Assignment goal $-$ To develop and account management policy for an organization

Assignment task

You are in charge of account management in your organization. Upload an MS Word or $.$PDF document that contains your account management policy. Please be sure to touch on the following topics:

Items to answer

Introduction $-$ Please briefly explain what is meant by Access control. Please define what is meant by Authentication, Authorization and Auditing. Please explain the roles these items play in securing a network and the devices$/$applications that live on the network.

Account naming convention $-$ What are the suggested format$($s$)$ for user accounts to be named? i$.$e$.$ johndoe, jdoe, john.doe, user$1,$ etc.... Be sure that your account naming convention provides a way to create a unique account name for folks with the same names. You must provide a definitive recommendation, not a generality.

Password length and complexity $-$ How long should passwords be$?$ Must they contain any special case, characters, etc?, Will you require your users to change their passwords? If so how often will you require them to change them, can they reuse old passwords? You must provide a definitive recommendation, not a generality.

Server administrative access $-$ What is your policy regarding people gaining full access to server resources? Will you require server administrators to $"$do$"$ anything with the default Windows and Linux server administrative accounts and passwords? Is there a policy for leaving these accounts active? What about password management?

GROUND RULES FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT

Spelling, grammar and "readability" counts

Must upload an MS Word or $.$PDF document

Document must be no more than $(4)$ pages counting the cover page $($as long as you can address all topics feel free to use fewer than $(4)$ pages$)$

Please be sure to have content which addresses each of the sections listed above

Please note that this assignment will be run through the Blackboard SafeAssign application. Assignments for which the originality report shows substantial amounts of copied content will be scored poorly or possibly not be accepted. Given this please submit Original work only