Assignment: Information Security Management
Discussion Assignments are designed to ensure critical reflection and application of course content as well as peer interaction. Your responses should reflect your active engagement in understanding the information from the weekly reading material. For each discussion, you will: Post a detailed response of 250 - 300 words to the question or questions posed by the professor.
1. In communications and network security aspects, securing the grid is very important. Suggest your opinion about grid vulnerabilities and threats and corresponding countermeasures to protect them.
2. What kind of attacks and mobile malware are dominant in mobile communications environment? Would you suggest some of your ideas to fight against them?
3. How can you get the best out of information security projects? Please suggest your ideas.
4. Do you think an organizational behavior including institutions can cultivate your information security program? Please show your rationale of your answer with supporting evidences.
5. How can you manage the security testing process on the service-oriented architecture? Is it possible or not?
6. How can you improve security resilience in the Software Development Life Cycle? Suggest your ideas.
7. What would be the best practice of applying the principles of cryptography in cloud computing? Suggest your ideas.
8. Do research about the five major cloud computing services and introduce their cloud computing security technologies and policies respectively.
Text Book: Information Security Management Handbook Edited by Richard O'Hanley and James S. Tiller, Sixth Edition.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.