DescriptionProject: Risk Management Plan
Purpose
This project provides an opportunity to apply the competencies gained in the lessons of this course to
develop a risk management plan for a fictitious organization to replace its outdated plan.
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
You will gain an overall understanding of risk management, its importance, and critical processes
required when developing a formal risk management plan for an organization.
Deliverables
As discussed in this course, risk management is an important process for all organizations. This is
particularly true in information systems, which provides critical support for organizational missions. The
heart of risk management is a formal risk management plan. The project activities described in this
document allow you to fulfill the role of an employee participating in the risk management process in a
specific business situation.
The project is structured as follows:
Week
Project Part
Deliverable
Due Date
2
Project Part 1
Task 1: Risk Management Plan
01/22/2023
3
Task 2: Risk Assessment Plan
01/29/2023
5
Task 3: Risk Mitigation Plan
02/12/2023
Task 1: Business Impact Analysis
02/19/2023
6
Project Part 2
(BIA)
6
Task 2: Business Continuity Plan
02/19/2023
(BCP)
7
Task 3: Disaster Recovery Plan
02/26/2023
(DRP)
7
Task 4: Computer Incident
02/26/2023
Response Team (CIRT) Plan –
8
Final Project
Risk Management Plan Final
03/03/2023
(Last Thursday of the
class)
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Project: Risk Management Plan
Submission Requirements (Format for all submissions)
All project submissions should follow this format:
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Format: Microsoft Word or compatible
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Font: Arial, 12-point, double-space
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Citation Style: APA
Scenario – (Company you are consulting for background)
You are an information technology (IT) intern working for Health Network, Inc. (Health Network), a
fictitious health services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Health Network has over
600 employees throughout the organization and generates $500 million USD in annual revenue. The
company has two additional locations in Portland, Oregon and Arlington, Virginia, which support a mix of
corporate operations. Each corporate facility is located near a co-location data center, where production
systems are located and managed by third-party data center hosting vendors.
Company Products (products you need to assess for risk)
Health Network has three main products: HNetExchange, HNetPay, and HNetConnect.
HNetExchange is the primary source of revenue for the company. The service handles secure electronic
medical messages that originate from its customers, such as large hospitals, which are then routed to
receiving customers such as clinics.
HNetPay is a Web portal used by many of the company’s HNetExchange customers to support the
management of secure payments and billing. The HNetPay Web portal, hosted at Health Network
production sites, accepts various forms of payments and interacts with credit-card processing
organizations much like a Web commerce shopping cart.
HNetConnect is an online directory that lists doctors, clinics, and other medical facilities to allow Health
Network customers to find the right type of care at the right locations. It contains doctors’ personal
information, work addresses, medical certifications, and types of services that the doctors and clinics
offer. Doctors are given credentials and are able to update the information in their profile. Health Network
customers, which are the hospitals and clinics, connect to all three of the company’s products using
HTTPS connections. Doctors and potential patients are able to make payments and update their profiles
using Internet-accessible HTTPS Web sites.
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Project: Risk Management Plan
Information Technology Infrastructure Overview (area needing assessment for
risks)
Health Network operates in three production data centers that provide high availability across the
company’s products. The data centers host about 1,000 production servers, and Health Network
maintains 650 corporate laptops and company-issued mobile devices for its employees.
Threats Identified (areas the organization identified as risks; you will find other
risks)
Upon review of the current risk management plan, the following threats were identified:
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Loss of company data due to hardware being removed from production systems
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Loss of company information on lost or stolen company-owned assets, such as mobile devices
and laptops
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Loss of customers due to production outages caused by various events, such as natural
disasters, change management, unstable software, and so on
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Internet threats due to company products being accessible on the Internet
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Insider threats
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Changes in regulatory landscape that may impact operations
Management Request (what the client is expecting you to complete)
Senior management at Health Network has determined that the existing risk management plan for the
organization is out of date and a new risk management plan must be developed. Because of the
importance of risk management to the organization, senior management is committed to and supportive
of the project to develop a new plan. You have been assigned to develop this new plan.
Additional threats other than those described previously may be discovered when re-evaluating the
current threat landscape during the risk assessment phase.
The budget for this project has not been defined due to senior management’s desire to react to any and
all material risks that are identified within the new plan. Given the company’s annual revenue, reasonable
expectations can be determined.
