Project

Scenario – (Company you are consulting for background)

You are an information technology (IT) intern working for Health Network, Inc. (Health Network), a fictitious health services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Health Network has over 600 employees throughout the organization and generates $500 million USD in annual revenue. The company has two additional locations in Portland, Oregon and Arlington, Virginia, which support a mix of corporate operations. Each corporate facility is located near a co-location data center, where production systems are located and managed by third-party data center hosting vendors.

Company Products (products you need to assess for risk)

Health Network has three main products: HNetExchange, HNetPay, and HNetConnect.

HNetExchange is the primary source of revenue for the company. The service handles secure electronic medical messages that originate from its customers, such as large hospitals, which are then routed to receiving customers such as clinics.

HNetPay is a Web portal used by many of the company’s HNetExchange customers to support the management of secure payments and billing. The HNetPay Web portal, hosted at Health Network production sites, accepts various forms of payments and interacts with credit-card processing organizations much like a Web commerce shopping cart.

HNetConnect is an online directory that lists doctors, clinics, and other medical facilities to allow Health Network customers to find the right type of care at the right locations. It contains doctors’ personal information, work addresses, medical certifications, and types of services that the doctors and clinics offer. Doctors are given credentials and are able to update the information in their profile. Health Network customers, which are the hospitals and clinics, connect to all three of the company’s products using HTTPS connections. Doctors and potential patients are able to make payments and update their profiles using Internet-accessible HTTPS Web sites.

Information Technology Infrastructure Overview (area needing assessment for risks)

Health Network operates in three production data centers that provide high availability across the company’s products. The data centers host about 1,000 production servers, and Health Network maintains 650 corporate laptops and company-issued mobile devices for its employees.


Complete the following: 


Risk Management Plan: Use document titled week 2 Project MRP to fill out 

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  1. Develop and provide an introduction to the plan by explaining its purpose and importance.
  2. Create an outline for the completed risk management plan.
  3. Define the scope and boundaries of the plan.
  4. Research and summarize compliance laws and regulations that pertain to the organization.
  5. Identify the key roles and responsibilities of individuals and departments within the organization as they pertain to risk management.
  6. Develop a proposed schedule for the risk management planning process.
  7. Create a professional report detailing the information above as an initial draft of the risk management plan.

Complete Risk Assesmment Plan: Use the Document titled Week 3 Project Risk Assesment Plan to fill out 


  1. Develop an introduction to the plan explaining its purpose and importance.
  2. Create an outline for the RA plan.
  3. Define the scope and boundaries for the RA plan.
  4. Research and summarize RA approaches.
  5. Identify the key roles and responsibilities of individuals and departments within the organization as they pertain to risk assessment.
  6. Develop a proposed schedule for the RA process.
  7. Create a professional report detailing the information above as an initial draft of the RA plan.
Lastly Complete Risk Mitigation Plan: 

Senior management at Health Network allocated funds to support a risk mitigation plan, and have requested that the risk manager and team create a plan in response to the deliverables produced within the earlier phases of the project. The risk mitigation plan should address the identified threats described in the scenario for this project, as well as any new threats that may have been discovered during the risk assessment. You have been assigned to develop this new plan.

Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics

  • Did the student develop a high-quality risk mitigation plan based on material provided in the course?
  • Did the student use information obtained from the earlier parts of the project to build out a risk mitigation plan?
  • Did the student create a professional, well-developed draft with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?