For this assignment, students will be placed into the role of an IT consultant whose task is to evaluate an existing organization's security protocols. Once the protocols have been analyzed, students will synthesize this knowledge to provide insight into the likelihood of certain threats occurring. The skills acquired from this exercise will prove to be beneficial during the final stages of designing the information assurance plan.

Prompt: In your role as a highly paid consultant, you are given a list of potential threats to and vulnerabilities of the current communication security protocols of an organization. You are asked to provide quantitative data to measure the likelihood that any of these threats will actually occur for the information assets of the client. Conduct research and describe resources you found that might provide insight into measuring the likelihood that some of the threats would actually occur. In the explanation, include whether you see a trend in resources that might indicate a specific industry is particularly involved in gathering this kind of data. Additionally, evaluate which communication security protocols are more effective and provide an explanation.

Submission: Your responses for the prompt must be submitted as two to three paragraphs and as a Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.