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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

Health Network has three main products: HNetExchange, HNetPay, and HNet Connect.

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.

HNet Connect 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.

Information Technology Infrastructure Overview

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

Upon review of the current risk management plan, the following threats were identified:

Loss of company data due to hardware being removed from production systems

Loss of company information on lost or stolen company-owned assets, such as mobile devices and laptops

Loss of customers due to production outages caused by various events, such as natural disasters, change management, unstable software, and so on

Internet threats due to company products being accessible on the Internet

Insider threats

Changes in regulatory landscape that may impact operations

Management Request

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.

Project Part 2 Task 2: Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

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 a remote virtual private network (VPN) exists 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:

Guide to Business Continuity Management: Frequently Asked Questions (Protiviti, 2013),

http://www.protiviti.com/en-US/Documents/Resource-Guides/Guide-to-BCM-Third-Edition-Protiviti.pdf

Business Continuity Plan (Ready.gov), http://www.ready.gov/business/implementation/continuity

Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics (Ask these questions to yourself)

Did I develop a BCP that could recover business operations while efforts are ongoing to restart pervious operations?

Did I completely fill out a BCP template if found during their research?

Did I completely understand BCP concepts presented in class?

Did I develop a BCP test plan with correct processes?

Did I create a professional, well-developed report with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?

Project Part 2 Task 3: Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

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 (Ask these questions to yourself)

Did I develop a DRP that could recover business operations while efforts are ongoing to restart pervious operations?

Did I completely fill out the template found in their research?

Did I completely understand the DRP constructs presented in class?

Did I create a professional, well-developed report with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?.

Part B.

1. During a period of rising interest rates, a bank's net interest margin will likely if its liabilities are its assets. a. increase; more rate sensitive than b. decrease; more rate sensitive than C. increase; equally rate sensitive as d. decrease; equally rate sensitive as e. None of the above. 2. If a bank expects interest rates to consistently over time, it will consider allocating most funds to rate- assets. a. decrease; sensitive b. decrease; insensitive c. increase; insensitive d. None of the above. 3. Petri Bank had interest revenues of $70 million last year and $30 million in interest expenses. About $300 million of Petri's $800 million in assets are rate sensitive, while $600 million of its liabilities are rate sensitive. Petri Bank's net interest margin is_ percent a. 4.0 b. 3.6 C. 6.7 d. 5.0 e. None of the above. 4. The measure of interest rate risk that uses the difference between rate-sensitive assets and rate-sensitive liabilities is called a. gap measurement. b. duration measurement. c. duration ratio. d. gap ratio. e. None of the above. 5. A bank has a return on assets of 2 percent, $40 million in assets, and $4 million in equity. What is the return on equity? a. 10 percent b. 0.5 percent. C. 2 percent d. 20 percent e. None of the above.Paragraph Styles Question one: (25 marks) (Word count 200 words) Imagine you are a manager in an organization and one of your employee is in a meeting with you to discuss a situation that he faces at work: "Sir, can I have 10 minutes of your time? ..... My name is Racha and I'm facing a problem with one of my colleague Ahmed , we are supposed to be working together on a project to market and sell one of our brands, one of our potential customer was asking for detailed information and presentation of our brand product, Ahmed and myself discussed what to do on the phone the beginning of the week to prepare the presentation and to divide the work between us, I believe that we agreed on who is going to do what in the presentation and on parts of the required written document to be sent to the customer. The set date to meet with the customer is at the end of the week-after two days- I called Ahmed yesterday to make sure that his part is done to add to my part to complete the document and the presentation, but when I called him to inquire about work, he answered me in a way I didn't like, and said that some of that we agreed on-in our phone conversation- was not his responsibility and it was my responsibility - although I recall from our conversation- that it is his responsibility not mine. Also he talked to me in a way - I don't sir how to describe it- like he is ordering me to do things, this is how I felt it. ED STATES)