OBJECTIVES

This assignment is designed to assess students' ability to:
- To be able to Analyze the security information security Incident Management process. .
- To develop skills of disaster security trends.
- To enhance the student knowledge through literature review.
- Use of CU Harvard referencing system to cite and reference academic resources

OUTCOME

Upon the completion of this assignment, students will be able to:

1. Develop information security baseline(s).
2. Manage reviews to identify events and corrective actions

Task 1: Submitting the assignment work proposal

Task 2:

Every organization experiences unusual encountered events such as malicious attacks, that has the potential to damage organization assets, reputation as well as personal. To cope with these unusual events incident management is applied, that is a process of developing and maintaining the capability to manage incidents within an organization, so that impacts can be lowered and recovery is achieved within the specified time objective.

a. Through two research papers analyze the importance of using or applying information security Incident Management process.

b. As an Information Security Manager conduct a study (of any organization from your choice) to analyze the information security Incident Management plan that they apply in their organization.

c. Add your statement and recommendations about the future challenges in these plans.

TASKS DESCRIPTION AND MARKS DISTRIBUTION

The marks allocation scheme for the assignment is as follows:

Task 1:

Submitting the assignment work proposal which include the student understanding and plan.

Task 2:

Provide the following information in the report:

a. Through two research papers analyze the importance of using or applying information security Incident Management process.

Expectations: To define incident management and analyse the different research papers that clarify the importance, challenges and processes of it.

b. As an Information Security Manager conduct a study (of any organization from your choice) to analyze the information security Incident Management plan that they apply in their organization.

Expectations: To analyse a case study showcasing the planning and utilization of incident management planning
and highlighting the advantages.

c. Add your statement and recommendations about the future challenges in these plans.

Expectations: add your understanding of main gaps in chosen case study, with proper recommendation to enhance the identified gaps/challenges.