This piece of assessment asks you to prepare a 2 A4 page report on the security outlook of a particular organisation. That organisation can be:
- The government of a country;
- An international organisation;
- A non-governmental organisation, or;
- A corporation.
NOTE: If you choose any of the final three options your choice of organisation must have some involvement in “security” affairs as related to this unit.
To describe the “security outlook” of your chosen organisation, you must:
- Briefly introduce the organisation;
- Note the key security issue/s faced by that organisation, and;
- Identify the key mean/s available to that organisation in its efforts to respond to those issues.
The audience of your report is your fellow students – your report should inform them of the security outlook of your chosen organisation. The purpose of your report is to help us build a broad knowledge of real-world security policies and practices.
Your report must be submitted via the assessment dropbox below by 17:00 of Friday the 2nd of September.
Assessment criteria
Your result in this piece of assessment will depend upon whether or not you achieve the following:
- understanding of your i) chosen organisation; ii) the security issues that are relevant to it, and; iii) the means available to that organisation – as evidenced through precise and concise summary of these points;
- critical analysis as demonstrated by your ability to prioritise those issues and means that are most important to that organisation (ie. don’t just list every possible security issue and every possible means available to that organisation);
- thorough research of your organisation – as evidenced through references to relevant sources (ideally presented using the Harvard system);
- professional presentation of your report – as evidenced by the quality of grammar, spelling, layout, and syntax. In particular, this report needs to be precise and concise.