To aid in the risk assessment process, SterlingCrest will utilize a variety of tools to assess several types of risk with a department and prevent losses from occurring. The risk assessment tools will include questionnaires, location inspections, and employee interviews. In addition, the risk assessment will include a thorough review of the company’s processes, policies, procedure, regulatory compliance, along with historical loss for corporate departments and stores. Once the assessments are complete, efforts can be made to address potential
The organization should ensure they implement a business continuity plan as well as a disaster recovery plan to ensure that the organization can continue operating during an unexpected shutdown or disaster. This plan is often designed with the use of the information gathered during the risk analysis or assessment step. To effectively design and implement a business continuity plan the organization should ensure that there is an individual that is assigned to develop and implement the plan, determine how a disaster is identified, develop a recovery plan and test the plan periodically (Sayles,
It is important to identify and implement WHS procedures and instructions to keep aware of Possible hazardous occurrences, and to be on top of workplace WHS. It also accesses the Workplace regularly and keep employees notified. 7. Describe the procedure for identifying and reporting emergency incidents and injuries to designated persons in the
Organization Security Plan University of Maryland University College Adam Smith CSIA 413 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY An Information Security Plan is intended to protect information and critical resources from a variety of different threats in order to minimize business risk, maintain business continuity, and maximize cost-effectiveness of the efforts put in and business opportunities. Information security is achieved by enacting an appropriate set of controls, including policies, processes, procedures, and software and hardware functions. These controls should be established, implemented, monitored, reviewed and improved periodically, to ensure that the specific security and business objectives of the Department of Homeland Security are maintained. PURPOSE The purpose of this plan is to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and
This is when an auditor does an actual review of the processes and the security of these processes and makes “professional recommendations” on the implementation of systems, the security of the systems and software, and even recommendations on better implementation of the database management. SAS 70 is important for all processes, electronic and manual, that may be outsourced to third party companies or may be maintained by third party software. This report provides the company as well as the third parties with a report that provides information on the internal controls that are in place and their effectiveness within both businesses. This allows the organizations to determine whether or not they need to make changes to their processes to ensure the security of the data that is being shared between parties (Hunton, 2004, p. 217). Finally, SAS 94 addresses the need for the auditor, and its firm, to fully understand the programming and technology that is being used for any given company.
Emergency Management HCS 320 June 10, 2013 Emergency Management Handling a community emergency swiftly and establishing a handle on the issue is vital in order to maintain the public from starting a panic. It is important for an organization to establish communications within the organization and also establish communication lines to the public. To avoid multiple messages being sent out, the organization should establish a spokesperson that would speak out to the media and have any questions directed to. In a time of crisis the organization must be detailed and structured on how it handles and reports emergencies, also taking advantage of today’s technology by using its website or social media page to provide consistent updates
BCP Implementation Plan Austin Ford Western Governors University JIT2 – Risk Management Task B November 25, 2013 Business Continuity Plan (BCP) I. Pre-Incident Changes The Mosaic Company is a global corporation that counts on technology for e-mail, information, and financial reporting so it’s vital for Mosaic to be mature in safeguarding its assets, operations and continuity by safeguarding its assets. The disaster recovery is stated thoroughly in the plan for the data centers. The plan explains the duties, processes and activities needed to reduce the vital purposes of the infrastructure and client data. If properly implemented, the drive of the BCP is to mitigate the impact to the clients, reduce outages, and set objectives to re-institute business availability and guarantee the re-establishment of network availability and assets. The primary goal of the BCP for Mosaic is to have the Incident Response team in place so that systems, networks and data are recovered in a timely manner.
Emergency preparedness * Allocate responsibility for coordinating emergency response. * Provide workers with training and practice in emergency procedures. * Provide after-hours emergency contact details to Security Services. * Assign responsibility for providing first aid service, or identify accessible first aid service nearby. * Communicate details of nearest first aid officer eg.
The plan must address who is to perform specific duties during the recovery period. These people must be selected very carefully, alternates identified, and plans should be documented to train and test those individuals in the performance of their duties. * Review and update the current contingency plan for the hospital to ensure that it is flexible in order to respond to any type of internal or external disaster including nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorist threats. Update the current contingency plan to ensure that it outlines a chain of task delegation and communication to be activated by the upper level medical services supervisor on-site following notification from the administrator on call that emergency procedures are to be implemented (see Table A). * Conduct a business impact analysis to identify and prioritize critical systems, business processes, and components.
All steps in the proper disposal of customer’s information should be applied. 5. Hiring consultants that specialize in safe guarding customer’s information and the systems that can give the most optimal support (Stoneburner, 2002). Security Controls should be established in order to control the potential risks and threats. The following aspects should be followed to develop the security controls: 1.