Explain why SE is an important part of an information technology security course.

Individual Work (75 points):

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As you analyze any modern corporate setup, you will see that companies want to ensure that all users are aware of their own individual responsibility to help protect the enterprise. Social engineering (SE) is becoming a more prevalent threat at all levels of business. To combat it, you first need to understand it. Therefore, you must complete the following:

• Describe what social engineering is and explain its existence and prevalence.
• Explain why SE is an important part of an information technology security course.

Discuss employee and management responsibilities with regards to Information Security and combatting SE. Make sure your work clarifies your opinion as to who carries more responsibility for preventing SE, the employees or management? Provide examples to back up your statements.

Prepare a 1-page Word document that covers the above areas.

Group Work (135 points)

Your group is working for a global organization that handles highly classified intellectual property. In many situations and scenarios, the implementation and operations teams have been creating and setting up environments that violate your vision for security. After discussing the situation with various parties, they all admit they do not fully know or understand what is expected from them as they set up and configure the environment. To solve this situation, your group has been asked to create a network security policy for the organization.

Each group member will choose an element of the policy to design and the group will collaborate on what the overall design and outline should look like and include components from end user behavior and training plan, file and folder access, social engineering safeguards, bring your own device policies, use of external drives on company assets, security hardware, penetration testing, and affiliation of the information security department with law enforcement agencies. Students may either interview someone in the local FBI field office or research the FBI and DHS Web sites related to information sharing programs that the government offers, as this could be advantageous to the organization’s information security program.

• To keep the scope narrow, your group should first describe what should be included and what should not be included in the policy (remember that a policy should clearly set management’s expectations).
• After the scope has been defined, research the various components, and create an appropriate policy.

Prepare a Word document of 7-10 pages (excluding title page, abstract and references page) that includes the network security policy for an organization that addresses all of the stated design requirements. It should be in APA format, including an introduction and conclusion.

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Grading Rubric

Project CriteriaExceeds: 90%–100%Very good: 80%–89%Meets: 70%–79%Needs Improvement: Below 70%

Content
(40%)

Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary application of written, visual, or oral skills. Demonstrates outstanding expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Audience is addressed appropriately. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure are minimal. Organization is clear. Format is consistently appropriate to assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). The writing was of collegiate level with no errors in spelling or grammar.Demonstrates very good written, visual, or oral skills. Demonstrates sound expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Audience is usually addressed appropriately. Language does not interfere with the communication of ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure are present, but do not distract from the message. Organization is apparent and mostly clear. Format is appropriate to assignment, but not entirely consistent. The writing was of collegiate level with two or less errors in spelling or grammar.Demonstrates acceptable written, visual, or oral skills. Demonstrates reasonable expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Sometimes, audience is addressed appropriately. Language does not interfere with the communication of ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure are present and may distract from the message. Organization is a bit unclear. Format is inconsistent. The writing was of collegiate level with several errors in spelling or grammar.Demonstrates inadequate or partially proficient application of written, visual, or oral skills. Demonstrates inadequate or partial expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Audience is often not addressed appropriately. Language often impedes the communication of ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure are frequent and often distract from meaning or presentation. Organization is inadequate, confusing, and distracting. Format is inadequate and obscures meaning. The writing was less than collegiate level with numerous errors in spelling or grammar.

Effective Communication
(10%)

Multiple learner interactions per week that add to the discussion. Responses show evidence of critical analysis with questions to other classmates.At least three learner interactions per week that add to the discussion. Responses show evidence of critical analysis.No less than two learner interactions per week that add to the discussion. Responses show evidence of critical analysis.Zero to one learner interaction per week in the discussion board. Response lacks evidence of critical analysis.

Supporting Analysis
(25%)

Analysis exceeded minimum requirements. Appropriate sources were used to support analysis and were properly referenced.Basic analysis provided to support discussion. When appropriate to support discussion, appropriate sources were cited and properly referenced.Some limited analysis provided to support discussion. When appropriate to support discussion, sources were cited, appropriate, and properly referenced.No or inaccurate analysis, no sources were cited when needed, analysis and/or sources were not appropriate. When sources used, were not properly referenced.

Effective Planning and Execution of Project
(25%)

Student participated fully, offered significant contributions to the development of a plan that identified all necessary tasks. Student demonstrated exceptional team skills in most of these areas: collaboration, leadership, consensus building, negotiation, conflict resolution, respect, problem solving, management, organizational, time management, etc. Supported other team members at the highest level.Student participated at an adequate level (85%), offered reasonable suggestions for the development of a plan that identified nearly all necessary tasks. Student demonstrated very good team skills in several of these areas: collaboration, leadership, consensus building, negotiation, conflict resolution, respect, problem solving, management, organizational, time management, etc.. Provided support to other team members.Student participated in a limited fashion and contributed very little to the development of a plan that identified some of the necessary tasks. Student demonstrated at least one team skill (i.e. collaboration, leadership, consensus building, negotiation, conflict resolution, respect, problem solving, management, organizational, time management, etc.).Student participation and contributions were extremely insignificant to non-existent. Student failed to demonstrate any team skills (i.e. collaboration, leadership, consensus building, negotiation, conflict resolution, respect, problem solving, management, organizational, time management, etc.).