30 Jan The cases will be assigned

SEC440 Information Systems Security Planning and Audit

WEEK 1 CASE ANALYSIS

The cases will be assigned from the textbook by the professor. Case recommendations by week have already been developed. In larger classes more than one student will have the same case and there might be an opportunity to have students argue either side of a case. The case analysis is set up to be a multimodal presentation that is standalone for grading purposes. It will require the student to use the case and legal concepts from the text book, research the legal aspects of the case on websites such as FindLaw.com, do research on the parties and circumstances of the case itself and incorporate some audio-visual modality as a part of the case analysis. The result should be substantive and address all aspects of the assignment as well as being informative and entertaining as it is shared with other students in a participatory environment.

Selling Security to the Organization

Please type a three- to five-page (800 to 1,200 words) paper. Using APA style, assess the importance of developing a comprehensive security policy within the organization. What you need to convey to your CEO is that network attacks are continuing to make the news and organizations have reacted by increasingly spending more of their overall IT budget on security. Business executives are starting to have questions about what they’re receiving for their increased IT security spending. Make the case to justify this spending by describing at least five main sections of an information security policy and the business benefits generated if a company’s employees comply with each section. Use transition words, a thesis statement, an introduction, a body, a conclusion, and a reference page with at least two references. Use double-spaced, 12-point Arial font.