Term Paper: Contingency Planning in Action

Term Paper: Contingency Planning in Action

   Create a hypothetical organization with details including geographic  location(s), number of employees in each location, primary business  functions, operational and technology details, potential threats to the  business and its technology, and anything else that you believe is  relevant to the business.

Assume this organization is lacking in  its contingency planning efforts and requires assistance in ensuring  these efforts are appropriately addressed to increase its overall  security and preparedness posture.

  Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

1. Provide  an overview of the organization and indicate why contingency planning  efforts are needed and how these efforts could benefit the business.
2. Develop  a full contingency plan for the organization. Include all subordinate  functions / sub plans, including BIA, IRP, DRP, and BCP efforts.
3. Determine  the policies and procedures that would be needed for all contingency  planning efforts. Detail the role of the policy / procedure, and explain  how each would help achieve the goals of these efforts. 
4. Detail  the processes to utilize in order to fully implement the contingency  plan and its components, and explain the efforts to consider in  maintaining the plans.
5. Create a hypothetical incident scenario  where the contingency planning efforts would need to be utilized and  detail:                                                                                                a.  How the plan is sufficiently equipped  to handle the incident.                                                                                                                                                                                                    b.  a timeline for the incident response and recovery efforts.
6. Identify  any ethical concerns that are specific to this organization and its  incident response personnel (especially the CP Team Leader), and explain  how to plan for these concerns. 
7. Use at least five (5) quality  resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do  not qualify as quality resources. 

  Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be  typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the  assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title,  and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in  the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain risk management in the context of information security.
• Develop a disaster recovery plan for an organization.
• Summarize the various types of disasters, response and recovery methods.
• Compare and contrast the methods of disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Explain  and develop a business continuity plan to address unforeseen  incidents.•Describe crisis management guidelines and procedures.
• Describe detection and decision-making capabilities in incident response.
• Develop techniques for different disaster scenarios. 
• Evaluate the ethical concerns inherent in disaster recovery scenarios. 
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in disaster recovery.
• Write clearly and concisely about disaster recovery topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.