APU ISSC661 Week 8 Assignment-Risk Assessment Case
Study
Question
Instructions: The Risk Assessment case study will use
NIST
SpecialPublication 800-30 (available at
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-30rev1/SP800-30-Rev1-ipd.pdf
or in the Course Resources area) as the basis for
performing
a risk assessment of a selected computing system. Using
the Week 6 information
wherein you selected your information system for
assessment a initially
populated Tables I-5 and I-7 from the NIST SP800-30,
you will now finalize the
creation and population of your adversarial and a nonadversarial risk
assessment patterned after Table I-5 and Table I-7 in
NIST SP 800-30 – this
means that you should fill out those two templates as a
minimum as part of your
assessment – and provide discussion and analysis from
that assessment. This
case study will count for 10% of the final grade. This
case study will be due
at the end of Week 8. The case study should be between
7-8 pages long (not
counting the Cover and Reference pages), the Tables can
either be embedded in
the text of your discussion or included as attachments
to your paper, and will
follow a conventional paper format (Cover page, Body of
Paper with
introduction, risk assessment / discussion / analysis /
argument / body,
conclusion, and references pages). See the Writing
Expectations contained in
the Policies section of the Syllabus for specific focus
areas / guidance as
well as conforming with APA 6th edition style
guidelines.
Submission Instructions: See the Writing Instructions
in
your Syllabus as well as inserted below. Please submit
a Word document in the
defined format to your Assignment folder by 11:55PM,
Sunday, EST. Your writing
assignment will automatically be run through TurnItIn
(just submit, you do
nothing else) to aid in preparing for your Final
Research Paper, and also as a
tool to help with proper citation of research source
material and appropriate
attribution of that material. The level of expectation
is; All submission need
to be under 15% total originality score, with each
individual references no
higher than 2% originality score.