Objectives:
On successful completion of this assignment students should be able to:
- Analyse information security vulnerabilities and threats and determine appropriate controls that can be applied to mitigate the potential risks.
- Communicate effectively both written and orally about the management of information security in organisations.
Security Policy - Research Report
Instructions
Security policies for organisations are vital. Your task is to write a research style report on security policies. You will need to conduct a literature review of what security policies are and from the literature develop a set of Guidelines for organisations to effectively use your chosen security policy.
Students are required to select one policy type from the following list:
- Acceptable Use Policy
- Internet Usage Policy
- E-Mail Usage Policy
- Clean Desk Policy
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy
- Privacy Policy
This assignment will allow you to gain an awareness of academic writing using critical analysis of the allocated policy type. You will learn about security policies in organisations and their inadequate nature. Also, this assignment will allow you to develop your research skills in finding relevant material on a particular topic and what is needed for these types of organisations and their polices so that (1) a security policy is comprehensive and relevant, (2) employees are aware of a security policy and their obligations and (3) compliance with a security policy is achieved.
A template file that must be followed will be made available on the course Study Desk.
ABSTRACT
This formatting template is to be used for submissions of your Security Policy - Research Report. All students are required to follow these simple guidelines so that the look and feel of your assignments is identical to everyone's in the course. In essence, you should format your paper exactly like this document. The easiest way to do this is simply to download this template, and replace the content with your own material. The template file contains specially formatted styles that will reduce your work in formatting your submission.
Every submission should begin with an abstract of about 150 words, followed by a set of keywords. The abstract should be a concise statement of the problem, approach and conclusions of the work described.
INTRODUCTION
Clarity of the introduction to the research topic. Introduces the reader to security policies.
LITERATURE REVIEW
This section of the assignment should include the literature review to find out the main purpose of the policy type that you are reviewing. Also, you need to have a discussion on how policies are used.
METHODOLOGY
In this section you need to discuss the steps or process that you used to develop the guidelines.
KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
In this section you need to write the set of guidelines that you developed based on the key findings from the literature review.
CONCLUSION
It is important that you write to the question being asked and that your assignment develops a set of guidelines based on the literature.