Organisational Security

MQP 008

Report on Security Issues in the Fugle Company

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Date: 10th April 2020

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Length: 1500 words (+/-100)

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Introduction (approx. 200 words)

Security issues are present in every modern business. Information security is defined as … ( , ). This report introduces Fugle, describes its information systems, identifies the threats to these systems and summarises the legal and ethical issues involved in maintaining information security at Fugle. Information security is critical to Fugle’s success.

Fugle Company is a technology company which has developed a new product for … The product has attracted a lot of attention but there are questions about its security. There is much pressure to launch the product on time, and there is only a limited budget available for security. This report outlines the security issues that apply to the Marketing, Human Resources, Accounting and Product Development information systems.

Information Systems and their Assets

Fugle has four key information systems. An information system can be defined as …( ). Each of these systems have key assets to protect. An asset is defined as … ( ). Threats towards the assets contained in any of these systems could have a major impact on the future viability of the whole company.

The Marketing Information System for Fugle is responsible for… Its major assets include… According to Weller (2017) a big risk to these assets is…

The Human Resource Information System for Fugle is responsible for… Its major assets include… According to Foxall (2018) these assets are under threats because of five trends happening in businesses…

The Accounting Information System for Fugle is responsible for… Its major assets include… According to Bawaneh (2014) the key risk to these assets comes from …

The Product Development Information System for Fugle is responsible for… Its major assets include… According to Forbes Technology Council (2018) threats can occur at any time in the product development cycle. This means …

Important Threats

Threats can be defined as … (). They have been classified by Jounin et al. (2014) into five dimensions. The first dimension is …

All the information systems have potential environmental threats such as … However, some other types of threats are more important to specific systems.

Illegal use of information is the most important threat for the Marketing Information System. This is an external… … An example of misuse of information would be …

Human Resources faces both external and internal threats. An internal threat could be the accidental leaking of information such as… On the other hand, external threats come from those listed by Foxall (2018) These can be classified as …The most likely threat example of these threats in Fugle would be…

As already mentioned the most important threat in the Accounting information system is… This is a … threat. An example in Fugle would be…

Product Development threats involve corruption or theft of information. These can be classified as … and… .An example in Fugle would be… According to

Legal and Ethical Implications

Specific Australian laws make Fugle responsible to keep good information security controls. Srinivas (2015) summarises these laws….

There are also ethical reasons for Fugle to protect its information. The key ethical commandments from Computer Ethics Institute (1992) include the commandments… These are important for Fugle because…

Conclusion

The discussion above shows that…

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