Scenario Summary Things have been going very well since you started with the Systematix. You’ve been at it for a month and just received your 30-day performance evaluation, which included promising feedback as well as some areas to be improved upon.
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Scenario Summary Things have been going very well since you started with the Systematix. You’ve been at it for a month and just received your 30-day performance evaluation, which included promising feedback as well as some areas to be improved upon. There is much more to be done, so let us look at your next task. Your manager reports that the Security Operations Center (SOC) recently experienced a catastrophic network outage because of a security breach. She thinks this was ultimately caused by a breakdown of internal controls and has asked that you investigate this issue and try to determine specifically what happened. You conduct initial research and discover that SOC is staffed 24/7/365 and in general is a high tempo, high-stress environment with a high turnover. The SOC monitors and maintains Fortune 50 networks and is critical to the success of the company. In addition, the SOC performs rule changes on customer firewalls so that customer nodes can protect data on their existing networks. Upon initial informal discussions with both security and network administrators in the SOC, you learn that stress is high, morale is low, and there is a general lack of teamwork among the staff. You discover several cliques among the staff and also learn that each shift is only concerned about itself. In addition, security is very lax and procedures aren’t typically followed. Because of this, the SOC Director recently hired a new first-level manager in hopes of turning things around.
