Employing information assurance best practices will ensure a firm is able to eliminate hierarchical structures, become more flat, and have greater customer touch points by leveraging the correct information at the right time. Successful firms will maintain an established information assurance plan and posture that is implemented and reviewed on a weekly basis.

The ability to properly assign roles is crucial to the design of an effective information assurance plan. Without clearly identified roles and responsibilities, the key members of an organization would not have a clear understanding of what was expected of them. The establishment of roles and responsibilities assists each member to communicate clearly and effectively throughout the organization.

Prompt: In Module Four, you will submit your roles and responsibilities portion of the final project. Your submission should answer the following questions: Who are the key leaders of the organization specific to how their responsibilities are connected to the security of the organization's information? You must also identify key ethical considerations. What are the ramifications of key leaders not properly accounting for ethical and legal considerations? What are the key components of information assurance as they relate to individual roles and responsibilities within the information assurance plan? For example, examine the current policies as they relate to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

Information Security Roles and Responsibilities-

a) Analyze the role of the key leaders within the organization specific to how their responsibilities are connected to the security of the organization's information. What is the relationship between these roles?

b) Evaluate key ethical and legal considerations related to information assurance that must be taken into account by the key leaders within the organization. What are the ramifications of key leaders not properly accounting for ethical and legal considerations?

c) What are the key components of information assurance as they relate to individual roles and responsibilities within the information assurance plan? For example, examine the current policies as they relate to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.