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1. In your browser, navigate to https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/policyissues/information-security-policy-development-guide-large-small-companies-1331.

1. Read Sections 1-5 of the SANS Policy Development Guide.

1. Summarize the Policy Development Guide's recommendations for organizing a policy hierarchy and selecting policy topics.

1. In your browser, navigate to https://www.cio.com/article/3243684/what-is-cobit-a-framework-for-alignment-and-governance.html.

1. Describe the core principles and objectives of COBIT 2019.

1. Review the following list of risks, threats, and vulnerabilities at the fictional Healthwise Health Care Company.
   

• Unauthorized access from public Internet

• Hacker penetrates IT infrastructure

• Communication circuit outages

• Workstation operating system (OS) has a known software vulnerability

• Unauthorized access to organization-owned data

• Denial of service attack on organization’s e-mail

• Remote communications from home office

• Workstation browser has software vulnerability

• Weak ingress/egress traffic-filtering degrades performance

• Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access points are needed for Local Area Network (LAN) connectivity within a warehouse

• User destroys data in application, deletes all files, and gains access to internal network

• Fire destroys primary data center

• Intraoffice employee romance gone bad

• Loss of production data

• Need to prevent rogue users from unauthorized WLAN access

• LAN server OS has a known software vulnerability

• User downloads an unknown e-mail attachment

• Service provider has a major network outage

• User inserts a USB hard drive with personal photos, music, and videos on organization-owned computers

• Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunneling between the remote computer and ingress/egress router

1. For each risk, threat, or vulnerability in the list above, select an appropriate security policy that might help mitigate it. You can select one of the SANS policies or choose one from the following list.

Security Policies

• Acceptable Use Policy

• Access Control Policy

• Business Continuity—Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Policy

• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy

• Data Classification Standard and Encryption Policy

• Internet Ingress/Egress Traffic Policy

• Mandated Security Awareness Training Policy

• Production Data Backup Policy

• Remote Access Policy

• Vulnerability Management and Vulnerability Window Policy

• Wide Area Network (WAN) Service Availability Policy

1. Organize the security policies you selected so that they can be used as part of an overall framework for a layered security strategy.

A user at Digital Innovation Products has been using company network resources to download torrent files onto a USB drive and transfer those files to their home computer. IT tracked down the torrent traffic during a recent network audit. Unfortunately, the company does not have a current policy that restricts this type of activity.

Identify at least two appropriate policies that should be in place to define this type of behavior and the consequences thereof.

Write a brief overview for C-level executives explaining which policies should be added to the company's overall security policy framework, why they should be added, and how those policies could protect the company.