Utilise Design Methodologies for Security Architecture
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Utilise Design Methodologies for Security Architecture
Section 1: Security architecture design planningThe business
Summarise the business operations and current network infrastructure.
Provide your analysis of the business security requirements based on your review. Your analysis should describe the business requirements for:
Security levels
Security perimeters
Security features
Security mode
If you are completing this for the case study organisation, review the information in the Simulation Pack to help you answer these questions. If you are completing this for your own business, you should review relevant documentation to formulate your answer. Procedures for designing security architectureDescribe the procedures that need to be followed for designing security architecture.
If you are completing this for the case study organisation, review the information in the Simulation Pack to help you answer these questions. If you are completing this for your own business, you should review relevant documentation to formulate your answer.
Data types
Describe the types of data that will be included in the security architecture as relevant to the business. Design methodologies
Describe at least three industry standard design methodologies that can be used in security architecture design.
Section 2: Security architecture design
Security solution
As per your planning in Section 1, you are to design the security architecture. As you know security architecture is a broad term and your security solution will depend on the design you have adopted. However, as a minimum the design of your security architecture must include:
Overall objectives for security based on business objectivesRisk assessment
Conceptual architecture develop and provide at least one document to address this e.g. an information security policy or a security strategy.
Physical architecture document the physical architecture that will be used as part of your security solution.
Component architecture define and describe the security standards that will be followed
Operational architecture as a minimum describe access management and how network security will be monitored.
Outline your security solution here. Attach evidence to support the solution you have designed.
Security solution justification
Explain how your security design utilises industry standard design methodologies, as well as meets the desired security requirements for the business. Feedback
Document an email here to management (your assessor) seeking feedback on your security solution
Feedback
Record the feedback you received and how you responded to it.
Case Study GROW MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
Established five years ago, Grow Management Consultants specialises in providing services to companies that assist them to improve their employees leadership performance.
Grow Management Consultants draws on its up-to-date knowledge and skills in best practice leadership concepts to assist clients with leadership performance.
Grow Management Consultants are committed to promoting individual and organisational leadership excellence. We do this by providing:
mentoring training
coaching
management consultation
management program evaluation
development of cutting-edge tools, resources and expert advice
sharing best and next practices
leading organisations through the process of creating a leadership culturerecognising and celebrating excellence in leadership.
Grow Management Consultants encourages and nurtures a culture that ensures that our team is dynamic and innovative and maintains the highest possible client service standards.
The core values underpinning all of our activities are:
Quality
Innovation
Respect
Reliability.
Grow Management Consultants continues to build deeper customer relationships through:
customer-centred practice, with a focus on meeting their total needs for high-quality managementstrengthen the skills of our people, to better support customers
drive innovation to better meet customer demands.
We plan to expand our client base by:
improving our marketing and advertising
continually improving the quality of service given to clients
maintaining effective communication channels with all stakeholders to ascertain industry requirements and then develop products and manage services accordinglycontinually improving communication channels with all our stakeholders, ensuring a flow of timely and accurate information to facilitate effective planning and decision makingtargeting identified growth markets with planned, market appropriate campaigns employing a variety of promotional strategies and advertising mediums
offering attractive fee structures to our clients
continually improving the skills, knowledge and effectiveness of Grow Management Consultants through our commitment to training and development
regularly reviewing the effectiveness of all our operations and making improvements when and where necessary.
Technology and future growth
Grow Management Consultants head office includes 6 desktop workstations that are used by administrative staff and management. Consultants use their own laptops when they come to the office which is only occasionally.
Office 365 is used and all staff communicate using the Office 365 communication system. Data is stored in OneDrive and can be accessed by all staff with permissions given for various data depending on the staff member and the data they need to access.
The company is about to establish two new offices in capital cities. Further due to this expansion, the company has identified that a robust enterprise architecture is required.
At a recent management meeting, the following points were discussed regarding IT security:
There needs to be clear strategy for IT security, as well as an IT Security Policy.
There needs to be strong security requirements in place to secure the IT system.
Features of the security architecture need to be based on risks to the business.
A multilevel security mode is needed such that everyone must have permission to access the system but specific access for specific data will be required.
The system must protect all types of data held by the business, including both data at rest and data in transit.
As an enterprise security system is new for the business, the following baseline procedures were established to be followed in designing the security architecture:
A report on the proposed security architecture must be provided prior to implementation. This must also include setting out the business requirements for security architecture, as well as key features required.
The security solution must be clearly set out and include how the system will be tested, as well as metrics to test the effectiveness of the system.
Strategic Plan Grow Management Consultants
WelcomeWelcome to the Strategic Plan for Grow Management Consultants.
This document sets out our vision for the next three years and how we hope to achieve it.
We hope you enjoy reading this document.
Paul Burns
CEO
Grow Management Consultants
Executive SummaryEstablished five years ago, Grow Management Consultants is a management consultancy company specialising in providing services to companies to assist them to improve the leadership performance of their staff. Grow Management Consultancy draws on its up-to-date knowledge and skills in best practice leadership concepts to assist clients with leadership performance
Mission StatementGrow Management Consultants are committed to promoting individual and organisational leadership excellence. We do this by providing mentoring training, coaching, consultation and program evaluation; offering cutting edge tools, resources and expert advice; sharing best and next practices; leading organizations through the process of creating a leadership culture; and, recognising and celebrating excellence in leadership.
