2 Part Assignment

PART 1:

Scenario:  You have been hired as a consultant by the CEO of a medium-sized business with a limited budget to help address concerns that he has about his organization's information security - and to bring efficiencies to his organization's main business processes involving accounting, customer relationships and inventory.  The CEO would like you to prepare a memo that addresses his concerns.

Prepare an 700 to 1000-word Microsoft® Word® memo saved under the following naming convention: LastnameFirstnameW2-1.  Using student John Doe as an example: DoeJohnW2-1.  The memo must contain the following:

Information Security Information:

*  Choose the 3 information systems threats from the list below. (Deliberate Threats to Information Systems) that you feel are the most important to address.

·          Espionage or trespass

·          Information extortion

·          Sabotage or vandalism

·          Theft of equipment or information

·          Identity theft

·          Compromises to intellectual property

·          Software attacks

·          Alien software

·          Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) attacks

·          Cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare

The threats must be selected from this list

*  Provide a recommendation on how to mitigate the risk for each threat

- Each threat must have a specific recommendation on how to mitigate that threat (3 threats / 3 different recommendations). A recommendation cannot be written to address multiple threats

Business Efficiencies Information: 

*  Research ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), and SCM (Supply Chain Management) software that caters to small and medium-sized businesses

*  Recommend only one off-the-shelf ERP, CRM or SCM software package for the CEO to purchase

*  Explain how the software of your choice can best address most, if not all of the company's main business processes involving accounting, customer relationships and inventory

Formatting Information:

*  Create the memo using a Microsoft^® Word^® memo template

-  Select File => New

-  Type in "Memo" in the search box to find samples to download

-  After selecting the memo of your choice, hit the "Create" button

-  Save the template

*  Insert a text Watermark labeled as "Confidential"

*  Use a minimum of two different fonts in the body of the memo

Please Note:

*  Do not exceed the maximum word count by more than 100 words

*  APA formatting requirements do not apply for this assignment - but if you use outside references, you still need to cite them

PART 2:

Prepare a 500 to 700-word Microsoft® Word® document saved under the following naming convention: LastnameFirstnameW2-2. Using student John Doe as an example: DoeJohnW2-2.  The requirements for this assignment are to:

*  Identify an issue of your choice involving Information Systems Ethics or Information Systems Privacy. You can do an internet search on "information systems ethics" or "information systems privacy" to find a potential issue to write about

*  Provide a summary of the issue that you chose

*  Discuss how your issue applies - or has applied - to situations in your personal and/or professional life (meaning you specifically - not a family member or someone you know)