Developing Deployment Proposal

Many organizations use graphical representation for discussing important proposals. The presentation of your recommendation about investing in an appropriate IT solution to the stakeholders is equally important to the recommendation generating process. A very good investment recommendation may not receive stakeholder's support and subsequent approval for resources to implement it if it is not communicated effectively. Therefore, you should be conversant in presenting your recommendation to the stakeholders in a convincing manner.

To prepare for the Project in this unit:

• Download the Sample Presentation Template located in the Learning Resources for this unit.
• Consider that you are communicating to the CIO-level audience; your presentation should be technical and provide a business case for your proposed project to address the gap you identified in the identity and access management area, but it should also be to the point.

For the Project in this unit, use the results of your previous identity and access management tool evaluation and present those results to the management of your chosen organization. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation (12-15 slides), summarizing the results of your evaluation. Use the template provided with the Learning Resources in this unit to prepare your presentation. You may make limited modifications to the template in order to make your presentation effective.

Required Resources Readings

• Brotby, K. (2009). Information security governance: A practical development and implementation approach.  Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  • Chapter 8, "Risk Management Objectives"
    • Section 8.3.1, "Recovery Time Objectives"
    In this section, you are introduced to the recovery time objectives. You will explore the organizational considerations for determining such objectives.
• Hawkins, S. M., Yen, D. C., & Chou, D.C. (2000). Disaster recovery planning: A strategy for data security.Information Management & Computer Security,8(5), 222-230. Information Management and Computer Security Volume 8 by Hawkins, Yen, & Chow.  Copyright 2000 by EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED. Reprinted by permission of EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED via the Copyright Clearance Center. 
  In this paper, you will investigate the importance of disaster recovery planning in the business world. You will also explore a strategic planning process that an organization could follow to develop its own disaster recovery plan.
• Document: Sample Presentation Template (PowerPoint file)Note: You will use this document to complete this unit's Project.

Optional Resources

• Bahan, C. (2003). The disaster recovery plan. Retrieved fromhttp://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/recovery/disaster-recovery-plan_1164
  In this article, you will be introduced to the important aspects of a disaster recovery plan.
• Devlen, A. (2003, March 10). 12 key elements of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery program.ITManagementNews. Retrieved from http://archive.itmanagementnews.com/articles/0310ad.html
  In this article, you will explore the essential elements that an organization's disaster recovery program should include in order to be effective.