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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Assess organisational network and security policies
   • Identify organisational security policies and procedures
   • Identify security access and user privileges according to organisational requirements
   • Determine compatibility of identified security access user privileges to organisational requirements
   • Conduct audit on system hardware and software assets according to organisational procedures and guidelines
   • Document audit findings according to organisational procedures
   • Lodge audit findings documents with required personnel
2. Protect assets from threats
   • Determine environmental threats to data
   • Determine data protection systems and controls according to organisational requirements
   • Implement data protection systems according to organisational requirements
   • Implement and test antivirus and anti-malware solutions according to vendor specifications and organisational requirements
3. Develop a backup solution
   • Determine data backup types compatible to organisational systems and requirements
   • Plan backup solution according to organisational requirements
   • Implement backup solution and restore backed up media
   • Implement real time backup and data sync solution according to organisational requirements
4. Monitor network performance
   • Determine available network performance monitoring tools compatible to existing network
   • Implement network performance monitoring tools according to task requirements
   • Document network performance expectations and actual performance according to organisational procedures
   • Lodge document with required personnel

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

maintain and manage at least one network

maintain data integrity whilst managing at least one network

document and lodge outcomes and process.

In the course of the above, the candidate must:

use industry standard tools to conduct audit on system assets

implement and test antivirus solution

employ systems to negate environmental threats

demonstrate features of data backup, restore and system roll back

perform network monitoring using a variety of current standard tools

add network controls according to network and data integrity policies.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

broad principles of current data integrity on a network, including:

auditing and control of user access

asset tracking and auditing

industry standard antivirus solutions and techniques

backup, restore and rollback procedures

system and network monitoring tools and their related functions

organisational structure and business functionality as they relate to data integrity

tools and applications required to manage network and data integrity, including disaster recovery processes.

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