Organizing for Security

Assignment Content

1. Your organization has grown over the past few years and needs to update its security. The CEO has asked you to create a 1-page brief on the best practices and pitfalls of organizing for security in order to best manage risk-based decision making in a large organization. Your CEO would also like you to analyze the barriers for Hardening Devices, including mobile technology, and suggest solutions.Include the following in your brief:
   
   
   
   • Bureaucratic challenges of the organization, and barriers to effective risk-informed communications
   • Best practice in the acceptance or transference of risk (for example, cybersecurity, information assurance, device management, organizational management, software management, physical and cybersecurity combined)
   • Solutions to barriers for Hardening Devices that include mobile technology
   • How your organization will assist with optimal risk-based decision making within the organizational bureaucracy
   • How updating and removing outdated software and can minimize risk
   • What access control concepts and technologies will be needed for the update
   • What will need to be done to increase security compliance
   • Using Microsoft® Visio®, include an organizational chart for your company that includes the following:
     
     
     
   • Key organizational positions, such as CEO, CIO, CISO, COO, CFO, and physical security officers
   • How each organizational position relates to the various aspects included in your brief