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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gained in the lessons of this course to develop a risk management plan for a fictitious organization to replace its outdated plan.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 provide 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.

The project is structured as follows:

Project Part

Deliverable

Project  Part 1

Task  1: Risk Management Plan

Task  2: Risk Assessment Plan

Task  3: Risk Mitigation Plan 

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?

 Do you feel that countries and companies need explicit strategies for technology development, given the tremendous amount of largely spontaneous creativity that occurs today, often in areas where new technologies are not expected to exert a great influence.  Why or why not? 

• Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail

1 page 3 questions

• Follow the instructions in the Word document
• Download the “Flow Chart Assignment” file
• Flowchart the processes using Word and its available shapes
• You can view a tutorial for creating flowcharts here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VR7iBImDB4&feature=youtu.be
• Refer to figure 11-4 in your book for help on this assignment
• Use only the symbols listed on figure 11-4
• Upload the finished flow charts to Canvas for grading

Previous
 

Compose and submit well-written paragraphs that contain a minimum of 200 words, which address the following: 

Assume you are a network administrator in your organization, describe the most cost-effective ways to secure your organization’s connection to the outside world. Briefly discuss the risk assessment components necessary to secure the organization’s asset (in this case, data).

The post should include adequate citations and references that adhere strictly to the APA format.

Need literature review for 40 – 70 pages document. The document is based on cybersecurity.

•Your team will select a big data analytics project that is introduced to an organization of your choice … please address the following items: 

•Provide a background of the company chosen. 

•Determine the problems or opportunities that that this project will solve. What is the value of the project? 

•Describe the impact of the problem. In other words, is the organization suffering financial losses? Are there opportunities that are not exploited? 

•Provide a clear description regarding the metrics your team will use to measure performance. Please include a discussion pertaining to the key performance indicators (KPIs). 

•Recommend a big data tool that will help you solve your problem or exploit the opportunity, such as Hadoop, Cloudera, MongoDB, or Hive. 

•Evaluate the data requirements. Here are questions to consider: What type of data is needed? Where can you find the data? How can the data be collected? How can you verify the integrity of the data? 

•Discuss the gaps that you will need to bridge. Will you need help from vendors to do this work? Is it necessary to secure the services of other subject matter experts (SMEs)? 

•What type of project management approach will you use this initiative? Agile? Waterfall? Hybrid? Please provide a justification for the selected approach. 

•Provide a summary and conclusion. 

What are baseline security requirements that should be applied to the design and implementation of applications, databases, systems, network infrastructure, and information processing when considering cloud computing within an enterprise risk management framework?

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Find a recent article that relates to a software that has malfunctioned and caused either serious injury, death, or loss of revenue. Summarize the article and discuss whether you believe this will impact the adoption of this type of technology.

Post your reply  at midnight. Your response should be at least 250 words and appropriately cite your resources.

Find a peer-reviewed scholarly journal article discussing electronic innovation and the government. Complete a review of the article by writing a 2-3 page overview of the article. This will be a detailed summary of the journal article, including concepts discussed and findings. Additionally, find one other source (it does not have to be a peer-reviewed journal article) that substantiates the findings in the article you are reviewing. 

You should use the Google Scholar to find these types of articles (https://scholar.google.com/ )

Once you find the article, you will read it and write a review of it.  This is considered a research article review.

Your paper should meet these requirements: 

• Be approximately three to four pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. 
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

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