Propose a Security Policy for an Organization Paper

CSU Propose a Security Policy for an Organization Paper

Option #1: Propose a Security Policy for an Organization

Preparation: Choose a real or hypothetical organization, corporation (profit or non-profit), or institution that uses IT in its product, services, activities, and/or operations. If you work in an organization or field that could benefit from an information network security policy, you might have chosen that company to apply the project to it.

Assignment: Prepare a well-written security policy proposal for your organization that utilizes the concepts learned in the course as a basis for your analysis and policy.

Make sure that your proposal includes these basic elements of a good security policy:

An introduction that describes your organization, its mission, products/services, technical resources, and technical strategy.

Analysis of the organization’s relationships to its clients/customers, staff, management, and owners or other stakeholders.

A vulnerability assessment.

Your security policy recommendation should:

1. Propose remedial measures as appropriate to the situation. These might include firewall/gateway provisions, authentication and authorization, encryption systems, intrusion detection, virus detection, incident reporting, education/training, etc.
2. Propose a code of ethics or code of practice to be applied within the organization.
3. Propose legal/compliance requirements and describe how they will be met.
4. Propose a security policy statement/summary.

Important: You must justify every element of your proposal in ethical and legal terms. In other words, you need to state why each policy/code element (including technical elements) is good for business and why it is good/sound ethical policy (how it is good for the organization and why it is good for customers, users, or employees, or the public). You should also identify any ethical/legal tensions, conflicts, and/or contradictions and justify any trade-offs being made in the recommendation.