Week 12: Reading Questions & Case

Readings

1. What are the risks associated with the 10 processes that Gartner says you must get right?  How do these controls help?
2. Who or what do you think is the most significant risk to any organization?
3. Security education is spoken of often.  Why is it important?

The iPremier Case

Read all three parts of the iPremier Case.  Consider these questions when you prepare for Tuesday’s class.

1. How well did the iPremier Company perform during the seventy-five minute attack? If you were Bob Turley, what might you have done differently during the attack?
2. The iPremier Company CEO, Jack Samuelson, had already expressed to Bob Turley his concern that the company might eventually suffer from a “deficit in operating procedures.” Were the company’s operating procedures deficient in responding to this attack? What additional procedures might have been in place to better handle the attack?
3. Should iPremier have implemented Ripley’s suggestion to shut down the company and rebuild the production platforms? What were the pros and cons?