READ ALL STEPS BEFORE YOU BEGIN WORKING.

Step 1: Retrieve the template Word file from the Course Materials folder. Insert your planned organization name and your name in the appropriate places.

Background:

· Throughout this course you will REPLACE the Instructions in the template with your work. You will find best practices for policies in each specific area and chose or adapt them to suite your organization.

· You have choices in some weeks where you can do one chapter OR another. Replace the instructions in the one you choose to write, remove the instructions in the other (leaving the headings behind).

· Be careful to avoid changing headings if you do not know Word - get help if you make and error without having a good copy.

· You will use this same document EVERY WEEK - adding/replacing as we go through this course.

· Highlight the section that is indented to be graded that week in RED. Failure to do this will result in your work not being graded and you will be given a 0 for the assignment.

Step 2: Review some Web sites of "good" policy examples you can use to start your research. EACH WEEK you will find examples that apply to the section we are doing. This week we focus on the firm overview - what is the firm and what are we protecting.

These include:

http://www.sans.org/resources/policies/
http://security.utexas.edu/policies/irusp
https://secure4.olemiss.edu/umpolicyopen/ShowDetails.jsp?istatPara=1&policyObjidPara=10654991

· See the "MESSI" document in the Course Materials folder for further security sources.

· REMEMBER THAT YOU NEED TO CITE TWO SOURCES and then provide REFERENCES for these two sources. You WILL need to ADD TWO NEW REFERENCES EACH WEEK - and these will need to be cited.

Step 3: Complete the following 2 sections and submit your Word document to the Module 2 drop box.

Table of Contents

This needs to be completed via Microsoft Word Table of Contents. Ensure that you know how to update the table of contents and do so as the last action before you save. Be careful to avoid changing styles in your document. By keeping a copy, you should be able to revert to the correct format.

Alternatively, choose a similar STYLE for heading1, heading2, heading3, etc. In order to insert the TOC into your document, INSERT, REFERENCE, INDEX AND TABLES, TABLE OF CONTENTS,[Reference tab in Word 2007] choose 3 or 4 levels, GO.

II: Policy Objectives Complete the following sections only and leave the other sections (E, F, and G) blank (remove the instructions under the headings).

· Introduction paragraph
· Firm Overview (about 350-500 words)
· Statement of Purpose
· Policy Statement
· Policy Audience