Term Paper: The Rookie Chief Information Security Officer

 Term Paper: The Rookie Chief Information Security Officer
 

Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
 

This assignment consists of five (5) parts:
 

     Part 1: Organization Chart
     Part 2: Request for Proposal (RFP) Plan
     Part 3: Physical Security Plan
     Part 4: Enterprise Information Security Compliance Program
     Part 5: Risk Management Plan
 

Imagine that you have been recently promoted to serve as Chief  Information Security Officer (CISO) for a Fortune 500 organization. This  organization has known brand products across the world and expects  top-secret methods for safeguarding proprietary information on its  recipes and product lines. The Board of Directors request that their  information security strategy be upgraded to allow greater opportunities  of secure cloud collaboration between suppliers and resellers of their  products. Another concern they have is the recent number of hacktivist  attacks that have caused the network to fail across the enterprise.  Their concern extends to making sure that they have controlled methods  for accessing secured physical areas within their various regional  facilities.
 

For your new position, you will be responsible for developing standards,  methods, roles, and recommendations that will set the new IT security  path for the organization. The existing organization has limited  experience in supporting an enhanced level of IT security; therefore,  you may need to outsource certain security services.
 

Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write an eight to twelve (8-12) page paper in which you provide the following deliverables:
 

Part 1: Organization Chart
 

1. Use Visio or an Open Source alternative, such as Dia, to:
    a. Create an organization chart in which you:
         i.   Illustrate the roles that will be required to ensure  design, evaluation, implementation, and management of security programs 
              for the organization.
         ii.  Within your organizational chart, clearly identify the  reporting structure for roles such as IT Security Compliance Officer,                Security Manager, CIO, CISO, IT Security Engineer, Privacy  Security Professional, and IT Procurement Specialist.
         iii. List the types of resources required to fulfill the each  forensic duty of the organization below each of the roles you  identified.
         iv. Align your organization chart to reflect the Department of  Homeland Security (DHS) Essential Body of Knowledge’s three (3)               areas of information security: physical security professional,  privacy professional, and procurement professional. Provide               comments and comparisons on how your organizational chart fosters these  three (3) values.
 

Part 2: Request for Proposal (RFP) Plan
 

2. Develop a Request for Proposal (RFP) plan to solicit qualified  vendors that could partner with your internal team to deliver optimum      IT service delivery. The RFP Plan should contain qualifying criteria of  potential vendors and the responsibilities of the vendor once     the  contract is awarded. As part of the plan, you must:
    a. Describe at least two (2) perspectives that need to be closely monitored within the contract.
    b. Give your perspective on at least two (2) methods that could be  used to evaluate and develop a qualified trusted supplier list.
 

Part 3: Physical Security Plan
 

3. Recommend a physical security plan that could be used to protect  sensitive areas such as telecom rooms, employee only areas,     and  manufacturing facilities in which you:
    a. Include at least three (3) specific methods.
 

Part 4: Enterprise Information Security Compliance Program
 

4. Establish an enterprise information security compliance program that  addresses the concerns of the board of directors of the     organization  in which you:
    a. Describe specific plans and control objectives that could be adopted to address the known issues.
    b. Suggest at least three (3) information security policies that  could be developed and practiced within the organization for data          security assurance.
    c. Outline the steps you would take to define the security needs of  the organization in terms of duties, staffing, training, and          processes.
 

Part 5: Risk Management Plan
 

5. Develop a risk management plan in which you:
     a. Describe at least three (3) possible risk management efforts that could be used to assess threats and unknown issues.
     b. Determine why defining priorities is an important part of the  process when enumerating and having efficient risk control           measures.
     c. Suggest specific technical and management controls that could be enacted in order to monitor risks accurately.
 

6. Use at least three (3) 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.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or one of its equivalents such as Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.
• The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
  
   
• Describe and apply the 14 areas of common practice in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Essential Body of Knowledge.
• Describe best practices in cybersecurity.
• Describe physical security plans and processes.
• Evaluate the ethical concerns inherent in cybersecurity and how these concerns affect organizational policies.
• Explain legal and regulatory compliance practices.
• Explain risk management plans and policies.
• Describe physical security plans and processes.
• Develop a cybersecurity plan that incorporates the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Essential Body of Knowledge.
• Identify the strategic management issues in cybersecurity planning and response.
• Explain data security competencies to include turning policy into practice.
• Compare and contrast the functional roles of an organization in the context of cybersecurity.
• Identify and analyze the role of the Chief Information Officer, Information Security Officer, and IT Security Compliance Officer in the context of cybersecurity.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in cybersecurity.
• Write clearly and concisely about topics associated with cybersecurity using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
• Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills. Click here to access the rubric for this assignment.