Website Security Test Plan

The company under consideration is a growing small scale company. The company needs to embrace technology to extend its business further. After several successful years of business now it needs an accounting system to cater for increasing needs of collecting and managing its accounts and other information effectively and securely.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

The aim of this project is to find a suitable Commercial Off The Self or COTS accounting system for the company that will helpful in capturing and analyzing all accounting and financial details of the company. Also the software solution is needed to be integrated into the existing systems such as payroll, IT etc. well and without heavy customization.

The design of the software should be user friendly and compact. Especially the design should confirm the following criteria,

1. The design should be business oriented.

2. There should be different levels of access by owner, accountant and other employees.

3. The outcomes of different analysis processes such as charts, reports etc. should be compact and should contain all related information.

4. There should be adequate supporting features such as help, find information etc. in such a way that an employee from non-accounting background can understand the system activities easily.

Generally COTS have the following requirements that can be classified as technical.

1. The computing resources needed for the system. These should consider, CPU speed, memory, storage, network bandwidth.

2. How it deals concurrent updates.

3. How larger information are processed?

4. Security and access controls supported by the system.

5. Administrative activities supported by the system.

1) Functionalities of general ledger

a) Real time response to the transaction related queries.

b) Automated journal entries to allocate fringe, indirect cost.

c) Reconciliation supports for account receivable or payable.

2) Functionalities of financial reporting

a) Periodic report generation such as weekly, monthly, yearly.

b) Real time reporting and responses to queries

c) Reporting of encumbrance accounting and funds.

d) Provides detailed statistical analysis.

The project will last for 3 days. This will include installation and training on the use of the COTS.

The licensing and third party user details, privacy policies etc. should be clearly stated. If any legal controversies arise in the selection process or later on, that will be dealt by the jurisdiction of the state only.

The system will be chosen based on performance, offered functionalities and cost.

The selection process is as follows,

Step 1 The proposals will be collected.

Step 2 After the deadline the proposals will be evaluated and reviewed.

Step 3 The selected companies will be asked to provide a demo session and will be interviewed

Step 4 The final selection will be carried on.

Step 5 The selected one will be contacted for agreement.

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