Posted: September 18th, 2017
Week 2 Laboratory
Perform a Qualitative Risk Assessment for an IT Infrastructure Learning Objectives and Outcomes Lab #4: Assessment Worksheet Perform a Qualitative Risk Assessment for an IT Infrastructure Overview The following risks, threats, and vulnerabilities were found in an IT infrastructure. Consider the scenario of a Healthcare provider under HIPPA compliance law and what compliance to HIPPA involves. 1. Given the list below, perform a qualitative risk assessment: Risk – Threat – Vulnerability Primary Domain Impacted Risk Impact/Factor Unauthorized access from pubic Internet User destroys data in application and deletes Hacker penetrates your IT infrastructure Intra-office employee romance gone bad Fire destroys primary data center Service provider SLA is not achieved Workstation OS has a known software Unauthorized access to organization owned Risk – Threat – Vulnerability Primary Domain Impacted Risk Impact/Factor Loss of production data Denial of service attack on organization Remote communications from home office User downloads and clicks on an unknown Workstation browser has software vulnerability Mobile employee needs secure browser access Service provider has a major network outage Weak ingress/egress traffic filtering User inserts CDs and USB hard drives VPN tunneling between remote computer WLAN access points are needed for LAN Need to prevent eavesdropping on WLAN DoS/DDoS attack from the WAN/Internet 2. Next, for each of the identified risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, prioritize them by listing a “1”, “2”, and “3” next to each risk, threat, vulnerability in the “Risk Impact/Factor” column. “1” = Critical, “2” = Major, “3” = Minor. Use the following qualitative risk impact/risk factor metrics: 3. Craft an executive summary for management using the following 4-paragraph format. The executive summary must address the following topics: Week 2 Lab: Assessment Worksheet Perform a Qualitative Risk Assessment for an IT Infrastructure Overview Answer the following Assessment Worksheet questions pertaining to your qualitative IT risk assessment you performed. Lab Assessment Questions & Answers 1. What is the goal or objective of an IT risk assessment? 2. Why is it difficult to conduct a qualitative risk assessment for an IT infrastructure? 3. What was your rationale in assigning “1” risk impact/ risk factor value of “Critical” for an identified risk, threat, or vulnerability? 4. When you assembled all of the “1” and “2” and “3” risk impact/risk factor values to the identified risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, how did you prioritize the “1”, “2”, and “3” risk elements? What would you say to executive management in regards to your final recommended prioritization? |
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