Security and Privacy Risk Assessment for DAS

DAS MANAGEMENT
SECURITY AND PRIVACY RISK
ASSESSMENT FOR THE DAS

Introduction
The topics to be discussed:
 The presentation is based on the Department of Administrative Service.
 The security assessment and the privacy risk assessment are discussed.
 A software named BambooHR is selected which is a SaaS application software
for HR management which is discussed in the presentation.
 The security implications and the privacy implications are also discussed in the
presentation.
 Issue related to data sensitivity of the organisation are also discussed in the
presentation and the issues which are related to data sovereignty are discussed
here.
 The presentation will provide a clear conclusion regarding HR management
software solution along with the security and risk assessment.

SaaS application- BambooHR
About BambooHR:
 BambooHR is a SaaS application which originates from a US based company.
 The application provides a solution for the HR department of an organisation
(Pugh et al., 2015).
 All the activities that are performed by HR can be managed by this
application. This application helps the HR to perform their tasks with more
focus and security.

Operational solution of
BambooHR
The solution provided by BambooHR are as follows:
 BambooHR handles a numerous number of operational solutions of HR activities in a
compact structure.
 The overall agility, efficiency of the organisation increases (Zhou & Guan, 2018).
 The problems that the HR faced in managing all the different activities which causes the
increase of data redundancy and it becomes complex for the HR to navigate. This is the
reason BambooHR provides a better support to the HR department.

Affect on security posture of DAS
due to operational solution
 As most of the data of the employees of the organisation are in the hand
of the HR department, it is the responsibility for the HR to secure the data
(Syed et al., 2019).
 The software helps to manage better all the data of the employees by
providing role-based access and by providing data encryption.
 The application of operational solutions of BambooHR software the
security posture of DAS can be managed.

Operational Location of
BambooHR
 Due to the security concern of the important data of the
organisation it is very important to have an update of the
location where all the operations of the organisation are
performed (Lovrić & Horvat, 2016).
 In case of the change in locations of the operation BambooHR will
give instant update of the changed location.