Telecommunication and Network Security

The following two examples demonstrate how risk assessment can be conducted in certain situations. Read briefly to get some basic ideas.
NIST (2010). Piloting Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information Systems.
CDS Case Study. Making Information Risk Mitigation Decisions. Vincent Larcote Case Series. Case #6-0029. Center for Digital Strategies. Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Practicing risk assessment foundamentals, processes and matrixes to one's own experiences offers an opportunity to apply the learning in the real world. Can you choose a particular information system security domain of your organization or industry and apply what you learned from the case readings and SLP examples? You can choose to assess comprehensively, or you can choose not to cover all the aspects of risk assessment but to focus on two or three major perspectives and go much more in depth.
Assignment:
Please write a 2-5 page paper titled:
"Risk Assessment for ______ (your chosen information system security domain in your chosen organization/industry): Challenges and Solutions"
Expectations:
Please address the following issues:
1. Special requirements of risk assessment in your chosen information system security domain in your chosen organization/industry if there are any.
2. Two or three major perspectives of risk assessment that you choose to go in depth to discuss.
3. One or two major lessons learned from the examples that you'd like apply in your own risk assessment issue here.
4. Key challenges and solutions of risk assessment.
Your paper will also be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Precision: You carried out the exercise as assigned, or carefully explained the limitations that might have prevented your completing some parts (running out of time isn't generally considered an adequate limitation).
- Clarity: Your answers are clear and show your good understanding of the topic.
- Breadth and Depth: The scope covered in your paper is directly related to the questions of the assignment and the learning objectives of the module.
- Critical thinking: The paper incorporates YOUR reactions, examples, and applications of the material to business that illustrate your reflective judgment and good understanding of the concepts.
Overall quality: Your paper is well written and the references, where needed, are properly cited and listed.