Temple University
During this last week of Discussion Questions, I would ask that you reflect that you consider at least one of the following:
For this week’s “In the News”, locate an article that discusses one of the following:
In regards to the threats that you have identified, how does the threat change the steps that the organization would take to mitigate, or lessen, the risk from that threat?
Answer at least one of the following questions:
You’ve been hired as a consultant by an organization not due to a breach, but because their regulator documented a finding that the organization must redefine their Incident Response Program.
For this week’s “In the News”, research a recent article, providing the link to the article, that describes an incident that impacted an organization.
For this week’s In the News, research an article how an organization has improved their productivity, efficiency, or quality of their key business services by adopting one of the New Trends in Information Security.
This week, choose one of the following new trends, and relate what the business implications (benefit, risk, threat) of the new trend. If this is a risk or threat to the organization, why does the organization accept the risk, or what else does the organization do to minimize the threat?
For this week’s Discussion, we consider Application (Software) Development. Answer at least one of the following questions:
For this week’s “In the News”, research an article dealing with how secure code development practices (or lack thereof) affected a major software project; was the project more or less successful as a result?
For this week’s “In the News”, research a recent article that relates how an organization was benefitted by their business continuity program, or suffered due to the lack of an adequate program? What are the key lessons learned from the article?
Answer one of the following questions: