Instructions

Develop a Security Strategy and Plan (“Plan”) and a separate Recommendation Memo (“Memo”) addressed to the CIO. The Plan must communicate the security strategy and technologies (minimum of 3) that you are recommending be implemented to address the gaps (P1), requirements (P2), and technology evaluations (P3).

Your Plan must include a brief description for each of the technologies that you are proposing be implemented. You must also include information about associated costs, expected return on investment (ROI), mitigation of risks, barriers to success that apply to each technology.

Your Plan must also include a detailed Network Diagram illustrating how this technology fits into the infrastructure. This diagram must be constructed by you. You can MS Word’s drawing tools, Power Point, or other drawing program. You may use a screen snapshot but, this snapshot must clearly be your own work. (You may use commercial or “free” clip-art to represent individual end point devices or network appliances such as routers, firewalls, IDPS, etc.) Clip art does not need to be cited provided that it is clip art (not screen captures from another author’s work).

Putting It All Together

• The Recommendation Memo is a one page Executive Memo to the CIO summarizing and introducing the Plan. Use a professional format for your memo (consider using one of the MS Word templates).
• The Plan (your second deliverable for this assignment) is a 5-8 page document that includes a separate title page, your implementation plan narrative, your network diagram (with caption), and (if necessary) a reference list. Use a professional format for your document.
• Combine your Memo and your Plan in a single delivery package formatted as an MS Word document (Memo first, plan second, reference list at the end).