代写 INTE1063: Digital Business Security and Risk Management
INTE1063: Digital Business Security and Risk Management
Individual Assignment (15%)
Best-of-the-Best is a trading firm, which uses a mainframe computer to support its
daily processing needs. Its computer centre, which houses the mainframe, is located
at the ground floor of a commercial building. The computer centre is behind large
plate-glass windows so that the state-of-the-art technology can be displayed as a
measure of the firm’s success and to attract customer and investor attention. The
computer centre is equipped with smoke detectors and automatic water sprinklers,
and the electricity comes from the commercial building (the whole building is
equipped with air-conditioning). An entrance door equipped with a keypad
combination lock prevents unauthorized physical access to the computer centre.
Best-of-the-Best has hired several computer operations staff to operate the computer
centre. To handle the firm’s current level of business, the operations staff works in a
two-shift schedule, 6 days per week. The firm has also hired some systems and
programming staff for software development and maintenance. Since the number of
systems and programming staff is small and the work demand has increased,
systems documentation is prepared only when time is available. Backups occur
periodically as time allows. The firm maintains two backup copies of its program
and data files, one copy is stored in the computer centre and the other is stored at an
off-site location.
Required:
代写 INTE1063: Digital Business Security and Risk Management
a. Identify seven possible threats that could occur in Best-of-the-Best. Explain the
reasons for their occurrence.
b. For each threat identified in (a) above, recommend the suitable control(s) to deal
with it.
Note: To answer the above questions properly, you need to conduct self-directed
research into related materials rather than simply relying on my teaching
materials.
Submission Instructions
• The maximum word limit is 600. An assignment with a word count greater than
600 will not be marked. Put down the word count at the end of your submission.
• The submission deadline is 1 September 2016 (11:55pm). Any late submission
will not be marked. Please submit the assignment online via Blackboard using
Turnitin. Note that, if you submit your assignment after the deadline, Turnitin
will not accept your online submission.
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Hint
All answers can be directly deduced from the above description. Do not answer the
questions based on your assumptions that are totally unrelated to the description.
For example, the description does not mention whether or not a virus scanner has
been implemented by the firm. Accordingly, you cannot make an assumption that a
virus scanner has not been implemented and, hence, identify virus attack as a
possible threat.
代写 INTE1063: Digital Business Security and Risk Management