Assessment Brief
Case Study:
Kurabais a ride-hailing company based in the UK. The company has recently exceeded $500 million in revenue (2020) and now employs over 5,000 people. Given the platform’s efficiency in delivering services on-location, such as a taxi service app, the company’s digital labour platform has played a significant role in their recent success. However, the company recently faced a series of information challenges that raised various information security risks, such as a system breach that exposed personal information to online attackers.
The root cause of this issue was a misalignment between business and IT strategy, in which outdated security features of the digital labour platform had led to the breach. Despite the IT department’s enquiries to update the platform, which first needs approval from senior management, the IT department’s efforts have come to no avail due to the lack of response. Therefore, the maintenance requirements and inflexibility of the outdated system had left the IT department in handcuffs, preventing them from providing the company with modern strategies and solutions to minimise information security risk.
However, recently, senior management have been pressurised by the IT department to tackle this problem in the event of the recent information breach. This, as well as being heavily fined by the Information Commissioner’s office for the recent security blunder, senior management have finally responded to the IT department’s enquiries and requests a report that proposes a potential information security solution. Accordingly, the company has requested your assistance as a business IT consultant in developing an alternative information security strategy to reform the company’s digital labour platform.
Your Task:
Considering the above case study, your task is to critically assess the information risks/challenges of the existing systemto determine the deeper reasons why the information breach occurred.
Based on these risks, devise a contemporary information systems/security strategy reportto the company, considering the alignment of business and IT strategy (2,500 words).
Use appropriate risk methodologies to support your analysis, while making appropriate recommendations where necessary.
Essential Content:
•Introduction
•Contents page
•Main body:
1)Critical assessment of the existing information risks/challenges of the digital platform supported by appropriate models and frameworks;
2)Devise an alternative IS strategy that considers the alignment of business and IT needs; choose appropriate alternative platforms and justify their feasibility to the company;
3)Other contemporary IS strategic options you may consider (optional)
d) Provide recommendations based on your strategic analysis.
•Conclusion
•Bibliography
•Appendices
Assignment Guidance:
1.You will be able to access tutorials and group discussions as part of the blended learning approach. Please note, you will need to consider key areas of IS/IT strategy and relevant models/theories, while applying and aligning these to a case study.
2.Ensure yourin-text citations and bibliography (alphabetical order) follow Harvard Referencing Style requirements. Secondary Research -It is expected that the Reference List willcontain between fifteen to twenty sources. As a MINIMUMthe Bibliography should include three refereed academic journals and fiveacademic books
