Scenario Sunshine Machine Works has an infrastructure which includes over 100 employees working within their one-story headquarters. Management needs a business continuity plan to help them continue with their business in the event of a serious incident. Role You are an outside consultant brought in to provide some valuable insight and feedback for Sunshine Machine Works. This company has seen rapid growth and management is looking to you to provide critical input for a business continuity plan. Although they have a format they can use for the policy, they are looking to you to provide some guidance on areas they will need to address when creating this policy. When we first started this company there were only a few computers that we used to share our files. Now, with the growth of our company we have a situation where we have centralized our file storage, created an extensive online collaboration process, and increased our dependency on all of that information. I am concerned that if we do not make preparations, some type of natural disaster or malicious act could jeopardize the future of our company. We need a good business continuity plan in place. We have a lot of account information stored on our local server systems. There is restricted access so that the only ones to access those files are the CEO, the General Manager, and I. No other employees have access to most of them. Although our system is running efficiently, management realizes that in certain emergency situation alternative arrangements need to be in place in case of catastrophic damage to our facility or loss of our server systems to damage or theft. I look at the way we need to do business now, which entails a lot of online collaboration with our vendors, customers, and activities related to our potential sales outreach. We have made all our file storage centralized and we need to look at how we maintain productivity in the event of some type of disaster or other disruption. Assignment As the expert providing consulting services, you will want to identify and describe the key components of a comprehensive business continuity plan for an attack or incident which could affect Sunshine Machine Work's network and data. Follow the instructions provided in the You Decide Exercise: Business Continuity Plan. Homework - You Decide Scenario Students will submit a business continuity plan paper based on information provided in this week's You Decide scenario. The paper submitted will require students to identify and describe the key components of a comprehensive business continuity plan for an attack or incident which could affect Sunshine Machine Work's network and data. Grading Rubric for this Assignment Category Acceptable Poor/Fail 40 Student Student is at ease demonstrates full with content, but knowledge (more fails to elaborate. than required). 32 - 35 36 - 40 Student is uncomfortable with content and is able to demonstrate basic concepts. 28 - 31 Student does not have grasp of information; student cannot answer questions about subject. 0 - 27 30 Presentation has no misspellings. citation mistakes, or grammatical errors. 27 - 30 Presentation has a couple misspellings, citation mistakes, and/or grammatical errors. 24 - 26 Presentation has several spelling, citation mistakes, and/or grammatical errors. 21 - 23 Work has significant spelling errors, citation errors, and/or grammatical errors. 0 - 20 Organization 30 Information in logical, interesting sequence which reader can follow. 27 - 30 Student presents information in logical sequence which reader can follow. 24 - 26 Reader has difficulty following work because student jumps around. 21 - 23 Sequence of information is difficult to follow. 0 - 20 Total 100 Understanding Spelling & Grammar Points Excellent Good