As the newly hired cybersecurity policy analyst, you are the most qualified in your company to understand the overall framework of cybersecurity initiatives, which often change and evolve over several presidential administrations.
Knowing your background, your boss asks you to prepare a comprehensive overview that compares cyber policy principles from the prior administration to the current. He will present the report to the board of directors.
“It’s important for us to take a step back periodically to see where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we are going,” he says.
The report can include recommendations for improving the current policies with a look toward maintaining civil liberties. The report, your boss says, also should feature updates and the effects of the Federal Information Security Management Acts, or FISMA, of 2002 and 2014. It should also consider the role that the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, assumes in terms of cybersecurity policy.
You realize that your report has to be crafted in plain language so that the board members who do not have the technical background in cybersecurity matters will understand.
Creating such a broad-based document will require some historical research as well as a look at the current laws.
Administration Cybersecurity Policy Review (seven page report using this template) This report should include the following components:
Title Page
Include:
for whom you are preparing the document, the title, the date prepared, and your name as the preparer of the document.
Table of Contents
with all sections
Introduction
Key Current Administration Cybersecurity Policy Tenets
Key Prior Administration Cybersecurity Policy Tenets
Comparison of Current and Prior Tenets
FISMA Conclusions
NIST Conclusions
Conclusion
Pro/Con Current vs. Prior
Pro/Con FISMA Regulation
Pro/Con NIST Guidelines
Reference Page. The Word document attached is the instruction for this order.