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Read this Time article and view the video explaining how Russian trolls spread fake news.  Discuss in 500 words whether the government should regulate Facebook more closely.  

Use at least three sources. Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosing the copied words in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragraphs. Do Not Doublespace.

Write in essay format not in bulleted, numbered or other list format. 

Create a simple PHP login page which will allow to create a new username and password and then log in as that username and password.  

Submit:  1. SQL script to create table that will store usernames and passwords 

2. PHP script with embedded SQL performing the task above

Topic of your choice within Information Assurance during this course.  Recommend 4 pages, at least three references and in APA format. Include a summary for presentation

Need help with Vulnerability testing and analysis 

1. Discussion:

Web server auditing can go a long way in enforcing tighter security and ensuring business continuity. The power of log data is tremendous. Web server logs record valuable information pertaining to usage, errors, and other important security events. Using a specialized auditing tool can be extremely helpful during the audit of web servers. In your discussion this week, please discuss the methods of identifying weak web server configurations and how to mitigate them for a secure web server. Possible concepts to include are SSL certificates, HTTPS usage, attack surface, SQL injection, vulnerability migration, and least privilege. In at least one of your peer responses, provide an overview of how to audit the web server’s security and implement best practices.

2. Research paper:

Develop a disaster recovery plan for an organization. There are many different templates available online for you to use as reference and guidance. Your plan should cover the following sections (these sections detail the elements in a DR plan in the sequence defined by industry compliance standards ISO 27031 and ISO 24762): 

1. Important: This section should summarize key action steps (such as where to assemble employees if forced to evacuate the building) and list key contacts with contact information for ease of authorizing and launching the plan.

2. Introduction

3. Roles and Responsibilities

4. Incident Response

5. Plan Activation

6. Document History

7. Procedures

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

· Be approximately six to eight pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page. (Remember, APA is double spaced)

· Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.

· Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least four scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. 

· Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

In 300 words

Do a bit of research on penetration testing techniques. Investigate and document the following

• Five network penetration testing techniques
• Advantages and disadvantages of each
• One notable social engineering test
• Possible negative implications of penetration testing.

Include References, do not copy paste strictly.

 Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.  The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 19-20  (Jamsa, 2013).

Chapter 19 topics:

• Define scalability.
• List five to ten potential relationships that align with the Pareto principle, such as how 80 percent of sales come from 20 percent of customers.
• Compare and contrast vertical and horizontal scaling.
• Explain the importance of the database read/write ratio.
• Assume a site guarantees 99.99 percent uptime. How many minutes per year can the site be down?

Chapter 20 topics:

• List and describe five ways you think the cloud will change the future of TV.
• List and describe five potential uses for intelligent fabric.
• List and describe five ways the cloud will influence the mobile application market, or vice versa.
• Discuss the importance of HTML 5.
• Discuss how the cloud will impact future operating systems.
• List and describe three potential location-aware applications.
• List and describe five ways intelligent devices may work together.

 Provide a reflection of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study. 

Requirements:
Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.
If supporting evidence from outside resources is used, they must be properly referenced and cited.
Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.
Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment. 

Application Assignment 2 – Krebs on Security

This application assignment involves investigating two recent cybersecurity topics/events covered on the website KrebsOnSecurity.com.  KrebsOnSecurity.com presents the latest news and investigative reports on cybersecurity. This site is managed by Mr. Brian Krebs, who worked as a reporter for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009 authoring over 1,000 blog posts for the Security Fix blog and well over 200 articles for The Washington Post newspaper and washingtonpost.com. 
Select two articles from the Website–one that details an information security concern and one that explains a new cybersecurity skill or knowledge.  The articles must have been published in the last six months.  For each of the two articles, you will then go find another article on the same topic from outside the KrebsOnSecurity.com site.  Referencing both articles (e.g., the one from Krebs and the one from somewhere else), your job is to provide a summary of the topic–largely in your own words–explaining how you as a cybersecurity professional would use/apply the information.  Limit your writeups to no more than one page for each of the two topics.  When complete, submit your two writeups as a single Word document via the submission functionality.
To summarize, this assignment involves identifying two articles from KrebsOnSecurity.com–one related to an information security concern and one related to a new security skill or knowledge base.  For each of the two articles, find one other article about the topic from somewhere else, providing you with two perspectives on the same topic.  Then, for each of the two topics you identified, write up a one page summary that incorporates information from both articles (the Krebs one and the non-Krebs one) you found.  Submit the separate writeups via a single, two-page document that clearly delineates between the two different writeups.  
 

Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.

Requirements:

Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment.

You should NOT, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.

Course topics – 

1. fundamentals of a firewall, various network security threats and issues

2. network security roles and responsibilities and who within an IT organization is accountable for these security implementations.

3. motivations of hackers and malicious computer network intruders.

4. why you need a firewall, best placement for a firewall, limitations of a firewall

5. VPN policy and deployment plan

6. elements of network security design, network security management

7. common firewalls and common firewall implementations.