Food &Drug Administration (FDA)
IT Security
Project Plan

ITEC640-9043
October 14, 2015

Table of Contents

Introduction…………. …………………………………………………………………Page 3-4

Project Organization…………………….……………………………………………....Page 5-6

Statement of Need ………………………………………………………..…………….Page 7-8

Project Definition ………………………………………………………………………Page 8-10

Approach to Developing Project Plan………………………………………………….Page 11-12

References………………………………………………………………………………Page 13

Introduction
Green Team Consulting Company is a team of professional project managers, who are hired to assist organizations with known network integrity issues after a cyber attack or data breach. The Greet Team is an investigative firm that specializes in a high quality, detailed analysis of the breach, development of a project mitigation plan, evaluation of any legal implications that may result in the future, and implementation strategies of new systems and workflows that will ensure future network security.
Walter Harris, the Chief Operations Officer of the Food and Drug Administration or FDA, has contracted with the Green Team after a critical data breach that exposed confidential information. The data that was exposed includes but is not limited to: employee records, new pharmaceutical drug proposals, clinical trial results, and complaints filed about products the FDA regulates. The three main goals of this project will be to target the cause of the data breach, review the consequences this breach will have on vendors, employees and products that were exposed, and implement upgrades, patches, or new software and procedures within the FDA to ensure prevention of the issue in the future.
In the Discovery phase of this project, Green team members on the Data Breach Resolution team will begin the investigation as to why and how this breach may have happened. The goal in the Discovery phase