Assignment Guidelines
Prepare a 10-minute presentation with an executive summary of your analysis and solution, focusing on the follow ing guidelines:
1. Overview of a small to medium business that you are familiar w ith (current workplace, family business, etc.)
2. Description of the security functions in the organization (hardware, software, practices, and people)
3. SWOT Matrix
3.1. Express in your own w’ords what is a SWOT Matrix (p. 16).
3.2. Provide a complete SWOT Matrix related to the information security perspective of the organization and its departments (Hint: Box 1.2 on p. 16 – note that this SWOT Matrix is focused on marketing, whereas yours should he focused on information securit)’ operations!).
Strengths
Weaknesses
1.
Market share is high
1.
Gross profit is tight with price increases
2.
Widely regarded as best in class
difficult
to achieve
3.
Leader in innovation within its industrial
2.
Foreign competition is growing with fresh
sector
marketing
approaches
3.
Income is too cyclical with no strategy to
deal
with troughs
Opportunities
1.
Can build on growth
using e-commerce better
2.
May expand into new
foreign markets
3.
Monetization of assets
through partnerships with noncompetitive organizations
Threats
1.
Substantial
competitors are poised to be entering the market
2.
Execution risk with
growth plans untested for market expansion
3.
Regulatory’
environment changing that could impinge on profit and operations
4, Outline the strategic roles of the following organizational stakeholders in planning and managing security, as wrell as mitigating the weaknesses that you identified above, including:
– Board of Directors
– Senior Management
– Chief Information Security Officer (ClSO}
– IT Management (CIO, IT Director, etc.)
– Functional Area Management
– Information Security personnel
– End users (employees, customers, etc.)
5, The anticipated top three biggest challenges that correspond to the weaknesses that you identified in SW’OT Matrix.
6, Conclusion
Format
All text in the proposal should be word-processed (letter or correspondence-quality font). New Times Roman or Calibri, 12 point, double space and standard margins. The body of the proposal should be 3- to 4 pages long (not including title page. Table of Contents, Reference List, & Certificate of Authorship).
The following information should also be included:
Title page:
– Assignment Name and Number
– Name and NSU email
– Professor’s name
– Class Name and Number (e.g. ISEC-0635 Summer 20xx)
– Due date
Report:
– Table of Contents (with sections & page numbers identified – Ensure the context text starts on page 1, frontmatter shouldn’t be counted in page numbers)
– Page numbers on all pages
– Clear and consistent headings of all sections
– No running heads
– Reference List following APA (At least seven different references)
