Imagine that you are a private information assurance (IA) consultant. The University Website is seeking to hire someone like you to devise a comprehensive ( IA) plan for the agency to protect their IT resources. Of course, you'd love to get the job, but you have to write a proposal asking for the business and convincing them that you know your stuff.
Your task in this assignment is to write a section of that proposal that lays out some of the( IA) challenges faced by an institute of this sort. An obvious one is: how do you control access to users (visitors, students, faculty, etc.) records so that they are accessible by those individuals with a need to know, but not anyone else. But there are lots of others. Describe five representative IA challenges that the institute will face. (You can use controlling access to client records as one of the five, if you like.)
Focus on Information Assurance aspects of security for an agency with a very sensitive mission. In a loose sense, you are doing a partial IA risk assessment for The University . The goal of this proposal section is to convince them that you understand the breadth of ( IA) challenges they will face and have thought about the various ( IA) needs within this setting, not that you have in mind specific solutions to these challenges. That is, don't spell out solutions to the challenges; just describe in some detail five out of the many IA problems that the agency must address. After all, your goal is to get the job so that you can later suggest solutions.