Ipremier Case Study

1) On Bob Turley’s first day, what was your opinion of the level of risk iPremiere was carrying in their operations (go with High, Moderate or Low, but define what you mean by the level you choose). What were the main elements that contributed to that risk (aim for three elements)?

IPremier is a Business to Customer Company which has been providing good services to its customers. IPremier has a big internet presence along with their stock being traded publicly. Bob Turley’s had joined IPremier as a Chief Information officer (CIO). According to my opinion, IT operations & security information was not fully briefed to Bob on his first day in office. He strongly felt IT team was not happy with services provided by Qdata and they should look for

Majority of business decisions are cost oriented. Discounting cost, IPremier can engage a third party vendor to conduct a thorough risk assessment on their IT infrastructure. The Results of the risk assessment would give IPremier a list of prioritized threats to its infrastructure with suitable suggestions to mitigate the risk. A VA/PT (vulnerability assessment/Penetration testing) can also be conducted on their Infrastructure which would give a list of vulnerabilities that exist in their application and networks. Risk and vulnerability assessment will also help IPemier be compliant to some of the industry standards like PCI/DSS and prove to be a long term cost benefit

A change management officer/ release manager is held responsible to track the release process and to get the approvals before the latest build is rolled out to production. The whole release process takes a lot of time & patience on every stakeholder involved in the software development cycle. In the case of IPremier, IT division is not staffed enough to handle a new change in there development and deployment process. Multiple test runs have to be conducted before and after the deployment which is too much for