This assignment assesses your understanding in relation to the following three course objectives:

This assignment assesses your understanding in relation to the following three course objectives:

1. Analyze information security vulnerabilities and threats and determine appropriate controls that can be applied to mitigate the potential risks

2. Explain why continual improvement is necessary to maintain reasonably secure information systems and IT infrastructure and to describe the role of disaster recovery and business continuity plans in recovering information and operational systems when systems and hardware fail

4. Demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively both written and orally about the management of information security in organizations.

This assignment assesses the following graduate skills: Problem Solving, Academic & Professional Literacy and Oral and Written Communication at level 2.

This assignment relates to the topics covered in modules 1 to 10. This assignment can be completed by groups of two students or as an individual assignment. Details regarding the allocation of students to teams will be provided on the course study desk. If working in a student team you will be expected work collaboratively as a team in developing and discussing their approach to assignment case study and the required Security report and presentation. Regular participation by the team members or an individual completing this assignment each week from Monday 7th September until Friday 23rd October is expected. Each team member or an individual will also be required to keep a journal of their activities and progress related to completing this assignment and will form part of the assessment for assignment 3. In date order clearly list the following:

• Date of research activity/discussion

• Topics researched or discussed

• Time duration of activity.

Submit this journal for each team member or as an individual as an appendix to the assignment Recommendations report. Any reference to web pages and on line resources such as white papers, blogs, wikis etc. should be listed at the end of the journal.

Regular participation on the discussion forums dedicated for this assessment is highly recommended and can assist greatly with this assessment item. Also note that you are expected to do research outside of the course materials provided.