ISOL536 - Security Architecture and Design

Individual Assignment

University of the Cumberlands

School of Computer and Information Sciences

Instructor:  

 ISOL536-Security Architecture and Design

Assignment: Week 2 Individual Assignment 2

Length: Minimum of 600 words; MS Word

Total points: 100 points

Briefly respond to all the following questions. Make sure to explain and backup your responses with facts and examples. This

assignment should be in APA format and have to include at least two references or more.

Faced with the need to deliver risk ratings for your organization, you will have to substitute the organization’s risk

preferences for your own. For, indeed, it is the organization’s risk tolerance that the assessment is trying to achieve, not each

assessor’s personal risk preferences.

1. What is the risk posture for each particular system as it contributes to the overall risk posture of the organization?

2. Explain two of the attacks – its protections if any, in the presence (or absence) of active threat agents and their

capabilities, methods, and goals through each situation—add up to a system’s particular risk posture?