CIS 333 Assignment 1 Prof. Yamaguchi Donavan Mansfield Strayer University 13 May 2018 To: ABC Inc. From: IT Security Officer CC: Company’s Manager Date: 05/13/2018 RE: Developing Security Policies, Standards, and Practices of the Company Business Environment, Risk, and Reasoning A business environment is defined as the internal and external factors that affect the way in which an organization operates. These factors include management, customers, employees, business regulations, supply, and demand. However, the term ‘business environment' indicates the external institutions, factors and forces are cannot be controlled by business, and they influence how a business enterprise functions. Such factors include the competitors, customers, government, suppliers and the social, legal, political and technological factors (Peltier, 2016). Both the internal and external influences affect business in either a negative or a positive way. Therefore, to control the factors affecting business, a security policy has to be created to control risks that may face an organization such as theft of the company’s products and services. In every organization, there is need of having a security policy has they help in playing various roles. One of the reasons behind the creation of a security policy in an …show more content…
All locks electronic access cards, keys, and access codes are parts of the Mall's Company and will be issued to every employee depending on their needs to access various areas. Each company’s facility will be locked at all times in a day with exception of when the employees are passing through the facility. No person is supposed to give their key to any another person without permission from the security officer or any other relevant person (Coffee & Henderson, 2015). All electronic cards and keys must be taken back to the company upon termination of an
Assignment-7 Group Policies Group Policies: Group policies specifies settings for users and computers which includes security settings, software installation, computer startup and shut down, registry based policy settings and folder redirection. Group policies are responsible for controlling the working environment of users and computers accounts. It provides the configuration and management of the user’s settings, operating system and applications in a working environment. It is responsible for the user’s actions in a computer like what a user can and cannot do on the computer for example enforce users to have a complex password to prevent the network from being accessed by unidentified users. Group policies when properly planned and implemented
Marques Underwood INSS 391 Security and the Future With the transition of companies leaning towards advancing through the usage of big data, cybersecurity and the trends in technology are creating an increase in threats. The goal is to protect the databases and devices used at these companies before they are hacked and compromised for unwanted reasons. We’ll see the general concerns with security in the IT field, and steps that specific companies are taking to prevent and adopt to the landscape of the future in security. Devices are increasing at a rapid pace these days, meaning the more data is being expanding.
FISMA act gives a great importance to risk based rules that helps in defining cost-effective security solutions to the organization. FISMA standard should be executed with the help of senior security officials, chief information security officers and security director who can help to conduct different annual reviews of the organization`s information security program and produce the report in front of management about its findings. The management will use this data in order to identify different security loopholes and apply the proper security measures in order to make the organization security compliant. It`s
The purpose of this policy is to outline the acceptable use of computer equipment at ABC Technologies. These rules are in place to protect the employee and ABC Technologies assets. Inappropriate use exposes ABC Technologies to risks including virus attacks. Inappropriate use of ABC Technologies resources will not be tolerated. Scope:
Implement a policy where employees must adjust their passwords every sixty days and that they must set a screen lock out when they step away from their workstation 4. True or false: COBIT P09 risk management control objectives focus on assessment and management of IT risk. True 5. What is the name of the organization that defined the COBIT P09 Risk Management Framework?
1. Policies governing the network insecurities which include Email and communications policy, Remote Access Policy, BYOD Policy and Encryption policy 2. User accounts management through training and assigning of user roles depending on their access levels to information in the organization. 3. Setting up workstations and assigning every user a workstation.
The Information Security Manager reports in their capacity to the CEO. Company officers, executives, directors, employees, contractors and third party service providers cooperate and work with the Information Security Manager to ensure the protection of customer’s non-public information and Licensee’s Information Assets. Policies, such as Enterprise Antivirus Program, Network Access, Software Development Security Standards, Physical Security, Vendor Manangmenet Ativirus, Mobile Computing/Remote Access, Inromation Security Risk Assessment, Social Media, Data Loss Prevention, and Secuiryt Incident Response Policies have been implemented to protect customer’s non-public personal information and company Information
This password should only be accessed by members of staff that need to retrieve relevant information relating to a subject or individual. When handling paper documentation, you have to ensure that the documents are filed and locked away in a secure cabinet, within an office that only staff are able to access. 2.3 Describe features of manual and electronic information storage systems that help ensure
The first step that the auditor should take is to gather as much information about any security procedures and policies that may have been in use following the information collected from the records available. Since each policy may have a different aspect that it works on, the findings from the audit may present evidence that may be vital in identifying the existing procedures or the absence of any policies or procedures. The existence of policies and procedures enables a company to reduce the occurrence or the impacts of a given risk. The lack of such policies may lead to reduced risk management
P8.4. a. Preventive controls such as authentication so anyone trying accessing the system has to provide credentials and verify their identity, encryption so sensitive information cannot be accessed, and have a strong internal environment that educates employees on security measures. Detective controls such as log analysis could be used to show determine if someone is trying to log on to a system and is unsuccessful. Corrective controls such as having an effective CIRT that can access the laptop and block or delete important information so the theft cannot access the laptop.
Part A Macro environment is important factor affecting the development of enterprises. A macro environment is the condition that exists in the economy as a whole, rather than in a specific sector or region.(Macro Environment n.d.) Cultures, politics, technology, nature, economy and demographic are the six major forces in the company 's macro-environment.(Kotler & Armstrong 2014, p96) Political factors Political factors include government regulations and legal issues and define both formal and informal rules.(PEST Analysis n.d.) All the companies have to follow these rules.
After numerous major data breaches and ongoing discussions about credit card security, keeping the different security standards straight can be a challenge. Consumers should understand how EMV and PCI standards are different, yet still work toward the same general security goals. How EMV Works Image via Flickr by benwatts As of October 1, 2015, merchants are encouraged to adopt Europay, MasterCard, Visa (EMV) standards, or they may be liable for fraudulent charges made with stolen cardholder information. EMV standards drastically increase the security of credit card transactions around the world.
Political environment includes laws, government agencies, and pressure group that influence and limit various organizations and individuals in a given society. Economic environment consists of economic factors that affect consumer purchasing power and spending patterns. Social factors include the demographic and cultural aspects of the external macro environment. In which demography is the study of human population in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics; cutural environment consist of institution of other forces that affect society’s basic values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors. Therefore, these factors have an impact on customer’s needs and size of potential markets.
Describe three of the environmental influences an organization faces. Provide one example of each and describe how an organization is impacted, either positively or negatively, by each: There are five main external environment forces which can influence an organization (Ashim gupta, 2009). They are technology, competition, resources, consumers, and laws and regulations. I am going to discuss consumers, competition, and resources. The first environmental influence is customers.
Micro Environment consists of factors or elements close to business that have a direct impact on the business operations and success. It also affects the business performance and various other decisions that are critical to business. Some of the micro-environmental factors include customers, employees, distribution channels, suppliers, media and the general public. Macro Environment are the major external and uncontrollable factors that influence an organization 's decision making, and affect its performance and strategies. The macro-environment consists of forces that originate outside of an organization and generally cannot be altered by actions of the organization.