1.1: Explain the terms ‘geopolitics’ and ‘state sponsored/sanctioned’ as they apply to considerations for information security
1.2: Assess the threats and risks to businesses from emerging nation-state cyber ‘warfare’ capabilities
2.1: Explain the difficulty in attributing cyber-attacks to state sponsored actions
2.2: Analyse how ‘plausible deniability’ benefits some countries
3.1: Assess vulnerable sectors and types of business
3.2: Analyse how company behaviour and culture could increase risk from external attacks
3.3: Evaluate a successful investigative and risk management strategy to lessen an organisation’s risk profile
4.1: Assess how attacks on Critical National Infrastructure can impact a business’s access to its information systems
4.2: Assess measures to lessen an organisation’s risk profile
Unit: Summative Assessment
Write an investigative report into
some of the methods and motivations of cyber-criminals or cyber armies, acting
on behalf of nation states, who have attacked private companies in foreign
countries. How can large organisations better protect themselves? (2,000 words)
This organisation can be either imagined or actual.
Guidance
Whatever your current role, you
should be able to imagine applying this work into a true, or imaginary,
professional business or governmental environment. This means that you should
be able to back up your ideas and writing with evidence.