3.Critically evaluate various security technologies
4. Evaluate and discuss risk control and risk management measures.
Word count (if relevant) 1,200
Assessment task details – provide a description of the task. For this assignment you should imagine that you are the Information Security and
Risk Manager for a large organisation of your choice!
You should produce a report for the executive team of your organisation
containing the following elements to help them understand the security elements
of your organisation:
1. The potential cyber risks for your Industry based on global data and
research.
In this section you should research your selected organisation and the industry
that it sits within to understand the cyber risks that face that specific industry or
sector.
2. The threat landscape for your organisation
In this section you should research your selected organisation to understand
the threat landscape faced by that organisation. The threat landscape means
the entire scope of potential and cybersecurity threats affecting user groups,
organizations, specific industries, or a particular time. Within this section you are
free to make sensible assumptions but please clearly state what assumptions
you have made.
3. Legal, Ethical and Professional issues related to the identified
organisation and industry risks should they become a reality for the
organisation in question.
In this area you should discuss the potential impacts of the threats,
vulnerabilities and risks you have identified in earlier sections from a legal,
ethical and professional standpoint based on your research.
You should end your report with a brief conclusion or executive summary of
your findings.
Support your arguments and discussion with relevant examples and references.
Your report should be 1200 (+/- 10%) words and show evidence of research in
the available, relevant literature and you should use the lEEE referencing
system, supplying full details of all references used.
Guidance: The purpose of the assignment is for you to conduct an in-depth
investigation into information security and risk measures. Use any relevant
Information
information from your research, reading, allocated papers, lectures and notes from your
portfolios to support your work.
