Portfolio Assignment

Background: Assume that there has been a data breach at your organization. The root cause was one of the following: Insufficient or weak user authentication, deliberate actions of a disgruntled employee, a server that was missing a critical security patch for $90$ days, or a misconfigured SaaS program that was unknown to the IT department.

Topic: Select one of the possible root caus listed above and write a recommendation to senior management for addressing the problem. Suggest an immediate action that would need to be taken, then attempt to persuade management to support a project to address the root cause. Address at least one regulatory reason for action, one ethical reason, and one reason based on industry standards. Knowing that this effort would be too early for accurate financial numbers for a project, include one paragraph that would address three key financial impacts a project would have on an already fully committed IT budget.