Assignment One Word Limit: 1500 words (+/- 150 words) Description: The Emirates started in 1985, and today it has become the largest airline in the Middle East. Dubai based head office manages approximately 50,000 employees and US$ 18.4 billion turnover per year. IT Security & Information Assurance department (ISIA) of this large organisation has several key responsibilities, from designing, planning and creating of secured infrastructure. The ISIA is led by a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and eight security managers responsible for key areas such as Information & Physical security, Privacy, Business continuity, managing Malware and Botnets, Identifying security holes and applying appropriate remediation measures. With growing technological advances and recent threats on Information Security, senior management is concerned about organisational preparedness to handle the threat. The CISO strongly believes assessment of security risks and proactive steps to manage these risks are the key steps for both hardware and software security. The CISO often thinks that reviewing the security breach incidents experienced by other organisation and the measures they have taken can be good source of knowledge to plan ahead. Task: As a first step, CISO asks you, one of the Security Managers to review the incidents globally for the last 2 years and discuss the top Five threats so that, Emirates is informed about the current risks to take necessary steps to handle them. Your responsibility is to identify and analyse at least five major risks and propose ways to overcome those threats. Your evaluation of risks and suggestions must be presented in a report format to CISO. Submission: Submit your assignment online on or before the due date. Formatting 1500 word report Font –Times New Roman, 12 size Line spacing-1.5 Standard Margins References Include minimum 5 academic references (web references, Wikipedia ...etc are not considered as academic references) Hint Look security incidents took place globally and then apply the most relevant one to Emirates.