Homework: Organizational Objectives and Priorities
Organizations need to clearly identify risks before they become relative issues. Therefore, it is important for security professionals to comprehend what must be done to construct strategies that are considered to be proactive resources for analyzing and assessing cybersecurity threats before they become active issues.
In 750 to 1000 words, select an area of the industry that you are interested in and create a hypothetical business. Refer to the "Business Profile Template" when completing this portion of the homework. Define the business environment by making sure to:
i. Describe the organization's mission, objectives, stakeholders, and how it fits into the industry.
ii. Describe the main product, service offerings, and consumer base.
iii. Describe the main departments and their roles, including all major stakeholders.
iv. Describe the company's information technology infrastructure to include hardware, software, networks, data centers, facilities, and related equipment used to develop, test, operate, monitor, manage, and/or support information technology services.
v. Describe a common flow of information and decisions at the following levels within the organization: Executive, Business/Process, Implementation/Operations.
Then, in a Word document, begin implementing a cybersecurity framework. Refer to the "Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity," located within the Course Materials, focusing specifically on "Table: Framework Core." Make sure to:
i. Align the hypothetical business to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework CSF
ii. Prioritize organizational efforts and business needs.
iii. Identify individual elements of cybersecurity risk (threats to and vulnerabilities of) and how to manage them.
iv. Describe how the organization incorporates privacy principles in relation to data collection, disclosure, and retention.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.