For this assignment you will post your answer to the scenario below prior to 11:55 p.m. ET on Wednesday. You are required to respond to at least two of your classmates post by 11:55 on Sunday. Please do not be late with this post because your classmates will be relying on you to post on time. Your follow-up posts can add additional insight to a classmate’s opinions or can challenge their opinions. Use examples from the readings, or from your own research, to support your views, as appropriate. For your follow-up posts this week, you may wish to visit a couple of the web sites contributed by your classmates and share your opinion of these sites with the class. Be sure to read the follow-up posts to your own posts and reply to any questions or requests for clarification. You are encouraged to conduct research and use other sources to support your answers. Be sure to list your references at the end of your post. References must be in APA citation format. All posts must be a minimum of 250-300 words. All follow-up posts to your classmates must be a minimum of 150 words for each required post. Peer responses will not be accepted after the due date.

Scenario:

Your CISO was very happy with the recommendations that you made in Week 3. They have accepted your recommendations as valid, but have requested additional information on the firewall solution. The CISO is now asking for:

1. Firewall best practices that you will implement to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA, page 6, first mention in textbook).
2. The best firewall to support his requirement for detailed logging.
3. The firewall type.
4. Your plan for managing it.

Note: Logging is recording events that take place on or across a firewall, page 226-227.

This assignment is a formative assessment for Course Objective 5.