The assignment requires the completion of a risk assessment for an IT security professional working at CobWeb, a website development company with 300 employees and one corporate office in London. The goal is to produce a report to management recommending security controls to mitigate risks associated with data loss due to employee negligence, physical break-ins, lack of understanding among employees regarding security expectations, unrestricted network access, and the recent hacking of the company's home webpage. The assessment involves identifying data assets, threats, vulnerability matrices, risk calculations using automated tools, proposing countermeasures, and justifying recommendations.