Applying Risk Management CMGT/430 Applying Risk Management Risk management is an important element in managing information systems. Applying risk management principals to business procedures is essential because it helps organizations design and maintain a safe systems environment to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company data. Kudler Fine Foods has expressed an interest in developing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The primary objective is to improve business administration by integrating stores and business systems. Kudler Fine Foods has three stores in California and integrating business …show more content…
Because technology is consistently growing and changing, preventative measures must include flexibility to allow for change and growth. Without these considerations, a business could jeopardize themselves by restricting the ability to expand or even update the systems with necessary security patches. Preventative measures should include future growth. As technology grows, risks increase. Protection mechanisms will change as new threats are introduced to business as well as new legislations. Many security standards are based on data protection regulations and as laws change or new laws are introduced, information technology is the most costly element in ensuring compliance. There could be costly ramifications with poor planning. Risk avoidance can be costly and inconvenient but it would be more costly and inconvenient when a security issue occurs. A risk assessment would be the first step to take when determining whether to chance a certain risk or not. Determining what the assets are and understanding the impact on the business if a security incident occurs is important. It is also important for businesses to understand regulations and what is necessary to comply with certain laws and requirements. Kudler Fine Foods must conduct
The safety aspect for risk management will evaluate the potential for human loss of life and or injury. The potential for major incident or accident, such as fire, explosion, or spill, including environmental damage. The necessity for security within the company is a highly need aspect of safety that can lead to risk. The revenues aspect for risk management will evaluate the loss of customer base, recovering of capital loss and recognizing uncoverable capital loss, and loss of opportunity in marketing of the product. The necessity for revenue risk management is key. The costs aspect for risk management will evaluate the costs that were incurred due to preventable problems. Also, costs due to increased warehouse space, vendor changes, and discount changes. A significant risk in cost for this company is the cost of legal defense. The legal aspect for risk management will evaluate regulatory compliance failures and actions that could result
The goal of Kudler Fine Foods is expansion and growth while increasing profit and the current book of business. By doing the extra research and implementing a risk management program before opening a new location will increase the success of all three current locations and ensure the success of any future locations. It will also help Kudler organize and develop other facets of the business like the website. A little extra work goes along way and with the risk management plan in place and a new location market analysis model being used Kudler Fine Foods should be able to grow and meet all the organizations goals.
Whitman, M. E., & Mattord, H. J. (2010). Management of information security (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Course Technology/Cengage Learning.
Align strategy and corporate culture: The WP management team will create better risk awareness by using ERM. Also, a positive and open culture with respect to risk and risk management will be created as well. This will make every people at every level in WP to participate into the risk management activity which will be a huge benefit to WP and its employees.
“Security programs are aimed at creating an appreciation and understanding of the Security Department’s objectives as they relate to the specific industry they serve” (Sennewald, 2013). Businesses come in all different sizes, some big some small. Businesses need a plan to ensure assets, personnel, and facilities are protected and this plan must be actively in place. Security programs provide businesses with the framework needed to keep a business or company at the security level needed to operate. This can be done in numerous ways. Assessing the risks involved, lessening the gravity of those risks, and keeping the security program and the security practices updated are just to name a few. In this core assessment paper, I will identify an actual organizational security program, conduct
The reason the investigation was conducted was to gauge what was both good and bad about the new café opening, what needs to be changed in order to increase efficiency at work and any legislative laws involved.
Scenario: You are leading during the second day of the Self Reliant Camp in the Coffin Bay National Park. While exploring in the Pt. Whidbey Wilderness Area during lunchtime, one of the group was bitten by a snake just above the right ankle. They are complaining of pain and nausea, there are two puncture marks on the right foot.
Risks are probabilities that could render a business to have lower than anticipated profits. This could be due to various and numerous factors. The identification, acknowledgement and acceptance of these risks are fundamental to every business, Coffeeville in particular. This report will outline CoffeeVille’s exisiting Risk Management Policy. It will also determine its effectiveness with regards to risk identification, management and control.
Whitman, M. E., & Mattord, H. J. (2014). Management of information security (4th ed.). Boston, MA:
The metrics that best work to measure Xemba Translations performance on this project is project diagnostic metrics. While not all risks of a project can be mitigated, using this objective data based on these metrics will make a huge difference to mitigate risk. Using diagnostic project metrics is like using a thermometer to assess the projects current status. This can help eliminate or mitigate the issue before it becomes unmanageable at the close of the project. This can help avoid the, should have, could have, would have moments that may happen once the project closes and gets reviewed from a retrospective project metric. With the diagnostic project metric when an issue does arise a contingency plan can be created if there is a trend
Internet surfing might be at risk in this product as web commenced is in used.
Technology has grown tremendously over the past few decades. Everyday businesses, governments, and everyday people rely on technology for things from banking to communicating with loved ones and business associates. Disrupting this technology can cause major losses monetarily and in the sense of information. According to Information Security Curriculum Creation: A Case Study, “A survey of undergraduate degree programs in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Science, and others show a lack of emphasis on security issues in their curriculum.” There is a strong need to secure and protect information for many, many reasons and as such it is important that an undergraduate curriculum provides a comprehensive approach to teaching information security concepts to its students.
Good security management requires risk management to mitigate or reduce risk to an acceptable level within an organization. Security management’s objective is to protect the company and its assets. A proper risk analysis will identify the company’s major assets, threats that put those assets at risk, and estimate the possible damage and loss a company may endure if any of the threats were to become real. With a good risk analysis, management can determine the type of budget they want to set to mitigate threats. Risk analysis justifies the cost of the countermeasures against the threats and determines the benefit or worth of security
The operations on a FPSO encounters many hazards or risk to personnel and the environment. Production facilities on the FPSO increases the risk associated with many marine incident.
Ensuring robustness of financial models and the effectiveness of all systems used to calculate market risk. Liquidity risk is the potential inability to meet the bank’s liabilities as they become due and are managed through caps on the net asset calculations in the various time buckets. Interest rate risk is the risk where changes in market interest rates might adversely affect a bank’s financial condition. A long term impact of changing interest rate is on banks net worth since the economic value of bank’s assets, liabilities and off balance sheet positions get affected due to variation in market interest rates.