RECENT ASSIGNMENT

Innovartus Technologies Inc wishes to use Google App Engine to drive its voice commands, simple gestures with Webcam and touching screen features.

You have been assigned the task of providing Innovartus with both a Risk Management assessment and a Security assessment for this proposed software and programming platform.

1. Provide an Information Security assessment on your chosen provider using the techniques proposed by Ramgovind et al, and the ASD Cloud Computing Security Considerations as your primary references. This assessment should be no more than 2 pages.

2. Provide a Risk Management assessment for your chosen provider using the Threat and Risk Assessment Questionnaire (White, P. 2015), as a template. You are to complete only the following sections of the template:

Section 2. Privacy Focus: 2.4, 2.6, 2.9, 2.11 and 2.13.
Section 5. Application Focus: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.8, 5.12 and 5.13.
Section 6. Data Focus: 6.5, 6.7, 6.9, 6.11, 6.13 and 6.20.
Section 7. Identity Management: A: 7.3 and 7.9. B: 7.5, 7.6 and 7.8
Section 11. Cloud Services: 11.1, 11.6, 11.9, 10.10 and 11.16

Each section is to be completed with only the following detail:
a) Is the question applicable: yes, no or NA
b) What do you think are the likely consequences of the risk? (see Appendix B, Consequences for the term to use)
c) What do you think is the likelihood of the risk occurring? (see Appendix B, Likelihood for the term to use)
d) What is the risk rating for this question? (see Appendix B, Risk Rating for the risk rating)

3. Provide a covering one page executive summary to Innovartus board for these two documents (question 1 and 2) and summary the risk management and security benefits and drawbacks of the proposed software framework running on cloud.