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Project: Risk Management Plan
Templates References to use
The table below shows the list of NIST standards that need to be reviewed per deliverable. Other
documents and templates will be also provided.
Standard
Topic
800-30
Risk Assessment
800-34
BIA
800-37
RMF and RMP
800-53
Security and privacy controls
800-61
CIRT
800-84
Testing and training
800-50
Awareness and training
Project Part 1
Project Part 1 Task 1: Risk Management Plan – DUE WEEK 2
For the first part of the assigned project, you must create an initial draft of the final risk management plan.
To do so, you must:
1. Develop and provide an introduction to the plan by explaining its purpose and importance.
2. Create an outline for the completed risk management plan.
3. Define the scope and boundaries of the plan.
4. Research and summarize compliance laws and regulations that pertain to the organization.
5. Identify the key roles and responsibilities of individuals and departments within the organization
as they pertain to risk management.
6. Develop a proposed schedule for the risk management planning process .
7. Create a professional report detailing the information above as an initial draft of the risk
management plan.
Write an initial draft of the risk management plan as detailed in the instructions above. Your plan should
be made using a standard word processor format compatible with Microsoft Word.
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Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
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Did the student demonstrate an understanding of the competencies covered in the course thus
far?
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Did the student include all important components of a risk management plan in the outline?
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Did the student demonstrate good research, reasoning, and decision-making skills in identifying
key components and compliance laws and regulations?
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Did the student create a professional, well-developed draft with proper grammar, spelling, and
punctuation?
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Project Part 1 Task 2: Risk Assessment Plan – DUE WEEK 3
After creating an initial draft of the risk management plan, the second part of the assigned project requires
you to create a draft of the risk assessment (RA) plan. To do so, you must:
1. Develop an introduction to the plan explaining its purpose and importance.
2. Create an outline for the RA plan.
3. Define the scope and boundaries for the RA plan.
4. Research and summarize RA approaches.
5. Identify the key roles and responsibilities of individuals and departments within the organization
as they pertain to risk assessment.
6. Develop a proposed schedule for the RA process.
7. Create a professional report detailing the information above as an initial draft of the RA plan.
Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
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Did the student demonstrate an understanding of the competencies covered in the course relating
to risk assessments?
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Did the student include all important components of a RA plan in the outline?
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Did the student demonstrate good research, reasoning, and decision-making skills in identifying
key components and methodologies?
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Did the student create a professional, well-developed draft with proper grammar, spelling, and
punctuation?
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Project Part 1 Task 3: Risk Mitigation Plan – DUE WEEK 5
Senior management at Health Network allocated funds to support a risk mitigation plan, and have
requested that the risk manager and team create a plan in response to the deliverables produced within
the earlier phases of the project. The risk mitigation plan should address the identified threats described
in the scenario for this project, as well as any new threats that may have been discovered during the risk
assessment. You have been assigned to develop this new plan.
Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
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Did the student develop a high-quality risk mitigation plan based on material provided in the
course?
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Did the student use information obtained from the earlier parts of the project to build out a risk
mitigation plan?
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Did the student create a professional, well-developed draft with proper grammar, spelling, and
punctuation?
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Project Part 2
Project Part 2 Task 1: Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Plan – DUE WEEK 6
This part of the project is a continuation of Project Part 1 in which you prepared an RA plan and a risk
mitigation plan for Health Network. Senior management at the company has decided to allocate funds for
a business impact analysis (BIA). Because of the importance of risk management to the organization,
senior management is committed to and supportive of performing a BIA. You have been assigned to
develop the BIA plan.
Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
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Did the student complete a BIA plan based on inputs from the instructor regarding feedback on
submitted work?
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Did the student include the primary objectives of a BIA: identify critical business functions, identify
critical resources, identify MAO and impact, and identify recovery objectives?
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Did the student create a professional, well-developed report with proper grammar, spelling, and
punctuation?
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Project Part 2 Task 2: Business Continuity Plan (BCP) – DUE WEEK 6
After having reviewed and being impressed by your business impact analysis (BIA), senior management
at Health Network has decided that your team must also develop a BCP. Management has allocated all
funds for a BCP and your team has their full support, as well as permission to contact any of them directly
for participation or inclusion in your BCP plan. You have been assigned to develop this new plan.
