ISE 620 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The final project for this course is the creation of a security posture and response analysis report. Throughout this course, there will be key milestone
activities that will give you adequate time to research, analyze, and put together your report. These milestones are designed to build upon each other so that
you can get started on key aspects of your final project and receive feedback from your instructor for improving your work as you draft your report.
For this milestone, you will submit a fact-finding and state selection brief. The scoring of this milestone will be based on whether you have demonstrated that
you have reviewed the key materials needed to successfully complete your final project. Remember to review the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document
for how you will be scored on your final submission. Completing this milestone now will be important, as legislation plays a crucial role in an organization’s
security policy. This milestone will also help prepare you for Module Three, which explores the relationship between legislation and an organization’s security
policy.
Prompt: Imagine you are a cybersecurity consultant working for Business Secure, a fictitious cybersecurity firm. Business Secure has been approached by Health
Network Inc. (HealthNet), a fictitious health services organization. HealthNet would like Business Secure to develop a request for proposal (RFP) based on
HealthNet’s security needs. Review the information on HealthNet in the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document (in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics
section of the course). Then submit a brief that identifies the organization and location, the company’s basic information systems, the stakeholders, and the
network itself. Keep in mind that while your final project will evaluate all of HealthNet’s policies and security measures, you will select one corporate office to
focus on for state legislation: California (HQ), Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, or Washington State. Make sure you specify which state you will focus on for the state
legislation. It is important to note that some states have cybersecurity legislation that impacts organizations.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Company Background
a) Briefly describe the organization and its information systems.
b) Who are the stakeholders of the organization’s information systems, specifically the network in question?
II. State Selection and Resources
a) Identify the state you have selected for the project (the HealthNet office in California, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, or Washington State).
b) Identify three resources that will be helpful for you to use in analyzing the legislative impacts for your state. Your choices may include any
provided to you within the course.
III. Articulation of Response
a) As always, your submission should have no major errors related to gramm.
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1. ISE 620 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The final project for this course is the creation of a
security posture and response analysis report. Throughout this
course, there will be key milestone
activities that will give you adequate time to research, analyze,
and put together your report. These milestones are designed to
build upon each other so that
you can get started on key aspects of your final project and
receive feedback from your instructor for improving your work
as you draft your report.
For this milestone, you will submit a fact-finding and state
selection brief. The scoring of this milestone will be based on
whether you have demonstrated that
you have reviewed the key materials needed to successfully
complete your final project. Remember to review the Final
Project Guidelines and Rubric document
for how you will be scored on your final submission.
Completing this milestone now will be important, as legislation
plays a crucial role in an organization’s
security policy. This milestone will also help prepare you for
Module Three, which explores the relationship between
legislation and an organization’s security
policy.
Prompt: Imagine you are a cybersecurity consultant working for
Business Secure, a fictitious cybersecurity firm. Business
Secure has been approached by Health
Network Inc. (HealthNet), a fictitious health services
organization. HealthNet would like Business Secure to develop
2. a request for proposal (RFP) based on
HealthNet’s security needs. Review the information on
HealthNet in the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document
(in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics
section of the course). Then submit a brief that identifies the
organization and location, the company’s basic information
systems, the stakeholders, and the
network itself. Keep in mind that while your final project will
evaluate all of HealthNet’s policies and security measures, you
will select one corporate office to
focus on for state legislation: California (HQ), Illinois, Nevada,
Oregon, or Washington State. Make sure you specify which
state you will focus on for the state
legislation. It is important to note that some states have
cybersecurity legislation that impacts organizations.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Company Background
a) Briefly describe the organization and its information systems.
b) Who are the stakeholders of the organization’s information
systems, specifically the network in question?
II. State Selection and Resources
a) Identify the state you have selected for the project (the
HealthNet office in California, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, or
Washington State).
b) Identify three resources that will be helpful for you to use in
analyzing the legislative impacts for your state. Your choices
may include any
provided to you within the course.
III. Articulation of Response
a) As always, your submission should have no major errors
3. related to grammar, citations, spelling, syntax, or organization.
You will be using
APA format for your resources in your final project, so
submitting your choices in APA format now will ensure you
will be able to address any
errors in time for your final submission.
Guidelines for Submission: Your brief must be submitted as a 1-
to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-
point Times New Roman font,
one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA
format.
Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in
Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade
Center. For more information,
review these instructions.
Critical Elements Attempted With Minimal or No Functional
Issue
Attempted With Significant Functional
Issues
Not Evident in Submission Value
Organization and
Information Systems
Briefly describes organization and its
4. information systems, with minimal or no
issues in communicating description (100%)
Describes organization and its information
systems, but description lacks some
significant details or has inaccuracies in
communicating description (75%)
Does not describe organization or its
information systems (0%)
25
Stakeholders and
Network
Describes key stakeholders and key aspects
of network with minimal or no issues in
description (100%)
Describes stakeholders and aspects of
network, but description lacks significant
details or has inaccuracies (75%)
Does not describe key stakeholders or key
aspects of network (0%)
25
State Selection Selects a state to focus on for the project
(100%)
Does not select a state to focus on for the
project (0%)
20
5. Resources Identifies at least three resources that will
be used for analyzing the legislative impacts,
with minimal or no issues in effectiveness of
the sources (100%)
Identifies at least three resources that will
be used for analyzing the legislative impacts,
but with significant gaps in effectiveness of
sources (75%)
Does not identify at least three resources
that will be used for analyzing the legislative
impacts (0%)
20
Articulation of
Response
Submission has no major errors related to
grammar, citations, spelling, syntax, or
organization (100%)
Submission has major errors related to
grammar, citations, spelling, syntax, or
organization that negatively impact
readability and articulation of main ideas
(75%)
Submission has critical errors related to
grammar, citations, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent understanding of
ideas (0%)
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