Held More is a small agricultural company that produces and sells fertilizer products. the company operatesthroutgh its headquartes in a small town in indiana. outside its headquarters, there are two large production facilities-one in nebraska and onde in oklahoma. futhermore, yieldMore employs sales force personnel in every state in the US to serve its customers locally.
the company has 3 servers located at its headquaters-active Directory Server, a Linux application server, and an Oracle database server. the applications server hosts YieldMore's primary software application, wich is proprietary program managing inventory, sales, supply-chain, and customer information. the database server manages all data stored locally with drect attached storage.
all three major sites use Ethernet cabled local area networks (LANs) to connect the users' windows Vista workstation via industry standard, managed switches.
the remote production facilities connect to headquaters via routers T-1(1.54 mbps telecomm circuit) LAN connections provided by an external internet service providers (ISP) and share an internet connection through a firewall at headquaters. individuals sales personnel throuhgout the coutry to YieldMore's network via virtual private network(VPN) software through their individual internet connections, typicalli in a home office.
TASKs:
Using the threat/vulnerability pairs, and considering the likilihood of occurence for each identified by your small group earlier in the Unit, assume the role of an IT manager assigned by YieldMore's senior management to conduct the following risk management tasks.
1-Analize and describe each of the threat/vulnerability pairs and their likelihood of occurrrence.
2- determine which of the 4 risk management techniques is appropriate for each risk describeed in task1.
3- justify your reasoning for each chosen management technique.
4- prepare a brief report of you findings for senior management to review.