ISSC661 Week 6 Assignment Risk Assessment Tables Latest 2017 January

Assignment Instructions

Instructions: This assignment will use NIST Special Publication 800-30 (available at

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-30-rev1/SP800-30-Rev1-ipd.pdf

or in the Course Resources area) as its basis. The selected computing system can be your personal home network (e.g., from ISP appliance to connections within your home location), a work oriented network, or a public network (e.g., public library, commercial venue, free Wifi hotspot). In this assignment, initial creation and population of adversarial and a non-adversarial risk assessment tables patterned after Table I-5 and Table I-7 in NIST SP 800-30 will be performed. This assignment is intended to prepare for the Week 8 applied risk assessment assignment, wherein you will use these populated tables to gain insight in the selected system's risks, apply knowledge from this course, apply relevant information security metrics, and discuss the considerations that should go into an actual information security risk assessment discussion -- limited to adversarial and non-adversarial threats. This means that you should fill out those two templates as a minimum as part of your The deliverable for this assignment should be a brief description of your selected information system and Tables I-5 and I-7 created and populated.

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.