Kent State University Organizational Software Information Assurance Discussion

You will select a real organization or create a hypothetical organization and apply your research to develop the Information Security Assurance Implementation Plan that would be appropriate for the organization and fulfill a need that the organization has for its systems. Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for the project. This is the course Key Assignment that you will make contributions to each week.

Project Selection

The first step will be to select an organization as the target for your Information Security Assurance Implementation Plan. This organization will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:

• Nontrivial: The selected organization should be large enough to allow reasonable exercise of the information security assurance planning process.
• Domain knowledge: You should be familiar enough with the organization to allow you to focus on the project tasks without requiring significant time for domain education.
• Accessibility: You should have good access to the people and other information that is related to the organization, because this will be an important part of the process.
• Note: The selected organization might already have an information security assurance plan in place, but it may still be used as the basis for the projects in this course.
• Note: The selected organization must have a need for some kind of information security assurance as part of its operations. Therefore, feel free to identify a hypothetical organization that meets the requirements. You may make any necessary assumptions to fulfill the requirements of organization selection.

Select a real or fictitious organization that fits these requirements, and submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. Approval should be sought within the first several days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval.