate from its customers, such as large hospitals, which are then routed to receiving customers such as clinics.

HNetPay is a Web portal used by many of the company’s HNetExchange customers to support the management of secure payments and billing. The HNetPay Web portal, hosted at Health Network production sites, accepts various forms of payments and interacts with credit-card processing organizations much like a Web commerce shopping cart.

HNetConnect is an online directory that lists doctors, clinics, and other medical facilities to allow Health Network customers to find the right type of care at the right locations. It contains doctors’ personal information, work addresses, medical certifications, and types of services that the doctors and clinics offer. Doctors are given credentials and are able to update the information in their profile. Health Network customers, which are the hospitals and clinics, connect to all three of the company’s products using HTTPS connections. Doctors and potential patients are able to make payments and update their profiles using Internet-accessible HTTPS Web sites.

Information Technology Infrastructure Overview

Health Network operates in three production data centers that provide high availability across the company’s products. The data centers host about 1,000 production servers, and Health Network maintains 650 corporate laptops and company-issued mobile devices for its employees.

Threats Identified

Upon review of the current risk management plan, the following threats were identified:

· Loss of company data due to hardware being removed from production systems

· Loss of company information on lost or stolen company-owned assets, such as mobile devices and laptops

· Loss of customers due to production outages caused by various events, such as natural disasters, change management, unstable software, and so on

· Internet threats due to company products being accessible on the Internet

· Insider threats

· Changes in regulatory landscape that may impact operations 

Management Request

Senior management at Health Network has determined that the existing risk management plan for the organization is out of date and a new risk management plan must be developed. Because of the importance of risk management to the organization, senior management is committed to and supportive of the project to develop a new plan. You have been assigned to develop this new plan.

Additional threats other than those described previously may be discovered when re-evaluating the current threat landscape during the risk assessment phase.

The budget for this project has not been defined due to senior management’s desire to react to any and all material risks that are identified within the new plan. Given the company’s annual revenue, reasonable expectations can be determined.

  

Project Part 1 Task 2: Risk Assessment Plan

After creating an initial draft of the risk management plan, the second part of the assigned project requires you to create a draft of the risk assessment (RA) plan. To do so, you must:

  1. Develop an introduction to the plan      explaining its purpose and importance.
  2. Create an outline for the RA plan.
  3. Define the scope and boundaries for the RA      plan.
  4. Research and summarize RA approaches.
  5. Identify the key roles and      responsibilities of individuals and departments within the organization as      they pertain to risk assessment.
  6. Develop a proposed schedule for the RA      process.
  7. Create a professional report detailing the      information above as an initial draft of the RA plan.

Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics

  • Did the student demonstrate an      understanding of the competencies covered in the course relating to risk assessments?
  • Did the student include all important      components of a RA plan in the outline?
  • Did the student demonstrate good research,      reasoning, and decision-making skills in identifying key components and      methodologies?
  • Did the student create a professional,      well-developed draft with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?

need help in homework

 The reading this week discusses strategy and how ERM can be integrated with an organization’s overall strategy. Prepare a research paper on some of the various issues, protocols, methods, frameworks you found and discuss how – if possible – organizations can use ERM as strategy. It is perfectly acceptable if you deem ERM cannot be used as strategy, just back up your claim with scholarly research and justifications. 

Can someone help me with the term paper

 The topic i have selected:

Abstract:

I will be going with the subject “Fraud detection using Data Mining” Fraud affirmation is an approach to manage shield others from being attacked by designers or to get secure from the cash desperado and cheats with the assistance of progression. Information Mining (DM) blueprint systems in recognizing firms that issue fraudulent financial statements (FFS) and manages the obvious affirmation of parts related to FFS. This evaluation explores the settlement of Decision Trees, Neural Networks, and Bayesian Belief Networks in the prominent proof of sham spending summaries. The information vector is made out of degrees got from budgetary outlines.

Introduction:

Data uncovering is looking for secured, significant, and possibly supportive models in huge enlightening lists. Data Mining is connected to finding unsuspected/already dark associations among the data. 

It is a multi-disciplinary fitness that usages AI, estimations, AI, and database advancement.

Types of data mining

Relational database 

Data warehouse

Text mining data mining

Distributed database

Operational database

End-user database

Kirkos, E., Spathis, C., & Manolopoulos, Y. (2007). Data mining techniques for the detection of fraudulent financial statements. Expert systems with applications, 32(4), 995-1003

Discussion

 

This week we explored the concept of Tokenization.  Three important protocols discussed were Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC), Policy-Backed Token (PBT) and Open Asset Protocol (OAP).  Compare and contrast these three protocols and explain which industries can benefit the most from each of these protocols.

