Homework I: Contingency Planning in Action
Create a hypothetical organization with details including geographic location(s), number of employees in each location, primary business functions, operational and technology details, potential threats to the business and its technology, and anything else that you believe is relevant to the business.
Assume this organization is lacking in its contingency planning efforts and requires assistance in ensuring these efforts are appropriately addressed to increase its overall security and preparedness posture.
Write a ten page paper in which you:
I. Provide an overview of the organization and indicate why contingency planning efforts are needed and how these efforts could benefit the business.
II. Develop a full contingency plan for the organization. Include all subordinate functions / sub plans, including BIA, IRP, DRP, and BCP efforts.
III. Determine the policies and procedures that would be needed for all contingency planning efforts. Detail the role of the policy / procedure, and explain how each would help achieve the goals of these efforts.
IV. Detail the processes to utilize in order to fully implement the contingency plan and its components, and explain the efforts to consider in maintaining the plans.
V. Create a hypothetical incident scenario where the contingency planning efforts would need to be utilized and detail: (i) How the plan is sufficiently equipped to handle the incident. (ii) a timeline for the incident response and recovery efforts.
VI. Identify any ethical concerns that are specific to this organization and its incident response personnel (especially the CP Team Leader), and explain how to plan for these concerns.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this homework are:
i. Explain risk management in the context of information security.
ii. Develop a disaster recovery plan for an organization.
iii. Summarize the various types of disasters, response and recovery methods.
iv. Compare and contrast the methods of disaster recovery and business continuity.
v. Explain and develop a business continuity plan to address unforeseen incidents. Describe crisis management guidelines and procedures.
vi. Describe detection and decision-making capabilities in incident response.
vii. Develop techniques for different disaster scenarios.
viii. Evaluate the ethical concerns inherent in disaster recovery scenarios.
ix. Use technology and information resources to research issues in disaster recovery.
x. Write clearly and concisely about disaster recovery topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
Homework II: Presentation on Threats to the Global Environment
Congratulations! The members of the United Nations found great value in the two analyses you provided. They are now asking you to develop a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the four most critical threats to the global environment. They are listed in the table below.
o Energy sources
o Civil war
o Globalization
o Poor health of entire populations
o Lack of educational opportunities
o Cultural taboos
o Inappropriate uses of technology
o Climate change
To complete this task, you must do the following:
Step 1: Narrow the List from Eight to the Four Most Critical Threats
To complete this step, complete the following tasks in order:
a) Review research on each of the eight threats listed in the table.
b) Determine what you believe to be the current and potential future impacts of each threat on the global environment.
c) Choose the four threats that you see as the most critical by considering which pose the greatest or most immediate risk to us.
Step 2: Create the PowerPoint Presentation
The completed version of this presentation will include a minimum of 19 slides. Your audience consists of the United Nations General Assembly.
PPT Content and Structure
a) A Title Slide: Include your name, course title, current date, and the name of your instructor.
b) An Introduction Slide: List the four threats you chose, and in the Notes section offer a brief narrative justifying these choices
c) Body Slides: The slide content is listed in the outline below. For each body slide you develop, please include a paragraph in the Notes section explaining how the details you have provided in the slide are pertinent to the United Nations' discussion on selecting and prioritizing goals.
1) For your first threat (this is the threat you consider to be the greatest risk/highest priority)
a) One slide on a brief history and assessment of the threat
b) One slide on the countries most affected by the threat, and how those countries are affected (please give examples)
c) One slide on the effects of this threat on the world population as a whole
d) One slide including a chart, graph, or compelling visual that relates to the content you present in body slides a-c
2) For your second threat (this is the threat you consider to be the second greatest risk/second highest priority)
a) One slide on a brief history and assessment of the threat
b) One slide on the countries most affected by the threat, and how those countries are affected (please give examples)
c) One slide on the effects of this threat on the world population as a whole
d) One slide including a chart, graph, or compelling visual that relates to the content you present in body slides a-c
3) For your third threat (this is the threat you consider to be the third greatest threat/highest priority)
a) One slide on a brief history and assessment of the threat
b) One slide on the countries most affected by the threat, and how those countries are affected (please give examples)
c) One slide on the effects of this threat on the world population as a whole
d) One slide including a chart, graph, or compelling visual that relates to the content you present in body slides a-c
4) For your fourth threat (this is the threat you consider to be the fourth greatest threat/highest priority)
a) One slide on a brief history and assessment of the threat
b) One slide on the countries most affected by the threat, and how those countries are affected (please give examples)
c) One slide on the effects of this threat on the world population as a whole
d) One slide including a chart, graph, or compelling visual that relates to the content you present in body slides a-c
5) A Conclusion Slide: Summarize your findings for the Assembly.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.