Strategic Security Policy for Coles Supermarket

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Strategic Security Policy for Coles Supermarket
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Executive Summary
The report is based on understanding of the key security policies that would be set in order to
protect the internal networked systems at Coles Supermarket. The supermarket business
primarily deals with customer information, processing them and generating useful results. Thus,
this report puts forward a security policy, which would be able to bind the security systems used
within the network and revise their present polices. From the discussed security policy, the
threats and vulnerabilities that could affect the internal systems have also been discussed. Hence,
a proper mitigation action that could be undertaken have been focused upon in this report.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
2. Discussion....................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Documentation of a Strategic Security Policy for Coles Supermarket..................................3
2.2 Nature of Information Collected............................................................................................3
2.3 Policies regarding collection and holding of Personal Information......................................4
2.4 Purpose of Handling Customer Information..........................................................................5
2.5 Digital Services......................................................................................................................6
2.7 Identification of Potential Threats and Vulnerabilities..........................................................7
2.8 Mitigation Actions for the discussed Threats and Vulnerabilities.........................................7
3. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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1. Introduction
The Coles Supermarket have been considered as one of the most featured supermarket
chain located at the West of Sydney. The Coles Supermarket, which operates under the trade
name of Coles deals with various services such as retails and chain of consumer services. The
primary headquarters of the retail chain is located in Melbourne. The company also holds an
online presence in the market, which has been strategized for engaging powerful services to
customers. In the present times, there have been major kind of issues arising over the rising
number of internal and external threats and vulnerabilities towards the networks established by
the organisation (Manners-Bell 2017). The store deals with several kind of business transactions
and also stores critical assets, data and information within their internal networks.
The following sections in the report would mainly discuss about the kind of incidents that
might arise within the network. The other discussed topics within the report would be based on
the security vulnerabilities that might occur within the organisation and the ways in which new
techniques and policies could be helpful for protecting the internal networks and flow of
information within the organisation.
2. Discussion
2.1 Documentation of a Strategic Security Policy for Coles Supermarket
The Coles Supermarket deals with customer and business information, which are stored
within the internal networks and databases servers that are a part of the organization. The
security policy that would be defined for the organization would be prevalent across all
supermarket chain present within the organisational chain businesses (Donovan et al. 2015).
These includes Coles Financial Services, Coles Online, Coles Gift Cards Services and many
others. The security policy is thus defined for presenting personal information based on the
information that is being collected and handled by the internal security team.
2.2 Nature of Information Collected
The variety of information, which is been collected by Coles Supermarket are discussed
as:
1. Name and contact details of customers