Case Project 3-9: Lake Point Consulting Services Lake Point Consulting Services (LPCS) provides security consulting and assurance services to
over 500 clients across a wide range of enterprises in more than 20 states. A new initiative at
LPCS is for each of its seven regional offices to provide internships to students who are in their
final year of the security degree program at the local college.
National Meteorological Services (NMS) offers in-depth weather forecasting services to
airlines, trucking firms, event planners, and other organizations that need the latest and most
accurate weather forecasting services. NMS has discovered that their forecast information,
which was being sent out as email attachments to its customers, was being freely distributed
without NMS's permission, and in some instances, was being resold by their competitors.
NMS wants to look into encrypting these weather forecast documents, but is concerned that
its customers may find decrypting the documents cumbersome. The company also wants to
provide to their customers a level of assurance that these documents originate from NMS and
have not been tampered with. NMS has asked LPSC to make a presentation about different
solutions, and BPSC has asked you to help them prepare it.
1. Create a PowerPoint presentation about encryption and the different types of
encryption. Include the advantages and disadvantages of each. Your presentation should
contain at least 10 slides.
2. After the presentation, an NMS officer asks for your recommendation regarding meeting
their needs for encryption. Create a memo communicating the actions you believe would
be best for the company to take.