Option #1:

Company Overview: Financial Services company, privately owned (LLP), providing brokerage services for investments and loans, with a primary office in San Diego (Kearny Mesa) and three field offices (in Vista, Poway, and El Cajon)
• Company Size: Small Business – 40 employees in total; 1 Branch Manager and 6 staff at each field office, and the Management Team, an Office Manager, and 15 staff at the main office
• Management Team: The Owner/CEO, CFO, and COO 
• IT/Security Services: They contract with third parties for all IT services, which are managed by the COO; they have no internal IT staff and no cybersecurity staff 
• Company’s Mission: To provide the best brokerage services for our customers, with high rates of return and lowest fees
• Technical Environment: They use PCs running Windows 10; an office application suite runs locally on each PC; shared financial applications run from cloud-based services; email is provided through cloud-based services with the capability to send digitally signed, encrypted messages; shared file storage is provided through cloud-based services, with the ability to encrypt files or entire folders/directories; they have a secure Fax machine in each office.

 

Assignment: For the option you have chosen, create an outline of the basic steps (or phases) of the strategic planning process that is suitable for the company. Each step/phase of the process should include 1-2 sentences to describe what takes place during that step/phase, and you need to identify the key stakeholders for each step/phase and briefly describe their role in the process (not their general job duties). Rather than an outline, you may use a process flow chart, as long as all of the descriptions and stakeholders are included. You may use the attached "Example Strategic Planning Process" file as a guide. Also, create an InfoSec Strategy (consisting of 2-3 paragraphs) – aligned with business mission and objectives (either stated in the Option description or as an additional assumption for the company you selected. 

 outcomes: (1) Outline (or process flow chart) of strategic planning process (as described above) and (2) your InfoSec Strategy.

Submit your answer as a single file in one of the following formats: Word (.docx), Rich Text Format (.rtf) or as a .PDF file.