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Discuss the phrase “let the buyer beware” and its relationship to an ethical marketing perspective.( 350 words and in APA format)

b) 1 reply of 250 words 

All posts must be a minimum of 250-300 words. APA reference. 100% original work. no plagiarism.

1. Give an example of if-then, and loop using variables. Explain the danger of endless loop, and how to avoid them. Can an endless loop create a DoS (Denial of Service)?

 Part 1: Create a list of concerns a security professional needs to ask/address in each of the eight steps of the System Life Cycle. see attached doc

 Part 2:  Research tools and resources available for supporting these processes. 

Question:

As a Security Administrator for a company, your Boss asks you to create a draft Enterprise Security Plan Proposal that the organization could adopt to safeguard the company’s assets from disasters. 

1)Focus on an organization that adequately practices Emergency Operation Plan

Ø Function of EOP (add references too at the end)

2) 10 slides required 

The company in the above question refers to any pharmaceutical company.

Wk 6 Writing Assignment(250 Words)

Select one network scanning software tool (there is a list in your required reading slides) and explain in detail how it works and how detects network vulnerabilities. Provide the site where you obtained your information and include that in your assignment write-up.

Wk 8 Research Assignment (250 Words)

Locate an article on a system breach (Target stores, Sony Pictures, US Government, and many more).In 2-3 paragraphs, briefly explain the situation and what kind of information was compromised. How large was the breach and how long did it take to find the problem. Include a link to any of your Internet resources.

Wk 9 Written Assignment(250 words)

Using the following link as your reference, select TWO and explain the differences

(viruses, worms, trojans, and bots).

What Is the Difference: Viruses, Worms, Trojans, and Bots?

If you have you been involved with a company doing a redesign of business processes, discuss what went right during the redesign and what went wrong from your perspective. Additionally, provide a discussion on what could have been done better to minimize the risk of failure. If you have not yet been involved with a business process redesign, research a company that has recently completed one and discuss what went wrong, what went right, and how the company could have done a better job minimizing the risk of failure.

• Be approximately 4-6 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

Unions play a role in both private and public organizations in the United States.  During the country’s height in manufacturing, unions were predominant in many organizations such as steel mills, auto manufacturers, etc. The 1960s began to show a rise in union activity and membership in public organizations. It was noted that there were dissimilarities in collective bargaining between public-sector and private sector organizations.

This week’s journal article was focused on the Complexity of Information Systems Research in the Digital World.  Complexity is increasing as new technologies are emerging every day.  This complexity impacts human experiences.  Organizations are turning to digitally enabled solutions to assist with the emergence of digitalization. 

Please review the article and define the various technologies that are emerging as noted in the article.  Note how these emerging technologies are impacting organizations and what organizations can to do to reduce the burden of digitalization.

 The paper should meet the following requirements:

• 3-5 pages in length (not including title page or references)
• APA guidelines must be followed.  The paper must include a cover page, an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• A minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles.

Please read the each discussion post and provide one response for each discussion in 75 to 100 words

Discussion Post 1:

BPaaS comprises of an integration of all processes as conducted by businesses hence enabling commercial enterprises achieve economy and efficiency in conducting business operations. With the shift to cloud computing, organizations are adopting automation of their operations to reduce on the overall cost of hardware, software amongst other resources. The implication of BPaaS on organizational operation include reduced cost of business transaction, minimal risks as well as enabling organizations achieve scalability in utilization of cloud computing infrastructure (Schwarzbach, 2016). For this reason, organizations could continue adopting BPaaS to increase their overall productivity in their operations.

