CMGT 400 Week 1 Kudler System Review
CMGT 400 Week 2 Common Information Security Threats
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Write a 1,000- to 1,500-word paper on at least three major information security threats that a specific organization you choose faces today.
Describe potential risks to the information and the related vulnerabilities within the organization. Identify the forces that drive each threat and the related vulnerabilities.
Discuss how the values for threat and vulnerability combine to indicate the overall risk the organization faces.
Describe how an organization can properly manage its information security efforts using proper risk management techniques and cost-benefit analyses for these information security efforts.
Explain the legal, ethical, and regulatory requirements for protecting data.
CMGT 400 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Top Threats
Develop a table that identifies the top threats to the new customer rewards program at Kudler Fine Foods in preparation for your final report (due in Week Five). Include the likely vulnerabilities each threat might exploit. The following table is an example of one you might use:
Area of System
Threat
Potential Vulnerability
Draft a summary of those threats that the team feels are most critical to Kudler.
CMGT 400 Week 3 Disaster Securing and Protecting Information
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Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper that describes the security authentication process.
Discuss how this and other information security considerations will affect the design and development process for new information systems.
Include a brief discussion of how to include preventative measures for securing data, such as backups and remote or redundant storage.
Note what role this will play in the other areas covered in the paper.
Provide an overview of several systems and devices that can provide security services to meet the needs raised by the other areas covered in the paper.
CMGT 400 Week 3 Kudler Fine Foods IT Security Report and Presentation Security Considerations
Draft the security considerations for each phase of the systems development process.
Identify specific concerns if the system is ever removed from service.
Specify what can and should be done in each systems development process phase to properly mitigate the risk for each entry in the table from the previous week. Be specific, but high-level in your mitigations. Most or all items will have something to check or do in each stage of the systems development process.
CMGT 400 Week 4 Kudler Fine Foods IT Security Report and Presentation Security Policy and Training
Identify the key information security policy elements that will be needed at Kudler Fine Foods to support the efforts to ensure that the new frequent shopper program properly protects the customer and organizational information.
Identify the security awareness training needed to ensure that employees are ready to properly protect customer and organizational information when using the new system.
CMGT 400 Week 4 The Role of Information Security Policy
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Write a 1,000- to 1,500-word paper describing the importance of policies and standards for maintaining information systems security.
Include a discussion of the role employees—and others working for the organization—play in this effort.
Examine the different levels of security and how an organization can provide the proper level of effort to meet each information security need and how this relates to what is in an organization’s information security policy.
CMGT 400 Week 5 Kudler Fine Foods IT Security Report and Presentation
Develop a 3,000- to 3,500-word report for the CIO of Kudler Fine Foods.
This report should cover the material from the previous weeks, providing a comprehensive look at the key safeguards needed for the project at each stage of the systems development processes.
The report should have clear recommendations to ensure that the final frequent shopper program system is properly secured against likely threats.
Include the requirements for future audit provisions the internal staff may use to validate the security measures in the system.
Prepare a presentation to executive management at Kudler Fine Foods of the need to make the changes recommended in the paper.
The presentation should be 10 minutes in length.
The presentation must include appropriate graphics, such as Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides.
The presentation must include detailed speaker’s notes.
Prepare to present your project to your class.
