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Project: Risk Management Plan
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Deliverables
As discussed in this course, risk management is an important process for all organizations. This is particularly true in
information systems, which provides critical support for organizational missions. The heart of risk management is a formal
risk management plan. The project activities described in this document allow you to fulfill the role of an employee
participating in the risk management process in a specific business situation.
The project is structured as follows:
Project Part Deliverable
Project Part 1 Task 1: Risk Management Plan
Task 2: Risk Assessment Plan
Task 3: Risk Mitigation Plan
Project Part 2 Task 1: Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Plan
Task 2: Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
Task 3: Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
Task 4: Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) Plan
Submission Requirements
All project submissions should follow this format:
Format: Microsoft Word or compatible
Font: Arial, 10-point, double-space
APA Citation Style
Scenario
You are an information technology (IT) intern working for Health Network, Inc. (Health Network), a fictitious health
services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Health Network has over 600 employees throughout the
organization and generates $500 million USD in annual revenue. The company has two additional locations in Portland,
Oregon and Arlington, Virginia, which support a mix of corporate operations. Each corporate facility is located near a co-
location data center, where production systems are located and managed by third-party data center hosting vendors.
Company Products
Health Network has three main products: HNetExchange, HNetPay, and HNetConnect.
HNetExchange is the primary source of revenue for the company. The service handles secure electronic medical
messages that originate from its customers, such as large hospitals, which are then routed to receiving customers such as
clinics.
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HNetPay is a Web portal used by many of the company’s HNetExchange customers to support the management of
secure payments and billing. The HNetPay Web portal, hosted at Health Network production sites, accepts various forms
of payments and interacts with credit-card processing organizations much like a Web commerce shopping cart.
HNetConnect is an online directory that lists doctors, clinics, and other medical facilities to allow Health Network
customers to find the right type of care at the right locations. It contains doctors’ personal information, work addresses,
medical certifications, and types of services that the doctors and clinics offer. Doctors are given credentials and are able
to update the information in their profile. Health Network customers, which are the hospitals and clinics, connect to all
three of the company’s products using HTTPS connections. Doctors and potential patients are able to make payments
and update their profiles using Internet-accessible HTTPS Web sites.
Information Technology Infrastructure Overview
Health Network operates in three production data centers that provide high availability across the company’s products.
The data centers host about 1,000 production servers, and Health Network maintains 650 corporate laptops and
company-issued mobile devices for its employees.
Threats Identified
Upon review of the current risk management plan, the following threats were identified:
Loss of company data due to hardware being removed from production systems
Loss of company information on lost or stolen company-owned assets, such as mobile devices and laptops
Loss of customers due to production outages caused by various events, such as natural disasters, change
management, unstable software, and so on
Internet threats due to company products being accessible on the Internet
Insider threats
Changes in regulatory landscape that may impact operations
Management Request
Senior management at Health Network has determined that the existing risk management plan for the organization is out
of date and a new risk management plan must be developed. Because of the importance of risk management to the
organization, senior management is committed to and supportive of the project to develop a new plan. You have been
assigned to develop this new plan.
Additional threats other than those described previously may be discovered when re-evaluating the current threat
landscape during the risk assessment phase.
The budget for this project has not been defined due to senior management’s desire to react to any and all material risks
that are identified within the new plan. Given the company’s annual revenue, reasonable expectations can be determined.
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Project Part 1 Task 1: Risk Management Plan
For the first part of the assigned project, you must create an initial draft of the final risk management plan. To do so, use
the template provided in class:
Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
Did the student demonstrate an understanding of the competencies covered in the course thus far?
Did the student include all important components of a risk management plan in the outline?
Did the student demonstrate good research, reasoning, and decision-making skills in identifying key components
and compliance laws and regulations?
Did the student create a professional, well-developed draft with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?
Project Part 1 Task 2: Risk Assessment Plan
After creating an initial draft of the risk management plan, the second part of the assigned project requires you to create a
draft of the risk assessment (RA) plan. To do so, use the template provided in class:
Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
Did the student demonstrate an understanding of the competencies covered in the course relating to risk
assessments?
Did the student include all important components of a RA plan in the outline?
Did the student demonstrate good research, reasoning, and decision-making skills in identifying key components
and methodologies?
Did the student create a professional, well-developed draft with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?
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