ITS833 Cumberlands STP IG Program Implementation Phase III Paper Please see the attached paper for guided information. This is the final phase of the three
ITS833 Cumberlands STP IG Program Implementation Phase III Paper Please see the attached paper for guided information. This is the final phase of the three- phase research paper. Thank you. UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS
ITS 833 INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
SUMMER IG BI-TERM 2018
SEMESTER PROJECT PHASE III
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PHASE III
Security Transport Professionals (STP) Incorporated desires to increase its share of the
transportation market for high risk, sensitive, top secret, regulated goods by establishing itself
as being the premier freight hauler who can rise to the task of moving its customers product to its
destination in the quickest, most efficient, confidential, safe and secure manner possible, while
maintaining a comparable cost of moving and storage. This means that it wants to be identified as
THE hauler who incurs the smallest amount of damage, destruction, and delays to the customers
product while the product is in STPs care and possession, and who transports the product in a
legally defensible manner, exposing its customers the smallest legal exposure possible. STPs
objectives include having a system of management and governance of its data that is readily
accessible for decision making, secure and exposes the organization to the smallest degree of risk
possible. The strategic plan for achieving this organizational objective includes designing,
planning, implementing, testing, auditing, evaluating, and continual updating or revising an overall
organizational Information Governance program that is aligned and synchronized with the
organizations overall strategic plans, goals and business objectives. The Information Governance
program should include key concepts from records management, content management,
Information Technology and data governance, information security, data privacy, risk
management, litigation readiness, regulatory compliance, long-term digital preservation and
business intelligence. To do this, STP recognizes that in order to support the organizational
objectives, its Information Governance (IG) goal must be to design and implement a plan/program
that provides for a standardized and systematized method of handling information wherein it can
efficiently analyze and optimize how information is accessed, controlled, managed, shared, stored,
preserved and audited.
During Phase I, you as the project manager have had an opportunity to give some thought to which
members of the organization you would want to have on your IG team from those listed in the
project description who have expressed an interest in assisting in the creation of the IG program at
STP. You have also had an opportunity to give some thought to what you expect might be the
greatest security risks that STP may face through your risk analysis and risk profile. You have
had an opportunity to research the differing regulations in the different states where STP operates
primarily. In Phase II you had an opportunity to consider the types of records STP deals with
through your records inventory for a least one area of the organization. You have considered a
records retention plan and have identified the types of records that may be periodically tagged for
destruction, which should be archived, and which are subject to long term digital preservation.
You are now ready to design your first Information Governance Program.
While it should go without stating, information related to each of STPs customers and their
products is highly sensitive, and in some cases top secret. You want to make sure that the IG
Program that STP implements will allow STP to retain all of the information about its customers,
the product transported, and the particular haul that it is required to keep pursuant to federal and
state law. You want to insure STP that the proper information will be retained that it might need
for purposes of litigation and e-discovery. You will need to consider disaster recovery and business
continuity. You dont want STP to keep unnecessary information for extended periods of time,
thereby increasing the cost and time involved with processing and retention, and also increasing
STP and its customers to litigation risks. Therefore, you will want to give serious consideration
to STPs data disposition or disposal plans.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PHASE III
You are to prepare an Information Governance Policy/Program for STP. All IG policies or
programs are somewhat different and unique to the industry and to the organization. There are a
number of sample Information Governance Policy/Program templates and samples on the internet.
Attached to the end of this document is a sample Information Governance Policy template that was
copied verbatim from the website https://www.infogovbasics.com/creating-a-policy/.
Please feel free to browse the internet to get a flavor for what an actual IG Policy/Program might
look like. If you desire, use the template attached to the end of this document as an outline for how
you might choose to format your IG Policy/Program for STP and what you might want to include
in your IG policy/program. It is certainly not a requirement that you use the attached sample as a
guideline for formatting your own. You may determine that you have something better! This
sample at the end of this document is merely attached as one example of what might be contained
in your IG policy/program, and in what format. Browse as much as you want to determine how
you want to format your own IG Policy/program, and the types of things you will include. Even if
you do decide to use the attached sample, still you are required to customize this sample to meet
the distinct characteristics and needs of STP.
Please do not misconstrue the sample/example format attached hereto. You must complete the
actual content or provide instruction for each section listed, and include your own sections where
appropriate. For example, you will see on one portion of the attached example the following:
Roles and Responsibilities
The first major section of most frameworks clearly define key roles and their responsibilities,
including:
Information Governance Committee
Information Governance Team
Information Risk Management
Information Asset Management
Records Manager
Line-of-Business Managers
Employees
Roles and Responsibilities is merely a category or heading for one portion of the IG
policy/program. The sentence that reads, The first major section of most frameworks clearly
define key roles and their responsibilities including: is nothing more than an instruction from
me to you describing the section. Then the 7 lines that follow is just an example of the key
players for this particular example. It still needs to have the roles and responsibilities inserted
and described in sentence form for each of those 7 positions listed. So you will not include in
your IG policy/program my description of what each category is used for. Please remember that
I said I want you to use sentence form. Please dont just give me listings like each of the 7 listed
in the Roles and Responsibility example above. The IG policy/program that you submit should
be so much more than just bullet items with sentences of explanation. You will lose a significant
number of points if you decide to give me bulleted items only.
