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I.

SparQ Chief Executive Officer (CEO) department

The SparQ’s CEO department is responsible for promote Information Security culture
at SparQ. By delegating the role for other department heads, CEO’s SparQ want to
ensure Information Security Management System (ISMS) will be followed by all
employees. This would be meet requirements from local government and SparQ’s
customers to ensure an adequate ISMS is deployed and maintained at SparQ.

By implementing ISO 27000 framework, SparQ would also increase its market
competition comparing with other potential competitors. A well manage ISMS and
high-level Information Security awareness is a key to sustain and enhance SparQ
business capability in future.

In order to support CEO department to coordinate and implement successfully ISMS


in SparQ. Other heads of department will also provide the resource and a level of
commitments to implement ISMS within their responsible departments.

II. Business Processes and Information Assets

In daily business of a CEO, the meeting of minutes (MoM) is a type of document


need to be treated as an information asset. The MoM is a record of discussion points
during meetings between CEO and other department heads, CEO and external
partners/customers/local government authorities. The MoM will be recorded and
coordinated by CEO’s Admin staff (including personal assistant). The MoM also will
deliver to involved participators

•Deliver to
participators
Admin •Record Digital MoM •Keep MoM
MoM files Handle outside of
Staff •Note
non-
authorized
people

Another potential information asset that handled by CEO’s department is a set of legal
paper documents. These legal papers including but not limited to third parties’
contracts, company’s certificates, property’s certificates, company’s audit reports and
internal compliance case documents.

Keys are
Legal paper
CEO's managed
documents Stored In department
cabinets by Admin
Staff

III. Threat scenarios

#101 – Leaked sensitive information to unauthorized individuals/parties

Scenario: A disgruntled employee steal a MoM file and send it to unauthorized


parties/person.

Records of previous data breach: one case in last three years ago.

#102 – Spear Phishing Attack

Scenario: Hackers found list of Admin’s staff employee email in a public forum.
They start an intensive phishing attack on these emails. One of employees of Admin
staff click the phishing email and open the malicious attachment which lead to her
computer infected by a trojan

Records of previous data breach: one case in last three years ago.

#103 – Mishandling Information

Scenario: One of employees in Admin staff leave user and password in open places.
This information could be stolen and accessed by unauthorized person

Records of previous data breach: One case that happened last year.

#104 – Ransomware Attack

Scenario: The file sharing has been encrypted by a type of ransomware.


Records of previous data breach: One case that happened last year.

#105 – IT Infrastructure down

Scenario: There was a crash in file sharing server that cause the interruption in access
important MoM files in department sharing drive.

Records of previous data breach: One case that happened last year.

#106 – Lack of integrity

Scenario: A disgruntled employee delete/change information on the MoM. This


would cause the lost in information integrity.

Records of previous data breach: One case that happened last year.

#107 – IT application

Scenario: A misconfiguration in the access control list that led an unauthorized


person able to access sensitive MoM file on CEO’s department share.

Records of previous data breach: One case in the last five years.

#201 – Physical Security Threat

Scenario: A thief bypass physical security system and cracked the CEO’s department
cabinets. Several legal paper documents could be stolen from the company.

Records of previous data breach: One case in the last five years.

#202 – Lost the keys

Scenario: An employee in CEO’s department mishandling cabinet keys. This would


cause a potential threat that allows unauthorize physical access to sensitive legal
documents.

Records of previous data breach: One case in the last three years.

#203 – Health, Safety and Environment

Scenario: Paper documents has been burned by fire

Records of previous data breach: This threat did not occur yet but according to
company incident history, there was a small fire near the CEO’s department area that
was occurred five years ago
#204 – Natural Disaster

Scenario: Paper documents has been destroyed by flood

Records of previous data breach: This threat did not occur yet but the area where
SparQ is located inside a valley landscape. The last flood was recorded by local
government that happened five years ago.

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