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TEMPLATE FOR YOUR ANSWERSCOIT20263 Information Security Management - Assessment Item 2 (Term 1, 2018)Names and student numbers of group members:Confidential Information PolicyMarkallocatedMark earned1 Statement of PurposeThe most significant purpose of this particular policy is the understanding andalso developing the Issue Specific Security Policy for a company, known asCosmos (Berger 2014). This particular company of Cosmos eventually isresponsible for publishing the online newspaper and the location of thisorganization is in Sydney, Australia. They have the global network of all typesof freelancer reporters. These specific reporters subsequently report theimportant and genuine news from each and every part of the world. All theclients of this particular organization, who have the wish to use or read thisonline newspaper, will at first have to register themselves within thisorganization (Ifinedo 2014). They would have to pay a smaller amount of cashto the organization for getting themselves registered here. The payment of thismoney should be done online and the customers do not have to visit to theorganization. The main income of this organization, Cosmos is from theseveral advertisements. These advertisements eventually comprise of theplayback videos and even live videos (Sommestad and Hallberg 2013). Theorganization of Cosmos has now decided to update all their policies ofinformation security for the systems or computers that are related toinformation. This particular project would be providing an Issue SpecificSecurity Policy for the organization with authorized uses, prohibited uses,systems management, policy violations, policy review, policy modificationand finally limitations and liabilities (Sommestad et al. 2014). Moreover,relevant assumptions and justification of the Issue Specific Security Policywill be provided. 32 Authorised UsesThe authorized uses refer to those users, who have registered themselves withthe organization successfully after making the payment of registration money(Cheng et al. 2013). These authorized users are the clients of these newspapersand can easily access and read the news from their paper. They maintain theaccurateness and security of the news and it is the duty of all the customers tomaintain the integrity of the news. 3

3 Prohibited UsesThe prohibited uses refer to those users, who have not registered themselveswith the organization and are still accessing the news with wrong intentions.They can even breach the data or news and can sell the news to otherorganizations (Kim, Yang and Park 2014). Cosmos has the complete right totake necessary actions against all these users and these actions can also belegal. 34 Systems ManagementThe systems management refers to the management of various systems orcomputers that are related with the organization of Cosmos. The networkadministrator is responsible for the overall checking and maintaining all thesystems of the organization and thus it is his responsibility to maintain theconfidentiality of the systems (Peltier 2013). As they are the organization ofonline newspaper, any type of system problem would be lead to majordestruction. Furthermore, the freelancer reporters would be having varioustelecommunications devices for the purpose of their news reporting. If anytype of problem occurs within those devices, the freelancers will not be able towork and thus the customers would not be getting any news from them (Peltier2016). The systems management is thus one of the most important factors forthe organization of Cosmos. 35 Violations of PolicyThis is the fifth important factor in an Issue Specific Security Policy (Crossleret al. 2013). The policies of the organization should be maintained properlyand if any type of discrepancies is noticed or rather the policy is violated, theorganization of Cosmos has the full right to sack that employee or reporter.This type of problem mainly occurs with the prohibited users, who do notfollow the rules and regulations for using the online newspaper. If theprohibited users violate the policy, legal actions are to be taken against him orher and he or she would be put behind the bars (Wall, Palvia and Lowry2013). The news breaching is thus stopped with this and the customers wouldgetting accurate news from anywhere in the world. 36 Policy Review and ModificationThe policy should be timely reviewed and modified on a timely manner. Theanalysis is eventually done by the administrators of the company. If theynotice, that any type of changes is required in the policy, they would changethem evenly (Ahmad, Maynard and Park 2014). Once, the review is done andmodifications are made, the entire changed policy is to be reported to thetechnical expert. The up gradation of technology is the basic requirement inany organization and the Issue Specific Security Policy should be reviewed aswell as modified for this particular purpose ( Yeo, Pak and Yang 2013).Moreover, the freelancers are working in poor Internet connectivity places andthe devices of these reporters are provided by the organization. If these3

devices do not work properly, the freelancer will not be able to work properly.Hence, the technology should be checked regularly. Furthermore, the newsshould not lose its integrity (Siponen, Mahmood and Pahnila 2014). Thisparticular factor should also be maintained. Thus, Issue Specific SecurityPolicy should require proper review and modifications. 7 Limitations of LiabilityCosmos do not have any liability to pay for the prohibited users. Theprohibited users should be checked properly and necessary actions should betaken for them subsequently. As they are dealing with various types of news,there is absolutely zero tolerance of fake news or forged news within it (Safaet al. 2015). If this type of situation arises, they have the complete right to takenecessary action or even terminate their employees in the scenario. Hence theyhave no liability to pay off. 3JustificationOne of the most popular and significant online newspapers in the world,known as the Cosmos organization is making the globalized network for alltypes of freelancer reporters in all over the world. This particular organizationis located in Sydney, Australia and is extremely famous in its field. For thepresence or existence of the global network, they have the ability to delivernews in the entire world and without any kind of time constraints. All theclients, who have the ability or the wish to obtain news from this specificnewspaper, have to register themselves within the online newspapers after thesuccessful payment of a very small amount of registration fees. Once, theyhave successfully registered themselves with the newspaper; they could evenwatch live videos of news and read the newspaper very often. Since, there isno time constraint, the clients can watch the news and read newspaper anytime and from anywhere in the world. The major income of this particularorganization is from the several advertisements that comprise of the playbackvideos as well as the live streaming of news. These advertisements could befrom anywhere. It can be from any specific person or can even be from thevarious companies. The one and only restriction in this phase is that thesecompanies or persons should be eventually complied with all the rules andregulations of Australian government. They should also follow the guidelinesof Australian government. It has been calculated that during the starting year or beginning, the number ofcustomers would be lesser and it would be around 100,000. However, asseveral days will pass, the number would be incrementing exponentially andwithin the time period of three years, this number would be touching morethan 500,000. This particular organization also provide various devices oftelecommunications to all of its freelancer reporters with the sole motive tolive report the news within those places where there is no Internet connectionor where the Internet connection is poor. The data or the information ofCosmos organization is subsequently controlled or managed by them in aspecific way that does not allow any type of data theft or breaching. As theyare the newspaper organization, the data should be preserved and managedexplicitly, so that there is no loophole of data theft. The integrity as well as theconfidentiality of the data is solely maintained by them. This organization has6

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