Project Assignment: Securing a Microsoft Windows Environment
Access Controls Procedure Guide
Scenario
Changing access controls can have some undesirable effects. Therefore, it is important to carefully consider changes before making them and provide mechanisms to reverse changes if they have unexpected consequences.
Always Fresh management has asked you to develop procedures for changing any access controls. The purpose of these procedures is to ensure that staff:
1) Understand and document the purpose of each access control changerequest
2) Know what access controls were in place before anychanges
3) Get an approval of change bymanagement
4) Understand the scope of the change, both with respect to users, computers, andobjects
5) Have evaluated the expected impact of thechange
6) Know how to evaluate whether the change meets thegoals
7) Understand how to undo any change ifnecessary
Tasks
Create a guide that security personnel will use that includes procedures for implementing an access control change.
The procedure guide must contain the steps Always Fresh security personnel should take to evaluate and implement an access control change. You can assume any change requests you receive are approved.
Ensure that your procedures include the following:
1) Status or setting prior to anychange
2) Reason for thechange
3) Change toimplement
4) Scope of thechange
5) Impact of thechange
6) Status or setting after thechange
7) Process to evaluate thechange
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 includes 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.