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Case Study of Academics for Academics or A4A

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Case Study of Academics for Academics or A4A

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Running head: ACADEMICS FOR ACADEMICS CASE STUDYAcademics For Academics Case StudyName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor’s Note:
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1ACADEMICS FOR ACADEMICS CASE STUDYExecutive SummaryThe main objective of this report is to understand the basic concept of the case study ofAcademics For Academics or A4A. It is a non-governmental organization or commonly knownas NGO. This non-governmental organization has its head office in Sydney and its branch officein Singapore. The projects and the activities of this organization are sponsored by the donationsthat come from public. A4A has a team of total ten members. Out of these six members arepresent in Sydney office, whereas, the rest four members are present in the Singapore office. Themain job of this organization is to help the private and the public colleges and universities inSoutheast Asia and Australia. The information is stored in an information system. The aim ofthis report is to identify the security risks that are probable for the information system and tomanage those risks and threats.
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2ACADEMICS FOR ACADEMICS CASE STUDYTable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Discussion........................................................................................................................................4Academics For Academics..........................................................................................................4Information Security Risks..........................................................................................................5Management of Security Risks....................................................................................................9Assumptions..................................................................................................................................11Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12References......................................................................................................................................14
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3ACADEMICS FOR ACADEMICS CASE STUDYIntroductionA recognized and popular Non-Governmental Organization or NGO namely AcademicsFor Academics or A4A has the head office in Sydney and its branch office in Singapore. Thefunds of all the activities projects of this particular organization mainly come from publicdonations (Fleischmann et al. 2014). They do not sponsor any money from themselves. This non-governmental organization has a team of total ten staff members. The Sydney office has six staffmembers amongst the ten and the rest four members are present in the office of Singapore. Inspite of working in two different locations, which are Sydney and Singapore, all the ten staffmembers’ together work as a team to obtain the organizational goals and objectives. ThisAcademics For Academic was established for helping all the small private and public collegesand universities in Southeast Asia and Australia (Awadh and Alyahya 2013). These universities,who want to receive the services of A4A have to register themselves and become members ofA4A. This organization has to store their confidential information in the information system.However, this information system can have many security risks and data breaches.The following report outlines a brief description on the case study of Academics ForAcademics or A4A. This non-governmental organization has all the confidential data andinformation stored and kept in their information security system. This information securitysystem helps them to manipulate, retrieve and store information easily and quickly (Vaccaro etal. 2012). The report provides a discussion on the probable security risks and the ways tomitigate or manage these risks. These risks can be extremely harmful for any organization andtheir information security system. However, these risks can be controlled by certain measures.
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