Assignment 1 Analysis on the Threats Defense Argument The information you provided in your PowerPoint presentation on Threats to the Global Environment has led to productive debates at the United Nations General Assembly! Hence, they are now asking you to create an additional analysis report to respond to the issues raised in these debates. Your fourth project as a consultant for the United Nations is to develop a report that addresses the issues raised by some of the member states of the United Nations. Step I. Consider the Issues In Assignment 3a, you were asked to create a PowerPoint identifying the four most critical threats out of eight threats provided in the table below.  Energy sources  Civil war Globalization Poor health of entire populations Lack of educational opportunities Cultural taboos  Inappropriate uses of technology Climate change There are four remaining threats that you did not discuss in your PowerPoint. This assignment will focus on those four. Here are the specific tasks you will complete: Review the remaining four threats that you did not use in Assignment 3a. Pick two of the four to focus on in Assignment 3b.  Identify the reasons why you think these two threats are less critical than the four threats you chose for your PowerPoint presentation.  Step II. Prepare Your Report The UN has given you the following guidelines.  Introduction Briefly introduce the topic of the analysis (about 100-150 words).  State the topic and intent of the paper.  Identify the four threats you will discuss in the paper in the order in which they appear in the paper. Section I. Threat 1 Write an opening statement describing the perception of the threat. Write one page giving three reasons that explain why you saw this threat as less critical than the four you chose for your presentation in Assignment 3a.  Support these reasons with at least three credible sources. Section II. Threat 2 Write an opening statement describing the perception of the threat. Write one page giving three reasons to explain why you saw this threat as less critical than the four you chose for your presentation in Assignment 3a.  Support these reasons with at least three credible sources.  Conclusion Offer a summary (one page or less) of your defense of your choices that the United Nations can use to address their prioritization concerns. Formatting Requirements Your paper may consist of up to four pages (not including the cover or reference pages). Create headings for each section of your paper as follows:  Introduction Threat 1 (include the name of your chosen threat) Threat 2 (include the name of your chosen threat) Conclusion -------------------------------------------------------------- Assignment 2  Contingency Planning in Action Due Week 10 and worth 200 points Create a hypothetical organization with details including geographic location(s), number of employees in each location, primary busi.

1. Assignment 1
Analysis on the Threats Defense Argument
The information you provided in your PowerPoint presentation
on Threats to the Global Environment has led to productive
debates at the United Nations General Assembly! Hence, they
are now asking you to create an additional analysis report to
respond to the issues raised in these debates.
Your fourth project as a consultant for the United Nations is to
develop a report that addresses the issues raised by some of the
member states of the United Nations.
Step I. Consider the Issues
In Assignment 3a, you were asked to create a PowerPoint
identifying the four most critical threats out of eight threats
provided in the table below.
Energy sources
Civil war
Globalization
Poor health of entire populations
Lack of educational opportunities
Cultural taboos
Inappropriate uses of technology

2. Climate change
There are four remaining threats that you did not discuss in your
PowerPoint. This assignment will focus on those four. Here are
the specific tasks you will complete:
Review the remaining four threats that you did not use in
Assignment 3a.
Pick
two
of the four to focus on in Assignment 3b.
Identify the reasons why you think these two threats are less
critical than the four threats you chose for your PowerPoint
presentation.
Step II. Prepare Your Report
The UN has given you the following guidelines.
Introduction
Briefly introduce the topic of the analysis (about 100-150
words).
State the topic and intent of the paper.
Identify the four threats you will discuss in the paper in the
order in which they appear in the paper.

3. Section I. Threat 1
Write an opening statement describing the perception of the
threat.
Write one page giving three reasons that explain why you saw
this threat as less critical than the four you chose for your
presentation in Assignment 3a.
Support these reasons with at least three credible sources.
Section II. Threat 2
Write an opening statement describing the perception of the
threat.
Write one page giving three reasons to explain why you saw this
threat as less critical than the four you chose for your
presentation in Assignment 3a.
Support these reasons with at least three credible sources.
Conclusion
Offer a summary (one page or less) of your defense of your
choices that the United Nations can use to address their
prioritization concerns.

4. Formatting Requirements
Your paper may consist of
up to four pages (not including the cover or reference pages).
Create headings for each section of your paper as follows:
Introduction
Threat 1 (include the name of your chosen threat)
Threat 2 (include the name of your chosen threat)
Conclusion
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Assignment 2
Contingency Planning in Action
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
Create a hypothetical organization with details including
geographic location(s), number of employees in each location,
primary business functions, operational and technology details,
potential threats to the business and its technology, and
anything else that you believe is relevant to the business.

5. Assume this organization is lacking in its contingency planning
efforts and requires assistance in ensuring these efforts are
appropriately addressed to increase its overall security and
preparedness posture.
Write a ten page paper in which you:
Provide an overview of the organization and indicate why
contingency planning efforts are needed and how these efforts
could benefit the business.
Develop a full contingency plan for the organization. Include all
subordinate functions / sub plans, including BIA, IRP, DRP, and
BCP efforts.
Determine the policies and procedures that would be needed for
all contingency planning efforts. Detail the role of the policy /
procedure, and explain how each would help achieve the goals
of these efforts.
Detail the processes to utilize in order to fully implement the
contingency plan and its components, and explain the efforts to
consider in maintaining the plans.
Create a hypothetical incident scenario where the contingency
planning efforts would need to be utilized and detail: (a) How
the plan is sufficiently equipped to handle the incident. (b) a
timeline for the incident response and recovery efforts.
Identify any ethical concerns that are specific to this
organization and its incident response personnel (especially the
CP Team Leader), and explain how to plan for these concerns.
Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note:
Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality

6. resources.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
Explain risk management in the context of information security.
Develop a disaster recovery plan for an organization.
Summarize the various types of disasters, response and recovery
methods.
Compare and contrast the methods of disaster recovery and
business continuity.
Explain and develop a business continuity plan to address
unforeseen incidents.•Describe crisis management guidelines
and procedures.
Describe detection and decision-making capabilities in incident
response.
Develop techniques for different disaster scenarios.
Evaluate the ethical concerns inherent in disaster recovery
scenarios.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in
disaster recovery.
Write clearly and concisely about disaster recovery topics using
proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.