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As an IT analyst for Ballot Online, a company providing voting solutions to a global client base, you are working to convince the organization to move the current infrastructure to the cloud.

Your supervisor and the director of IT, Sophia, has asked you to summarize for the company executives the potential risks and compliance issues that BallotOnline will have to contend with in the transition to the cloud.

The final report will be seven to 10 pages that convey your understanding and management of risks associated with cloud computing, as well as ensuring compliance with legal requirements involved in moving BallotOnline systems to the cloud.

Step 1: Research Risks Associated With Cloud Adoption

The first step in assessing risk in cloud computing will be to identify and describe risk concepts and cloud computing risk factors associated with cloud adoption. As a software as a service (SaaS) company considering an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud service provider for your hosting needs, consider third party outsourcing issues and the generally accepted best practices for cloud adoption and review relevant cloud risk case studies. You should also consider best practices for cloud adoption.

As part of the risk management process, identify and describe other types of risk, such as risks associated with having a service-level agreement (SLA). An example of a potential risk could be if your company is obligated to protect personal information, and then the cloud provider that you use suffers a security breach exposing that personal information.

Here, identify and describe other types of risks or potential liability issues that apply to BallotOnline.

Step 2: Identify the Most Appropriate Guidelines for Managing Risks

In order to identify guidelines applicable to your company’s industry, you must have an understanding of the different types of risk management guidelines that exist and are frequently applicable in cloud environments.

There are several cybersecurity standards applicable to cloud computing environments such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO standards, and US federal government standards (DoD/FIPS), as well as several major sets of risk guidelines for dealing with the risks involved. Also, there are organizations such as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) that recommend best practices for managing risks.

Review the different guidelines and determine which are most appropriate for BallotOnline. For example, NIST has responsibility for developing a number of elections industry guidelines within the United States.

Identify why those guidelines are most appropriate and compile these items into a brief (one page or less) recommendation and justification of your choice. Your recommendation will also be incorporated into your final report in the final step.

Submit your recommendation to Sophia to review before you present your final work.

Step 3: Identify Potential Privacy Issues and Mitigation Measures

Now that you have identified the guidelines most applicable to your organization, it is time to discuss privacy protections that may apply.

BallotOnline is now a global organization and may need to contend with several sets of privacy laws since these laws vary from country to country.

Sophia has recommended that you focus on European Union (EU) privacy requirements for now, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), since those are considered to be the most challenging for compliance. Many companies opt to host data for their European customers entirely within facilities in the European Union, and the companies implement restrictions to prevent data for EU citizens from crossing borders into non-EU zones. This is the approach that you have been asked to take and where you should focus your efforts. Note that some cloud providers, such as Amazon, have received special approval from EU authorities to permit data transfer outside of the EU.

Research EU privacy requirements, identify the requirements that apply to your project, and why they apply and compile your recommendations for complying with these requirements. These will be incorporated into your final report.

Before moving on to the next step, discuss privacy issues in one page or less, and submit it separately before you submit your final work.

Step 4: Create Risk Management Matrix

Now that you have identified and described the types of risks that may apply to your organization, create a risk management matrix to assess/analyze that risk, and make recommendations for risk mitigation measures.

This Sample Risk Assessment for Cloud Computing will give you an example of a completed risk matrix.

Use the risk management matrix template to identify risks and write a brief summary explaining how to understand the data. Submit it to Sophia for feedback before you present your final work.

Step 5: Describe Cloud Security Issues

Now that you have completed the risk analysis, you can start to identify cloud and network security issues that may apply in BallotOnline’s operating environment, including data in transit vulnerabilities and multifactor authentication.

Consider cloud computing risks, network security design, information security, data classifications, and identity management issues. Your findings will be incorporated into your final report.

Discuss these security issues in one page or less, and submit it separately before you submit your final work.

Step 6: Examine the US Legal System and Intellectual Property Laws

Now that you are familiar with security issues, examine and review the US legal and justice systems. Since BallotOnline is a software as a service (SaaS) company based in the United States and serving a customer base in the United States, you need to understand how the legal and justice systems work in the United States. Your basic understanding of these systems is crucial for understanding the complexities of the legal system in cyberspace, where cloud-based systems reside.

As a practitioner working in the cloud computing field, you should also have an understanding of the complexities of intellectual property law and cyberspace law, including how to identify different venues and methods for resolving disputes (such as the court system, arbitration, mediation), how to define and negotiate cloud hosting agreements to avoid potential cyberspace law issues, how to discuss the regulation of cyberspace, and how to handle electronic agreements and digital signatures.

To gain a better understanding of how cyberspace laws are applied to real issues, participate in the analysis of a relevant legal case with your colleagues in a forum titled Discussion: US Legal System and Cyberspace Law.

In addition to the discussion board, your findings will also be incorporated into your Final Risk and Compliance Report for the BallotOnline executives.

Step 7: Use Frameworks to Analyze Complex Legal and Compliance Issues

In the previous step, you examined the US legal and justice systems as a building block for understanding the complexities of the legal system in cyberspace, where cloud-based systems reside.

