Assignment 1 (Essay)

Objectives:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the skills required to work in nontraditional and virtual working environments by planning security measures for information systems.

• Demonstrate an understanding of change on organisations in the global environment and the impact of these on organisational systems by planning business continuity.

Identify your own "real-world" organisation. If you do not have access to a "real-world" organisation, a fictitious organisation based on a real world organisation will be acceptable.

Finding a "real-world" organisation:

• If you are linked to an organisation (government or private organisation for an example) ask what the need for improving the security level, choose the highest priority and work around that.

• Do you have any family or friends involved in business organisation, or do you know anyone with a business organisation? Ask them about the security level that they need (keep it simple, you can't solve all their problems).

• Otherwise do you have any friends with ideas for a business organisation? What would be the major security level that they need for this organisation?

• Do not try to solve all the security problems for the organisation in the few weeks you have and focus on one security level.

TASK 1: Organisation Background

Briefly introduce your organisation in terms of name, the industry it operates within, products and services, clients, suppliers, major competitors and competing products/services, major processes, ownership, key personnel and key issues/challenges.

TASK 2: Time Management Plan
You are required to provide an effective time management plan that will lead to successful submission of all your assessments (Research paper 1, 2, and 3), and the completion of the required activities that included in these assessments. The following table outlines each of the subsequent assessments and required activities that need to be completed for each assessment:

Research paper 1

• Report on the current security state of the selected organisation.
• Suggest improvements to level of security in organisation.

Research paper 2

• Based on the size of the selected organisation (small, medium, large) you are asked to assist in developing a security program.
• Provide a plan to make these changes incorporating training requirements.

Research paper 3

• Within this assessment, you are addressing controlling risk, protection mechanisms, personnel and security, law and ethics
specifically.
• Provide the organisation with the necessary guidelines for implementation.
• You are also required to review the PRT Network Monitor that you can find on this web site http://www.paessler.com/prtg.

TASK 2.1: Work Breakdown Structure

Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) for your project with date, and summary of project activities. Use a table with columns for activity number, date, activity name, activity description, planned action, status, and any other notes. The purpose of WBS is to identify each task in your project and include an estimated duration.

TASK 2.2: Task-Sequencing Approaches
After WBS has been designed, students need to present the project details that are mentioned in the WBS using one of the following Task-Sequencing Approaches:

• Network Scheduling
• PERT Chart

• Gantt Chart