Assessment Task and Context

Reflecting on your MIS607 Assessment 2, the organisation has decided to continue to employ you as a consultant for the next phase: Risk Analysis and Development of the Mitigation Plan.

The organisation has become aware that the Australia Government (AG) has developed strict

privacy requirements for businesses. The company wishes you to produce a brief summary of these based on real-world Australian government requirements (similar to how you used real-world

information in MIS607 Assessment 2 for real-world attack). These include the Australian Privacy    Policies (APPs) especially the requirements on notifiable data breaches. The company wants you to examine these requirements and advise them on their legal requirements. Also ensure that your   threat list includes attacks on customer data breaches. The company wishes to know if the GDPR   applies to them.

Instructions

MIS607 Assessment 3 is in many ways a continuation of MIS607 Assessment 2. You will start with the threat list from your MIS607 Assessment 2, although feel free to make changes to the threat list if it is not suitable for MIS607 Assessment 3. You may need to include threats related to

privacy concerns. Beginning with the threat list:

. You need to align threats or vulnerabilities, as much as possible, with controls.

. Perform a risk analysis and determine controls to be employed.

. Combine the controls into a project of mitigation.

. Give advice on the need for ongoing cybersecurity, after your main mitigation steps.

To successfully complete this assessment:

. You must use the risk matrix approach covered in classes (Risk = likelihood x consequence)

. You should show evidence of gathering data on “likelihood” and “consequence” for each of the threat you have identified. You should briefly explain how this was done.

. At least ONE (1) of the risks must be so trivial and/or expensive to control that you decide  not to use it (In other words, in this case, you are accepting the risk). At least ONE (1) of the risks, but obviously not all.

. Provide cost estimates for the controls including policy or training controls. You can    makeup these values but try to justify at least ONE (1) of the costs (if possible, use links to justify costs).

. You must present a topic assigned to you in class by your learning facilitator as an in class presentation. The duration of the presentation needs to be in between 3 to 5   minutes.  Please ensure that you are objective in your presentation.

Report Structure and Format:

The report should have the following heading structure.

Title page

The  title  page  should   include  subject  code  and   name,  assessment   number,  report  title, assessment due date, word count (actual), student name and surname, student ID, Torrens’s email address, learning facilitator name and surname.

Executive Summary

Mainly this section is where you “Summarize” your report. The best time to write the

Executive Summary is when you have finished working on your assessment. By then you will  be able to “Summarise” your work. It should be written in a simple and easy to read language.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure to ONLY provide the summarised version of the report.

1. Introduction

In this section introduce your assessment/report to the reader. Think of the purpose and

objectives ofyour assessment and ask this question from yourself that why this assessment  is valuable and important? You will need to provide a short description of the case scenario. Overall, the introduction section is about “What the assessment is going to be about?” .

2. Main Discussion

IMPORTANT NOTE: The required discussions for sub-sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 are discussed earlierin this assessment brief document (see above).

2.1. Threats List and STRIDE Categorisation Summary

2.2. Threats Analysis (Using Risk Matrix)

2.3. Threats and Controls

2.4.  Mitigation Scheme

3. Conclusion

In this section, you will wrap up your discussion in a clear and simple way. Overall, the

conclusion section reminds the reader what the report/assessment has been about. Indicate and discuss the majorfindings and/or recommendation of your report.

4. References

A minimum of Five (5) references are required in this assessment. Please be advised that you can use as many references you require in your assessment; however, the minimum number of references is 5references). At least three (3) references MUST be from peer-reviewed

sources (e.g. conferences, journals).

You can put a “*” after such peer-reviewed references in the references section when you want to highlight they are peer reviewed. One (1) of the peer-reviewed articles MUST be   uploaded in PDF format along with your MIS607 Assessment 3 report on Blackboard. This  PDF file will be referred as the “nominated article” .

IMPORTANT NOTE: Zero marks for referencing if the nominated article is not itself peer-

reviewed or if there is no peer-reviewed article submitted with your MIS607 Assessment 3.   Of course, the nominated article should be properly referenced and cited; however, you also need to cite an important direct quote from within the article (with page number), not just a brief sentence from the abstract. The quote should also relate to the main topic of the

article, not just aside issue.

5. Appendices (Appendix 1, Appendix 2,etc.)

An Appendix is NOT necessary for your assessment UNLESS for any of the following two reasons:

ü Your MIS607 Assessment 2 has been marked 60 and below and you had to work on your assessment 2 and make relevant changes and once improved attach it within  the Appendicessection as Appendix 1.

ü There is EXTRA general information which you think is helpful for your assessment. IMPORTANT NOTE: ALL important and necessary information for your report (e.g.

Risk Matrix,etc.) must be inserted and discussed within the body of your assessment and NOT in Appendices section.

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR MIS607 ASSESSMENT 3 SUBMISSION:

. This assessment must be submitted as a WORD document (*.doc OR *.docx).

. You are highly advised to read the “case scenario”, several times. Then, it is advised to read through this Assessment Brief document and note requirements. It is highly advised to also check the Marking Rubric for more information how the assessment will be marked.

. Any used information/discussion from your MIS607 Assessment 2 requires to be accurately and completely referenced to avoid Academic misconduct such as “self-plagiarism” .

. The report should use Arialor Calibri fonts, 11 point. It should be line spaced at 1.5 and must have page numbers on the bottom of each page.

. The word count for this assessment is 2500 words (+/- 10%), NOT counting tables, figures, executive summary, cover sheet, references, and appendices (if any).

. You must be careful NOT to use up the word count discussing cybersecurity basics. This is not an exercise in summarising class notes and etc. Discussing general information and

material will not count towards marks.

. Make sure to use a reasonable number of Tables and Figures in your assessment.

. ALL inserted/used Tables and Figures within the report MUST be captioned/labelled and numbered (e.g. Table 1, Table 2, etc.).

. ALL inserted/used Tables and Figures within the report require being initially introduced and then discussed in a clear, focused and simple way.

. Within the assessment document, when referring to Tables and Figures, you require to refer to them by their captions (note that publishers do not guarantee Tables and Figures to be    placed the same order or location as in your article). NOTE: Tables and Figures without a

caption may be treated as if they are not in the report.

. If you have not performed so well with MIS607 Assessment 2 (Your mark was less than 60%), you will need to fix the issues noted in your MIS607 Assessment 2 based on the provided

feedback and then include your MIS607 Assessment 2 in your MIS607 Assessment 3

“Appendix 1” section. IMPORTANT NOTE: There will be NO MARKS for the remediation of MIS607 Assessment 2.