ISSC 499 American Military University Week 1 Executive Management Briefing

Assignment Instructions:

Welcometo Week # 1. This week’s assignment will help you to fulfill therequirements for the first-course objective (CO-1: Examine the variousaspects of cybersecurity including the relationship between cyberdefense, cyber operations, cyber exploitations, cyber intelligence,cybercrime, Cyberlaw within Federal and State Laws). For this week’sassignment instructions, please see below:

Assignment Instructions:
You are tasked as the Cyber Security Analyst at your new organization toprepare a briefing for executive management (comprised of people withanywhere from a basic understanding of Information Technology [IT] to aChief Information Officer with a vast knowledge of IT). The purpose ofthe briefing is to make recommendations on a course of action theyshould take to deal with a myriad of threats due to a recent compromiseof critical IT Infrastructure by an unknown intruder or insider.

Forthe purpose of this assignment, you are to select one of the topicsbelow and create an in-depth and thoroughly analyzed report that firstresearches the subject matter and provides a well thought out backgroundbased on current trends; and then make rationalization for thesubsequent recommendations.

TOPICS (you may use more than one topic in your report if you like):

1. Attack Methodology plus Tools and Techniques used
2. Attackers – Types of Threats
3. How Most Organizations Defend Today (Lessons Learned)
4. Targeted Capabilities – What we should be Defending

REQUIREMENTS:

1. 4 – 6 Pages in length in APA format (not including a cover page and reference section)
2. Cover Page
3. Background Section
4. Analysis of current research on the subject matter
5. Recommendations
6. Reference Section

MISCELLANEOUS:

1. Use current and real world data to make your points, not just the textbook
2. Yourreport may focus only on the topic of your choosing – imagine yourselfworking on one aspect of the report while team members complete theother areas following the same structure.