DAS and Shared Service Approach: Security Threats and Contingency Plans

DAS AND
SHARED
SERVICE
APPROACH

Introduction:
The report aims in discussing and evaluating the case study
scenario of the the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) in
Australia, where it delivers several services to the departments
that are undertaken by the Australian Government. The main
service that is been delivered by them comprises of HR and
personal management, contract tendering, payroll, contractor
management and procurement. The services are dependent on the
data centers of the DAS department (Rittinghouse & Ransome,
2017).
According to the revised policy change that has been done by the
Australian government, the department working under the system
is forced to come down under the shared Service system.
According to the specific system, all the services under the
government that are looked at after by the DAS are commanded to
get combined under one centralized system under the government.

For achieving the motive of centralizing the system under one unit, the
government has declared and suggested the implementation of the new
approach which is known as the CLOUD FIRST process. The changes that
need to be done by the governmental organization needs the assistance of
the SAAS solution and implementation t5hat has been discussed to be
bought form a US undertaking company.
The previous report where the development procedure and the utilization
factors of the SaaS technology for the management of the HR personal
within the DAS infrastructure has been stated, it has been evaluated that
the implementation of the SaaS technology was one of the vital process
that has been used for achieving the desired outcome (Lewandowski,
Salako & Garcia-Perez, 2013).
The SaaS Solutions is known as the Software as a Security solution. It
deals with the type of the model which develops the applications or
software for the security implementation of the organization . This is
developed by a third party who creates and hosts the software applications
which is available to tne users in a form of online web browser page.

SECURITY THREATS AND THE
CONTINGENCY PLANS BEFORE
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF
SAAS:
Password loosing risk by employees: This has a
Very High Likelihood along with Very High
Impact and the priority has been set Very High.
The preventing Actions are Implementation of
SaaS technology (Bildosola et al., 2015).
Security threats caused by emails: This has a
High likelihood and High impact which has a
High priority. The preventive measures
comprise of allocation of efficient access
controls on the emails.