Assignment 4: Create an Incident Response Policy
Learning Objectives and Outcomes§Create an incident response policy for a health care organization.
§Explore policy creation for incident response for a health care organization.
Assignment RequirementsYou are a security professional for a large, private health care organization. Users have access to file and application servers, as well as data storage facilities that contain customer health information and personally identifiable information (PII).
Sean, your manager, has been asked to provide the latest version of the organization’s incident response policy. To his knowledge, no policy exists. He has asked you to research and create an incident response policy.
For this assignment:
1.Look for ONE incident response policies for organizations of a similar type to your organization.
2.Download NIST “Computer Security Incident Handling Guide” SP 800-61 Rev 2 located at https://www.nist.gov/publications/computer-security-incident-handling-guide.
3.Based on your research, create an initial draft of a high-level incident response policy for your organization. Consider Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other health care–related compliance requirements.
Required Resources§Course textbook
§Internet access
Submission Requirements§Format: Microsoft Word (or compatible)
§Font: Arial, size 12, 1.5 spaced
§Citation: at least 4 or more sources (you can include your textbook)
§Citation Style: APA
§Length: word count (minimum 800 and maximum 1000 words)
Self-Assessment Checklist§I researched incident response policies and wrote a draft incident response policy.
§I created a professional, well-developed report with proper documentation, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
§I provided citations for the policy sources.
§I followed the submission guidelines.
Rubric:
Parameters
Points
Answered the question correctly
50 points
Depth of the analysis
25 points
Citations, word count, grammatical correctness
25 points
Total
100 points
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Learning Objectives and Outcome appeared first on Scholars Hub Blog.
