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Improving Decision Making: Evaluating Security Outsourcing Services
Software skills: Web browser and presentation software
Business skills: Evaluating business outsourcing services
This project will help develop your Internet skills in using the Web to research and evaluate security
outsourcing services.
You have been asked to help your company’s management decide whether to outsource security or keep
the security function within the firm. Search the Web to find information to help you decide whether to
outsource security and to locate security outsourcing services.
• Present a brief summary of the arguments for and against outsourcing computer security for your
company.
• Select two firms that offer computer security outsourcing services, and compare them and their services.
• Prepare an electronic presentation for management summarizing your findings. Your presentation should
make the case on whether or not your company should outsource computer security. If you believe your
company should outsource, the presentation should identify which security outsourcing service you
selected and justify your decision.

Video Cases

Video Cases and Instructional Videos illustrating some of the concepts in this chapter are available. Contact your
instructor to access these videos.

Collaboration and Teamwork Project

In MyMISLab you will find a Collaboration and Teamwork Project dealing with the concepts in this chapter.
You will be able to use Google Sites, Google Docs, and other open source collaboration tools to complete the
assignment.

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