You are going to conduct a risk assessment on Acme Enterprise using the risk assessment concepts we have learned about thus far.

You are going to conduct a risk assessment on Acme Enterprise using the risk assessment concepts we have learned about thus far.

Acme Enterprise is a private company that is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO). Prior to going public Acme must be in compliance with: GDPR, PCI DSS, and SOX. Acme is in the water purification business with new technologies that purify water in any form whether it is sewage, ocean, lake etc.

Part of its IPO process is to show due diligence and due care. Acme has identified your team to conduct a risk assessment and analysis of its information technology infrastructure to uncover any threats and exposures and provide mitigations and controls to reduce those uncovered threat/exposures, so it can have a successful IPO.

Using the Network Infrastructure design of the Acme Enterprise you are to assess risk of Acme’s:

  • Perimeter Security
  • Network Security
  • Endpoint Security
  • Application Security
  • Data Security
  • Operations
  • Policy Management

You are going to conduct a risk assessment on Acme Enterprise using the risk assessment concepts we have learned about thus far. Each of the areas of the infrastructure mentioned above is where you will concentrate your assessments. After you have completed your risk assessment, you will then provide recommendations for each area that you assessed to reduce risk, exposure, and threat. Also, as part of your final submission demonstrate through a redesign where your mitigations will take place within the architecture. You can use the image below as guide for your risk analysis of each area.

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