  •  (please cite properly in APA)

Real time systems

Many systems in organizations especially the service organizations are moving to a real time system – where data is captured on a real time basis. For example, traffic light/signal data are recorded continuously (actually triggered by an event) and when a driver disobeys the light, the data is recorded and then used to send tickets to the driver with 

a link in the ticket for a video clip of the incident where the traffic law was broken.

In 80 words or more what other real time systems that are important to organizations?

Termpaper on Rockwell Automation – Factory Talk (SCADA)

 

Term Paper Requirements

REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING

Each student will be required to write their own research paper – no teaming, partnering, or study group papers are permitted. This is an individual assignment and copying or plagiarizing will not be tolerated and will be subject to University disciplinary action up to and including a failing grade for this course. 

The paper shall be at least five (5) and no more than ten (10) pages in length excluding figures, tables, and references. The paper shall be formatted using an 11-point font of either Arial, Helvetica, or Times Roman type using 1″ margins on the sides and double-spacing between lines with 0.5″ indentation on first line of paragraphs. 

The paper shall be written using the APA style guide seventh edition published in October 2019. Online guidance can be viewed at https://apastyle.apa.org.

All tables and figures shall be captioned and specifically referenced in the body of the document. All references shall be stated and included as endnotes in this paper. Citations must meet the following requirements:

  • No more than two (2) citations shall be from Wikipedia
  • At least two (2) references shall be from United States government sites (e.g. CISA, NIST)
  • At least two (2) references from vendor web (html) or printed (pdf) material
  • At least two (2) references shall be from independent sources including but not limited to
    • News Media Outlets (e.g. Reuters, Washington Post, Wired, CSOOnline)
    • Industry Publications (e.g. Automation, ISSSource, Control)
    • Trade Sources (e.g. Oil and Gas Journal, ChemWeek, PharmaTimes)
    • Security Solution Providers (e.g. McAfee, Trend Micro, Dragos, Claroty) to name several.

A template has been provided meeting these requirements.

A list of 11 different vendors and systems have been offered. Selection begins on October 6, 2020 (Week 7) and is expected to be completed by November 17, 2020 (Week 13). You are free to change your selection until the cut-off date. No more than three (3) students can choose the same vendor and system topic, so all selections may not be available at any given time. Failure to complete the selection process early could reduce the number of choices available and not provide sufficient time to complete the term paper and associated presentation.

You will also be required to prepare a short PowerPoint presentation summarizing your paper suitable for presentation. This presentation is expected to have no more than one (1) slide summarizing each of the subject areas aligning with the paper and should be limited to 15 minutes. A PowerPoint template has been prepared and is available for download.

Your paper must be submitted by 7:00pm (end of class) on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 (Week 14), and your presentation must be submitted by 8:00am on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 (Week 15). Eight (8) students will be randomly selected to present their presentation via Zoom Meeting during class time on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Drawing will occur on December 1, and students will be notified by 10:00am.

The term research paper and associated presentation comprise 20% of your overall course grade and will be assigned a numerical percentage grade based on the following scale:

     A = 90% – 100%
     B = 80% – 89%
     C = 70% – 79%
     D = 60% – 69%
     F = 59% or less

Grading for term research paper and associated presentation will be based on the following metrics:

     20% = Ideas and Analysis
     20% = Organization
     20% = Development and Support
     10% = Style
     20% = Mechanics
     10% = Presentation

Spelling and grammatical correctness will be used as marking against Mechanics. Use of current review editors such as those included with Microsoft Word are strongly encouraged.

 

CONTENTS AND STRUCTURE

The term research paper and associated presentation should be logically divided into sections that follow sound research paper style and address each of the following areas. You are free to organization the paper and presentation as appropriate, however a template has been provided for both the paper and presentation to help start the initial paper structure. The section titles (paper) and slide titles (presentation) in the templates are for reference only.

Your paper and presentation shall address and develop each of the following items:

  1. System overview (textual) and architecture (graphical) covering devices and network topology explaining the function of each of the key assets
  2. Communication protocols used by the system
  3. Industry sectors that use the system
  4. Vulnerabilities publicly disclosed for the system and the publication of any exploitation packages
  5. Potential or actual impact of the vulnerabilities discovered to the industry sectors served
  6. Cyber security measures taken by the vendor to secure the system
  7. Additional cyber security measures that could be taken by the end-user user if the vendor recommendations are not feasible (e.g. an upgrade could not be performed in a timely manner)