Assignment
Case Project 1: Read the following Case Study and answer the questions at the end in paragraph form.
Bay Pointe Security Consulting (BPSC) provides security consulting services to a wide range of businesses, individuals, schools, and organizations. BPSC has hired you as a technology student to help them with a new project and provide real-world experience to students who are interested in the security field.
Built-Right Construction is a successful developer of commercial real estate projects. Built-Right has caught the attention of Premiere Construction, a national builder, who wants to purchase Built-Right to make them a subsidiary. Premiere Construction has contracted with BPSC to help them provide training to the Built-Right office staff regarding best practices of access control. BPSC has asked you for assistance on this project.
Premiere Construction has asked you how best to handle the staff's objections regarding these practices, because some of the staff members see them as restrictive. Create a memo to Premiere Construction on how you would address those objections in the next round of training.
Case Project 2: Read the following Case Study and answer the questions at the end in paragraph form.
Bay Pointe Security Consulting (BPSC) provides security consulting services to a wide range of businesses, individuals, schools, and organizations. BPSC has hired you as a technology student to help them with a new project and provide real-world experience to students who are interested in the security field.
Pack ‘n Go (PnG) offers to customers large portable storage units delivered to their home that the customers pack with their personal items. PnG then transports the units locally or over long distance to the end destination. Recently PnG's customer information system, which allows customers to reserve a portable storage unit, was compromised by an attacker. It appears that the attack was the result of a PnG employee's home computer that was successfully attacked and then was used to attack the PnG computers. The result was that storage units were delivered to the driveways of homes where the customers never requested them, which resulted in a large amount of unfavorable media attention. Pack ‘n Go has asked BPSC to make a presentation to the staff about securing their staff's home computers, and BPSC has asked you to help the company train its staff on the basics of host security.
One of PnG's IT staff has contacted you. She has been reading about DLP systems in a trade magazine and wants to know if PnG should look into purchasing a system. Create a memo to PnG's IT department about DLP, explaining what its features are and whether it would be beneficial to the company.