There are several frameworks for analyzing compliance issues used to analyze these complex issues. To provide a manageable set of recommendations to the executives, review the frameworks and select the one that is most helpful to use for analyzing these complex issues.

Step 8: Analyze General, Industry, Geographic, Data, and Cloud-Specific Compliance Issues

In the previous step, you examined the complexities of law in cyberspace. In this step, you will expand your understanding of legal and compliance issues related to the cloud by investigating industry-specific compliance issues, geographic-specific compliance issues such as privacy, and cloud-specific compliance issues to determine which are applicable to BallotOnline.

You will also need to analyze data compliance issues applicable to companies operating in the European Union, including the recent GDPR regulations, and determine how BallotOnline can be compliant. The organization is concerned about EU compliance issues because the laws there are the most restrictive that BallotOnline will encounter.

Prepare a two- to three-page summary of the data compliance issues that are applicable to BallotOnline and determine how BallotOnline can be compliant. This will be part of your final risk and compliance assessment report.

Step 9: Create a Proposal for a Compliance Program

In previous steps, you have identified potential legal and compliance requirements that BallotOnline may face in migrating to a cloud computing model. Now, you need to determine how BallotOnline can comply with those requirements.

Create a high-level proposal for a compliance program for BallotOnline that enables the organization and its employees to conduct itself in a manner that is in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Management has asked you to model the proposal on existing compliance programs for other companies that have migrated to the cloud.Note: Add a high level outline and flowchart for the instructions.  

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Step 10: Write the Final Risk Assessment and Compliance Report

As you have learned, there are a number of legal and compliance requirements associated with shifting to a cloud computing model.

It’s time to put everything together in a seven- to 10-page report for BallotOnline executives: summarizing the risk assessment and mitigation as well as legal and compliance requirements associated with moving to the cloud, outlining your recommended action plans for meeting those requirements, and developing a high-level proposal for a compliance program to avoid breaches of the requirements.

Use the final risk and compliance report template to complete your report.

Use the following criteria to respond to the questions.

1.1: Organize document or presentation clearly in a manner that promotes understanding and meets the requirements of the assignment.

1.2: Develop coherent paragraphs or points so that each is internally unified and so that each functions as part of the whole document or presentation.

2.1: Identify and clearly explain the issue, question, or problem under critical consideration.

7.1: Examine legal and regulatory requirements.

7.2: Examine industry best-practices and standards.

8.1: Assess liability issues associated with cloud adoption.

8.2: Assess network security and privacy risks associated with cloud infrastructure.

8.3: Assess management and operational risks associated with cloud.

Please add references. l also need plagiarism report

• 40 to 60 pages of scholarly APA literature.
• 50 to 75 scholarly references with 85% being recent, i.e., within the last 3 years.
• A cited problem/gap.
• A cited reason for the problem gap.

Write an essay of at least 500 words discussing the reasons for the two new auditing roles in Oracle 12c. Why did Oracle consider them necessary? What problems do they solve? How do they benefit companies? 

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

Use the five paragraph format. Each paragraph must have at least five sentences. Include 3 quotes with quotation marks and cited in-line and in a list of references. Include an interesting meaninful title.

Find an IT project related Gantt chart or project network diagram from the Internet and attach either the chart or the URL/hyperlink of the chart to your discussion board post. Describe in your own words what the Gantt chart or project network diagram is explaining and the meaning or conclusion it presents.

Also, how do you think the skills you learned in this course will help you in your future career or future courses at Post?  Have you signed up for courses next MOD?  If you have not, explain why you have not.  If you have, what courses have you signed up for?

Cite your source. Additionally, please respond to two other classmates’ posts.

 Creating functions is the preferred method for developing reusable code. While many functions are user defined, most languages, including Python, have a wide variety of built-in functions that aid in development.   

• Research the various built-in functions that are available in Python. Pick one that you feel can be important in your development efforts and explain the reasons you chose this function.
• Describe how the function works, including the signature of the function, any parameters that are passed in, and values that will be returned from the function call.
• Be sure to post a substantive response to one of your classmates’ posts and cite any resources used.

 GO19_AC_CH03_GRADER_3G_HW – Career Books 1.0

Project Description:

In this project, you will use a database to track publishers and book titles that assist students in finding employment. You will create forms, add and delete records by using a form, filter records, and modify a form in Layout view and Design view. You will create reports, modify a report in Layout view and Design view, group data in a report, and keep grouped data together for a printed report.

Open the file Student_Access_3G_Career_Books.accdb downloaded with this project. View   the relationship between the 3G Publishers table and the 3G Career Books   table. One publisher can publish many career books. Close the Relationships   window.

Use   the Form tool to create a form based on the 3G Career Books table. Save the   form as 3G Career Book Form and display the form in Form view.   Using the Career Book Form, add the following new record to the underlying   Career Books table:

Field

Data

Title ID

T-25

Title

Effective Networking

Author Last Name

Nunez

Author First Name

Charlene

Publisher ID

PUB-109

Category

Job Search

Copies On Hand

6

Value of Books

180

   Find the record for the Title ID of T-19   and delete it. Find the record for the Title ID of T-25. From the Print dialog box and the   Setup option, change the column size width of a printed form to 7.5 inches. Save the form.