Values
Our values are:Core values underpinning our activities are:
Quality
Innovation
Respect
Reliability.
Strategic Priorities
To be well led, high performing, profitable and accountable
Ensure that all financial operations, performance indicators and results support the strategic policiesIdentify new and expand existing sources of revenue, including establishing a training college to offer accredited training in leadership
Achieve profits of at least 10% per annum.
Develop services to meet customer needs and aspirations
Increase range of services offered to include change management and diversityOffer an annual conference and workshops as a means to develop target customer skills and offer networking opportunities.
Continue building deeper customer relationshipsCustomer-centred practice, with a focus on meeting their total needs for high-quality managementStrengthen the skills of our people, to better support customers
Drive innovation to better meet customer demands
Attract, engage and develop the best staffContinuing the drive to a customer centred, high performance workforce and cultureStrengthening the skills of our people, to better support customer needs
Empowering innovation and responsiveness to changeContinuing to enhance the diversity of our workforce.
Employing additional consultants
Developing our human resources by implementing a formal human resources framework
Exploring the use of technology in human resources
The MarketThe Management Consulting industry has grown weakly over the past five years. Poor demand from downstream markets constrained industry revenue growth, with financial services and resources firms cutting spending on management consultants due to economic uncertainty and falling commodity prices.
However, businesses using management consultants to introduce new business processes and enhance operating efficiencies have partly offset this trend. Industry operators have also increasingly incorporated analytics into their services, which offer clients greater understanding of their business and clients. Demand for services backed by analytics is expected to contribute to growth of 3.8% per annum until at least 2025.
Research also shows that there is a need for workers to have strong leadership and management skills to support collaborative management, managing teams for a distance, empowering others and business acumen. Thus, the demand for leadership consultancy services is still strong.
Situation AnalysisStrengths Weaknesses
Value and quality
Strong management
Customer loyalty
Friendly organisational culture
Level of available finance for investment Brand name not developed as yetSmall organisation
Lack of secure IT system
Opportunities Threats
Leadership skills in demand
Opportunities to offer a range of services
Opportunities for synergies across all services and products High level of competition
Economic downturn meaning less spent on consultantsFailing to satisfy clients demands
Cyber attacks
Marketing StrategiesOur marketing strategies aim to:
Build our brandGenerate leads nowConvert those leads quicklyHave every part of the business supporting each otherWe plan to develop our market share by:
Improving our marketing and advertising
Continually improving the quality of service given to clients
Maintaining effective communication channels with all stakeholders to ascertain industry requirements and then develop products and manage services accordinglyContinually improving communication channels with all our stakeholders, ensuring a flow of timely and accurate information to facilitate effective planning and decision makingTargeting identified growth markets with planned, market appropriate campaigns employing a variety of promotional strategies and advertising mediums
Offering attractive fee structures to our clients
Continually improving the skills, knowledge and effectiveness of Grow Management Consultants through our commitment to training and development
Regularly reviewing the effectiveness of all our operations and making improvements when and where necessary.
Marketing priorities
Design and develop a monthly newsletter to send out to all clients.
Create a blog page on web site to provide regular latest news.
Key projects
The following key projects will commence in 2021:
Leadership Conference
Grow Management Consultants will provide an annual Leadership Conference every year in October. Speakers will be industry and academic leaders who are well known and respected. Participants will be high level and emerging leaders. The conference will be held in Sydney in 2021 and then in Melbourne in 2022 and Brisbane in 2023.
The outcome of the conference will also be to advertise the companys consultancy services.
The investment cost of this project will be $105,000 approximately which will include marketing, speaker costs and venue costs. The projected income is $300,000, therefore an overall project of approximately $200,000.
The timelines for this project is commencement in January 2021 and a conference date in late October.
Professional Development Workshops
Grow Management Consultants will also regular professional development workshops on all aspects of leading and managing staff. The workshops will be conducted four time annually in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. The workshops will run for three hours and will also be a networking events. The outcome of the workshops will also be to advertise the companys consultancy services. The investment cost of this project for year 1 will be $40,000 which will include marketing, travel costs for consultants and venue costs. The projected income is $80,000.
This project will commence in late 2021 with the first workshop to be held in late March.
eBooks
Two new eBooks will be developed with the total investment being $20,000 and expected sales of $50,000. The books will be marketed through the website and at the conference and workshops.
This project will commence late 2021 with the books expected to be published in mid-June.
Expected synergies across projectsWe aim to create synergies across all of our projects to offer a greater choice of services to customers, increase profits and grow our brand presence.
For example, planned future actions for 2021 include setting up a membership scheme whereby clients can access a number of workshops a year plus the conference plus a number of eBooks. The cost of the membership will be cheaper than buying all of these services individually. The number of services to be offered will need to be discussed by project managers.
