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NOTE:

This

is

just

one

of

many

answers

that

can

be

written

for

this

question

because

there

are

many other potential strategies that can be taken.

1).

Considering

the

recent

security

issues

in

PowerSafe

Inc.,

mistrust

between

the

insurance

companies

and

attempts

to

alter

the

documents

by

certain

companies,

I

proposed

to

introduce

an independent authority for data management.

To

implement

these

solutions

at

the

strategic

level,

decisions

should

be

taken

to

introduce

an

independent

authority

for

data

management.

Key

security

objectives

and

goals

to

be

established

by

the

third

party

should

be

decided.

For

example,

one

of

the

priorities,

in

this

case,

is

that

consensus

among

all

companies

must

be

achieved

for

any

actions

on

stored

data,

policies,

regulations

and

customer

information.

Also,

sufficient

resource

allocation

should

be

organised

to

effectively

achieve

the

defined

security

goals

through

independent

authority.

For

example

decisions

such

as

what

level

of

access

to

the

organization's

information

should

be

given,

and

what

internal

staff

support

needs

to

be

provided

should

be

decided

at

this

stage,

should the company hire new staff, etc.

At

the

Administrative

level,

it

is

required

to

create

a

proper

authority

and

responsibility

structure

to

realize

the

solution.

To

control

the

access

level,

security

models

such

as

BLP

or

Biba

can

be

introduced.

This

will

assure

not

only

the

personnel

within

the

independent

authority

but

also

the

insurance

companies

have

controlled

access

to

the

information.

Also,

a

proper

hierarchy

of

authority

and

responsibility

should

be

created

within

Powersafe

Inc.

to

cooperate

with

independent

authority.

If

any

conflict

is

encountered

between

different

parties

(i.e.,

Insurance

companies

and

the

independent

authority)

active

decisions

should

be

made

to

solve

those

conflicts.

At

the

operational

level,

we

have

to

continuously

monitor

the

action

not

only

of

independent

authorities

but

also

the

insurance

companies.

Costing

for

initiating

third

party

involvement

should

be

done

while

clearly

identifying

what

are

the

requirements

that

need

to

be

fulfilled

by

the

independent

authority

to

solve

the

issues

with

insurance

companies.

When

handling

multiple

insurance

companies

it

is

expected

to

have

repetitive

problems.

Therefore,

the

company

should

support

independent

authority

and

insurance

companies

making

sub

optimizations

to

the

security decisions made before.

2) Yes

Blockchain is suitable in multiple aspects.

At

PowerSafe

Inc.

multiple

insurance

companies

need

to

work

together.

At

the

same

time,

they

do

have

their

independent

agendas

for

financial

gain

over

others.

Therefore,

this

forms

an

environment

of

untrusted

parties

collaborating

while

also

contesting

each

other.

There

is

no

central

authority

that

everyone

trusts

to

manage

the

coordination.

Thus,

Blockchain

could