BPaaS could be centrally managed by organizations unlike with other standalone applications. As an integration of all critical business processes such as payroll processing, e-commerce amongst other process, it would be possible for organizations to manage all processes at a single entry point. As a composition of multiple application, it would be relatively easier for enterprises to monitor the performance of BPaaS unlike when individual applications are used in managing business processes. As such, the risk reduction aspect is incorporated to BPaaS by reducing the multiple vulnerability points to organizational operations. BPaaS enables enterprises to have access to a skilled workforce and expertise who have knowledge in application development.  It is hence possible for organizations to seek immediate support from expertise who have knowledge on BPaaS operations. In comparison, to other traditional applications it hence becomes possible for enterprises to reduce the risks of operating BPaaS in the event of failure. It is possible to incorporate new design processes and implement further security measures to the operation of BPaaS by the help of these experts and professionals in the cloud computing platform (Duipmans& Pires, 2012)

BPaaS offers a platform for facilitating social collaborations, web analytics, business process management, security governance, compliances and risk management (Babu, 2013). The effective running of business operations requires business to adopt a comprehensive and a streamlined approach that facilitate efficient service delivery. It hence becomes possible that with the integration of BPaaS, organizations would have it easy having efficient business processing. Risk of business failure due to unstructured business process is hence not possible with the incorporation of BPaaS for business operations.  There is multifunctional capabilities usually associated with the BPaaS. The multifunctional capability hence offers opportunities for organization to adopt flexibility in their operations an attribute that is not present in many applications.  Also, before the full integration of BPaaS by most enterprises, there is usually a trial period upon which organizations should test their business processes in line with the BPaaS. The trial period as offered by most BPaaS service provider is set to make organizations familiarize themselves with the functioning of BPaaS (Babu 2013). As such it hence becomes relatively easy for organizations to use BPaaS with full knowledge on its capability hence minimizing risks of failure due to lack of knowledge and interoperability of BPaaS.

Discussion Post 2:

Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is a type of outsourcing model that outsources cloud-based services to businesses and commercial organizations. Companies or business organizations can increase the agility of their business processes by using BPaaS services. BPaaS provides these companies with some valuable emerging technologies to implement and deploy their business processes. It will definitely reduce the cost related to labor by increasing automation. BPaaS outsources cloud services that can be accessed from the Internet because it is an Internet-based technology. One of the accepted definitions of cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient and on-demand network access to a shared group of configurable computing resources that can be Quickly provision and launch with minimal effort from management or service provider interaction. The core elements of BPaaS are security and privacy and can be achieved by designing some robust business processes in the Cloud. Businesses, organizations or any customer can meet their rapidly growing and changing business needs with the help of BPaaS. BPaaS is defined as a collection of activities that takes one or more types of inputs and creates an output that is of value to the customer. “Automation” will improve operational efficiency and reduce errors, but management middleware of business processes has no tools to quantitatively track these business metrics. (Woitsch & Utz (2015, October))

There are many benefits to the increasing popularity of BPaaS. It is a type of cloud services with almost all cloud services that give business organizations the peace of mind of reducing risks and improving the speed of commercialization. Cloud services store information on servers and hardware that an organization does not control. These external servers have strict security measures that prevent any form of a data breach. They typically require the most powerful firewalls, access credentials, and security protocols to ensure business managers are comfortable storing critical information on their servers. The data is stored in a central repository managed 24/7 by internet security experts. Vendors also perform a threat assessment analysis for each cloud application launched by the company. They constantly work to ensure that the security measures implemented are stronger and more effective. According to KPMG Managing Director Randall Wiele, aside from this, there are many other benefits to focus on avoiding the capital, not only on underlying capabilities but also on constantly updating services. (Barton & Seel (2014).

Now, the business environment or the one-day process changes each new business investment carries a risk, however, BpaaS helps to reduce this risk as a team of professionals with extensive experience in new technologies and processes will be implemented to carry out these activities. Therefore, such an experience could reduce the risks that can come with new systems or growths. As of today, more and more organizations are realizing the benefits of BPaaS or other cloud services to reduce their exposure to risk and are committing to this innovative business approach.

Business Process as a service is intended to automate any business process of a company through cloud services. These cloud services make use of the infrastructure, an application that contains the logic and other details related to the cloud, and these services work collectively. “These cloud services that include software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are therefore dependent on related services. Another description of BPaaS is that it is a way to automate BPM with the help of very particular software for the business. (Accorsi (2011, July).)

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