Winter storms on the East Coast have affected the ability of Health Network employees to reach the
Arlington offices in a safe and timely manner. However, no BCP plan currently exists to address corporate
operations. The Arlington office is the primary location for business units, such as Finance, Legal, and
Customer Support. Some of the corporate systems, such as the payroll and accounting applications, are
located only in the corporate offices. Each corporate location is able to access the other two, and remote
virtual private network (VPN) exist between each Production data center and the corporate locations.
The corporate systems are not currently being backed up and should be addressed in the new plan. The
BCP should also include some details regarding how the BCP will be tested.
You may refer to the following additional resources to help you and your team develop a BCP, and you
may use a BCP template if found during your research.
References:
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Guide to Business Continuity Management: Frequently Asked Questions (Protiviti, 2013),
http://www.protiviti.com/en-US/Documents/Resource-Guides/Guide-to-BCM-Third-EditionProtiviti.pdf
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Business Continuity Plan (Ready.gov), http://www.ready.gov/business/implementation/continuity
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Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
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Did the student develop a BCP that could recover business operations while efforts are ongoing
to restart pervious operations?
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Did the student completely fill out a BCP template if found during their research?
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Did the student completely understand BCP concepts presented in class?
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Did the student develop a BCP test plan with correct processes?
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Did the student create a professional, well-developed report with proper grammar, spelling, and
punctuation?
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Project Part 2 Task 3: Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) – DUE WEEK 7
Your project on risk management, the BIA, and the BCP have been well received by senior management
at Health Network. They now want you to develop a DRP in order to overcome any mishaps that might
occur in the future. You may research and use National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
templates to develop a DRP plan for the company.
Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
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Did the student develop a DRP that could recover business operations while efforts are ongoing
to restart pervious operations?
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Did the student completely fill out the template found in their research?
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Did the student completely understand the DRP constructs presented in class?
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Did the student create a professional, well-developed report with proper grammar, spelling, and
punctuation?
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Project: Risk Management Plan
Project Part 2 Task 4: Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) Plan – DUE
WEEK 7
By now you should have developed an RA, a risk mitigation plan, and a BIA, BCP, and DRP.
In this part of the project, you will create a CIRT plan for Health Network. The company headquarters
(HQ) handles all incidents because the information security organization is located in Minneapolis, so the
plan will have its roots at HQ. Make sure to incorporate your instructor’s feedback on earlier submissions
if applicable to the CIRT plan.
Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
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Did the student consider the inputs provided in their earlier submissions?
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Did the student develop a sound CIRT plan?
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Did the student create a professional, well-developed report with proper grammar, spelling, and
punctuation?
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Risk Management Plan Final Submission – DUE WEEK 8 (LAST Thursday
OF CLASS)
After creating the CIRT plan, compile all project parts and submit to your instructor. Make sure to
incorporate your instructor’s feedback on the previous submissions in the final risk management plan.
Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
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Did the student consider the inputs provided in their earlier submissions?
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Did the student develop sound plans based on the requirements described during the project
phases?
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Did the student provide clear and easy-to-understand documentation, which may include tables
and other presentation elements?
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Did the student create a professional, well-developed report with proper grammar, spelling, and
punctuation?
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Entry Date
Risk ID
Risk Type
Risk Category
Risk / Opportunity
Effects
CBA
Cost of the Risk
Initial Rating
Risk Rating
Impact
Probability
Root Cause
Response Strategy
Actions
Responsible
Deadline
Status of action
Remarks
Type
Probability
Recovery Choices
Full Farm Failure
Code injection
(patch)
Security exploit
Low
High
Med
Ground Up. rebuild of complete infrastructure
Cold standby. A secondary data center.
Warm standby. A secondary data center
Hot standby. A secondary data center
Data Center Failure
low
Data Center failover
Location Failure
Med
Failure at A site will not impact the Prod system.
Failure at B: Servers at A will be used.
Database reattach for the production databases is required.
Ground up. Obtain new server rebuild
Server (s)
Service (s)
Med/High
Low/High
Content
High
Restart admin function
Rebuild admin function
Restore Recover admin function
Recycle Bins
Database reattach
Time to recover
Risk
Tool
availability within days or weeks 10-20 days
availability within hours or days 24 – 72 hrs
availability within minutes or hours 8-24hrs
High
Manual
Manual
Manual
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