However, please, please, please do not plagiarize by copying another IG policy that you find on
the internet (or anywhere else). Remember I will run the IG Policy that you submit through a
plagiarism checker that will compare it with others on the web and with those of the other students
in the class. Where it finds a match it will give me the source. In addition, it will break down your
paper and will tell me what percentage of your entire paper was plagiarized from different sources.
If you use anything from an IG policy that you find on the Internet, please give credit to the source
so that the plagiarism issue will not come up. If you find a good IG policy/program on the internet,
or from any other source, please give credit to the source by listing it as a reference. If you use
the sample that is attached hereto, please reference it as well. References should be in the form of
endnotes, and not footnotes as footnotes would most likely detract from the IP Policy/Program.
The IG Policy that you develop should be specific to STP and unique to the organizations needs.
Where you decide that STP should use cloud computing, mobile devices, and to the extent that
you decide that it is appropriate for STP to engage in enterprise social media, state the decisions
you have made as those things will be reflected in your IG policy. Explain any decisions or
assumptions you have made for STP that were not outlined in the description of the company.
This phase (phase III) of your project is due no later than Monday, June 25, 2018 at 11;30 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time. This is an extension for the deadline for submitting phase III and a
departure from the deadline given in the syllabus. Make sure to submit the project in WORD
format. Use 1 inch top, bottom, left and right margins on each page. Include a cover page that
will contain the Course name and number, semester term, your full name, student id, and the title
STP INFORMATION GOVERNANCE POLICY/PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
PHASE III.
This portion of the semester project is worth 10% of the overall grade. You should submit this
assignment using iLearn. Go to the content section where you will see a folder labeled
SEMESTER PROJECT-STP. Select that folder. You will then see selections for submitting
Phases I, II and III. Please select Phase III, then and upload the WORD document that you
created. This assignment must be submitted no later than 11:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on
Monday, June 25, 2018. Assignments will not be accepted late. This means that you should not
plan to contact me at 11:35 p.m. or 11:59 p.m. and tell me that you thought Phase III was due at
midnight, or any time other than 11:35 p.m.
SAMPLE TEMPLATE FOR FORMAT AND CONTENT OF AN
INFORMATION GOVERNANCE POLICY
The remainder of this paper was reproduced for educational purposes in its
entirety from: https://www.infogovbasics.com/creating-a-policy/
A Definition of Scope
The framework should begin by establishing the full extent of the Information Governance program.
An example of this could be:
The Information Governance framework covers all staff that create, store, share and dispose of information.
It sets out the procedures for sharing information with stakeholders, partners and suppliers. It concerns the
management of all paper and electronic information and its associated systems within the organization, as
well as information held outside the organization that affects its regulatory and legal obligations.
Roles and Responsibilities
The first major section of most frameworks clearly define key roles and their responsibilities,
including:
Information Governance Committee
Information Governance Team
Information Risk Management
Information Asset Management
Records Manager
Line-of-Business Managers
Employees
Information Policies
Information Governance covers a wide range of policies. The framework should set out which
corporate policies are relevant to the Information Governance program. These may include:
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Information security policy
Records management policy
Retention and disposal schedules
Archiving policy
Data privacy policy
ICT policy
Information sharing policy
Remote working policy
Information Procedures
A major part of the Information Governance framework should set out how the organization and its
employees work with information. This can be broken into separate sections covering:
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Legal and regulatory compliance
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Creating and receiving information
Acceptable content types
Managing the volume of information
Managing personal information
Storing and archiving information
Collaboration and sharing information
Disposing of information
Working with Third Parties
As more and more information that affects a business is created and stored elsewhere it is essential
to establish how the organization operates and shares information with stakeholders, partners and
suppliers. The framework should:
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Define the policies for sharing information with third parties
Define how the organization can manage how third parties handle personal and confidential information
Define how Information Governance fits within supplier relationships and contractual obligations
Define measurement and metrics for third party meeting the organizations Information Governance
goals
Disaster Recovery, Contingency and Business
Continuity
The framework should set out the organizations approach to:
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Reporting information losses
Reporting information security breaches
Incident management and escalation
Back up and disaster recovery
Business continuity management
Auditing, Measurement and Review
Information Governance is a continuous improvement process so it must be underpinned by a
continuous monitoring procedure. The framework can set out the organizations approach to:
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Monitoring information access and use
Monitoring effectiveness of regulatory compliance
Monitoring the effectiveness of information security policy and procedure
Monitoring of ICT and storage infrastructure performance
Risk assessment and auditing
Information Governance review
Like many things in Information Governance, there is a balance to be achieved with the Information
Governance framework. The more comprehensive the document, the better. However, it shouldnt
become so large and unwieldy that it ends up gathering dust on the shelf.
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