Tra Johnson
Ruben Barragan
Bernie Rodriguez
Unit 3 Assignment 1: Security Policy Frameworks
A business is only as strong as its weakest link. This is true for any company from Apple to Microsoft to any Mom & Pop store. Unfortunately, when your weakest link is your security policy frameworks you put yourselves in a position of unnecessary risk. We are tasked in this assignment to list things that can affect your business if your company’s framework doesn’t align with the business.
The first subject that was discussed was operations. Operations focus on various manual processes while ensuring there is minimal risk of errors. For example, if your company is still using paper-based ledgers for your daily paperwork and accounting. You would want to switch your systems to some sort of business software. Overall this will save you both time and money. You also must be careful not to all cost overrun. If your business is not streamlined you can definitely run the risk of this.

Risk mitigation is the process of reducing risks as close to the point of absolute zero as possible. Using non-standardized methodologies, and non-compliance with regulatory requirements can damage your company beyond the point of no return. This is because, in the case of non-standardized methodologies, you will be using different processes in different departments and expecting those departments to be able to interact smoothly. Non-compliance with regulatory requirements can subject your business to fees which can easily cripple your business or destroy it outright.

When discussing performance, it is all about speed. Using faster equipment, faster business practices and essentially being as speedy as possible without sacrificing accuracy. When you go to slow you run the risk of missing deadlines and hurting the bottom line. Conversely going too fast can also be dangerous because you can and almost certainly will, miss things.
When performing an implementation, being inflexible will hurt you.