Information Assurance and Risk Management Assignment 2022

Running head: INFORMATION ASSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION ASSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

INFORMATION ASSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Objective of Operational Metrics...............................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
Reference....................................................................................................................................8

INFORMATION ASSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT2
Introduction
This paper focuses on security compliance and organisation metrics for evaluating the
efficacy of organisational information assurance program. This paper helps to develop the
organisational policy and operational metrics that ensures that the comprehensive information
assurance program is functional and aligns strategically in the organisation for achieving
compliance goals (Brotby 2016). The assurance means ensuring trust for the development of
the system, which conveys confidence for the clients. The organisation faces some problems
with security engineering by measures and metrics that can assure a secured hardware and
software system. This purpose of this paper is to ensure information assurance metrics that
may help the organisation to meet the objective for security mechanism. It focuses on the
organisational scenario where the security of HR department is unsafe and needs more
security provisions for implementing efficacy of the information assurance program. The
concept of security metrics consists of product evaluation criteria identification, risk
assessment methodology development, and information assurance strength qualification.
The operational metrics are the end- to- end measures for operational support in the
organisation. The operational metrics or the purpose of organisation’s security program is to
monitor the work environment of the organisation. It checks for the security program and
evaluates operational readiness of the organisation. It provides with the effectiveness in
providing the organisation with information assurance. The need of security in the HR
department can be established by the help of operational readiness metrics (Cho 2016). The
operational readiness metrics is divided into three categories. Below are the operational
metrics for Information Assurance Measures-
 Operational readiness metrics
 Operational practice metrics