Confidential Information Policy for Cosmos News Organisation

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COIT20263 Information Security Management - Assessment Item 2 (Term 1,
2018)
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1 Statement of Purpose
The organisation Cosmos is one of the leading organisation in the
Australia which provides best and the most authenticated new and
information. The organisation does to have any in-house journalist unlike the
other news providers, rather the organisations work depends on the freelancer
journalist or news provider. Security and confidentiality and the authenticated
source of data are the utmost importance to the COSMOS. It is the
responsibility of the users and freelancers to maintain the importance and the
dignity of the organisation rules and regulations. IT is the work of the
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freelancers to gather authenticated news upload the same on behalf of the
organisation. The organisation has every right of the news that are been
provided by the freelancers. Also the freelancers are strictly advised not to
copy any other news channels news and upload it on behalf of the cosmos.
The users also needs to maintain certain rules and regulations having the
articles and reading the same. In case of the advertisement agencies, the
Cosmos publish most of the advertisement that are been provided part form
the ones that violets the norms of the media article and the Australia
government (Kirchner and Wilhelm 2018). The providers must be sure that
the all the advertisement are secure before asking us to produce the same. It is
to be understood and signed by all the customers and the people for the
organisation and accept the terms and the policies of the organisation. This
will not only hep the organisation to maintain the decorum of the business but
also help the customer for the same. The agreement is beneficial both ways.
The employment of the in house permanent employees are also subject to
terms and condition and if any false or wrong doing is found to be done then
the employee might be sacked from the organisation.
Given in this form are all the information, rules and regulation that a
individual has to follow be it a advertisement agency, freelancer or a user of
the organisation.
2 Authorised Uses
An authorised user is one who can use the portal of the organisation
for reading the news provided by the organisation. In order to become the
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authorised user of the organisation an individual has to accept the terms and
the policies that are being provided the form that is before the payment, and
pay a minimal sum for the access (Bakshi 2014). The organisation has the
rights to reform and sack any users account of any illegal activity is found on
the accounts. In order to access the news the user needs to register the devise
the users is going to use. One email id can be used once and will be conducted
as a new user if repeated. It is the responsibility of the user not to disclose the
login details with others.
3 Prohibited Uses
Very small amount of the news articles and videos are found free on
the website of the organisation, as because of the factor that it is not possible
to provide free news, other than the authorised users who pays a small amount
of money in order to read the articles of the organisation, any other users is
termed as the prohibited user and cannot access the Cosmos news (Kilgo et
al . 2016). That is the people or the users who are unable or rather unwilling to
pay any money for getting the articles and the videos are termed as the
prohibited users.
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4 Systems Management
The organisation has very well developed system management
system. The Cosmos in-house consist of the permanent staffs, like the CEO of
the organisation who is responsible for each and every work of the COSMOS,
the finance manager who is responsible for the financing staffs of the
organisation (Hess 2013. ). The HR manager, whose work is to find and
recruit the best freelancers and the provide them will the tasks. And finally the
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