Information Assurance Compliance with Government Regulations

Review the “Audit Program for Application Systems for Auditing” presented in Appendix B of Auditor’s Guide to IT Auditing. Also, read the following articles:

• “A Framework for Health Care Information Assurance and Policy Compliance“ by Sherrie Drye Cannoy and A. F. Salam.
• “Information Assurance and Corporate Strategy: A Delphi Study of Choices, Challenges, and Developments for the Future” by Elspeth McFadzean, Jean-Noël Ezingeard, and David Birchall.
• “Five Most Common Cybersecurity Mistakes” from the Toledo Business Journal.

Submission Requirements

• Case Study Plan (MS Word).

Write a 6–10 page paper in which you:

• Discuss which employees and organizations have a deeper level of information assurance (IA) policy compliance.
• Examine the factors that increased the individual’s level of propensity for compliance.
• Determine the internal and external factors affecting IA policy compliance.
• Ascertain which of the organizational requirements poses difficulty in adopting technical features to enhance security policy.
• Discuss factors related to IA and policy compliance that are affected by government regulations.
• Suggest a framework that could be used to address the issues described in the “Five Most Common Cybersecurity Mistakes” article, based on the “Audit Program for Application Systems for Auditing.”
• Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Evaluate factors that complicate information assurance policy compliance, including internal, external, and government regulation factors.