Enterprise Security Plan
University Of Phoenix
CMGT 430
Carol Eichling
March 26, 2014
Enterprise Security Plan
Huffman trucking company is a national transportation company. The company’s 1,400 employee’s work in its logical hubs located in Los Angeles, California, St. Louis, Missouri, and Bayonne, New Jersey; its central maintenance facility is in Cleveland, Ohio; and as drivers of its 800 road tractors. (University of Phoenix, 2005) Team A has been consulted to create an enterprise security plan that will identify the information security challenges within Huffman trucking company network and establish mitigation plans to offset those challenges. The enterprise security plan will address some of the top vulnerabilities and risks that Huffman trucking company has the potential of experiencing. The plan will also include a list of physical and logical vulnerabilities within the company, and a specific list of remediation or mitigation steps for those vulnerabilities or threat pairs.
“Enterprise security planning (ESP) is the aligning of information security policies and practices and applicable security technologies with the business rules and the evolving information models and technical architectures being used by a government or business”. (Erutal, L., Braithwaite, T., Bellman, B., 2012 pg. 144) As we started our examination of Huffman trucking vulnerabilities and risk, we took a strategic look at their assets and the possible vulnerabilities that could have an effect on those assets. In any company it is imperative that a clear understanding be arrived on the company’s primary assets, the vulnerabilities against those assets and what impact it would have on the company if those vulnerabilities were executed.
Huffman has approximately 1400 employees that use email as the primary means of communications. It is imperative that Huffman have a detailed