Use   the Filter By Form tool to create a filter for the 3G Career Book Form that   displays records with a Category of Interviewing   Strategies or Resumes.   After verifying that 10 records match the filter criteria, toggle the filter   off to display all 24 records. Save and close the form.

Use   the Form Wizard to create a form based on the 3G Publishers table. Add the   following fields (in this order) to the form: Company Name, Rep Last Name,   Rep First Name, Job Title, and Phone Number. Apply a columnar layout and name   the form 3G Publisher Form.

With   the 3G Publisher Form displayed in Layout view, apply the Stacked layout to   all of the controls. Apply the Integral theme to this form only. Select the   title—3G Publisher Form. Change the font   size to 16, apply bold, and change the font color to Dark Teal, Text 2,   Darker 50% (under Theme Colors, in the fourth column, the last color). Save   the form.

   With the 3G Publisher Form displayed in Layout view, from the Field List   pane, add the Publisher ID field to the form directly above the Company Name   controls. Close the Field List pane. In the form, move the Rep First Name   controls directly above the Rep Last Name controls. Change the width of the   Job Title text box control to 2.5   inches. Save the form.

With   the 3G Publisher Form displayed in Layout view, select all six text box   controls and change the background color to Turquoise, Accent 1, Lighter 80%   (under Theme Colors, in the fifth column, the second color). Select all six   label controls and change the font color to Dark Teal, Text 2, Darker 50%   (under Theme Colors, in the fourth column, the last color). For the same   controls, apply bold and change the width to 1.75   inches. Save the form.

With   the 3G Publisher Form displayed in Layout view, select the six label controls   and the six text box controls. Change the font size to 12, and change the height to 0.25 inch. Save the form.

With   the 3G Publisher Form displayed in Design view, change the height of the Form   Footer section to 0.5 inch. Add a label control to the Form Footer section   that displays Texas Lakes Southwest   Campus.   For the selected label control, change the font color to Dark Teal, Text 2,   Darker 50% (under Theme Colors, in the fourth column, the last color). Apply   bold to the label control and change the width to 2.2   inches. For the same label control, set the Top property to 0.1 inch and the Left property to 1.25 inches. Close the Property Sheet and   save the form.

With   the 3G Publisher Form displayed in Form view, add the following new record to   the underlying Publishers table:

Field

Data

Publisher ID

PUB-111

Company Name

Associated Publishers

Rep First Name

Marquis

Rep Last Name

Sullivan

Job Title

Sales Associate

Phone Number

(512) 555-7373

Use   the Report tool to create a report based on the 3G Resume or Interview Books   Query object. With the report displayed in Layout view, apply the Retrospect   theme to only this report. Delete the Publisher ID, Category, and Company   Name fields from the report. Change the width of the Title text box controls   to 3 inches. Sort the records in ascending   order by the Title field. Change the width of the Author Last Name and Author   First Name text box controls to 1.5   inches.

With   the report displayed in Layout view, add a calculated control to the Title   field that counts the number of records. Change the height of the calculated   control that displays 10 to 0.25   inch. For the page number control, set the Left property to 5 inches. Select the title of the report   and change the font size to 14. In the title, change the word Query to Report.   In the body of the report, for the Title label control, set the Left property   to 0.75 inch (the Title text box controls move   to the right, and all of the other fields also move to the right). Save the report as 3G Resume or   Interview Books Report, close the Property Sheet and the   report.

Use   the Report Wizard to create a report based on the 3G Career Books table. Add   the following fields (in this order) to the report: Category, Title, and   Value of Books. Group the data by the Category field and sort the records in   ascending order by the Title field. Summarize the report by summing the Value   of Books field. Be sure the layout is Stepped and the orientation is   Portrait. Name the report 3G Book Values by   Category Report, then finish the wizard.

Display   the 3G Book Values by Category Report in Layout view. Apply the Ion Boardroom   theme to this report only. Select the title of the report, change the font   size to 14 and apply bold. Delete the controls that begin with Summary for ‘Category’. At the top of   the report, apply bold to the three label controls that display the field   names. In the body of the report, change the width of the Title text box   controls to 3.5   inches. Set the Left property of the Value of Books label control to 6 inches. Save the report.

With   the 3G Book Values by Category Report displayed in Layout view, at the bottom   of the report, in the last column, select the following three controls: text   box control that displays $420, calculated control that displays $945, and   the calculated control that displays 7,730. Change the width of the selected   controls to 1.25   inches and the Left property to 6   inches. Change the width of the Grand Total label control to 1 inch. Change the text in the label   control that displays Sum to Total Value of Books by   Category.   In the body of the report, change the height of the Title text box controls   to 0.35 inch. Close the Property Sheet and   save the report.

Display   the 3G Book Values by Category Report in Design view. Select the following   two controls: the Total Value of Books by Category label control (in the   Category Footer section) and the Grand Total label control (in the Report   Footer section). Align the left edges of the two selected controls. Save the   report.

Display   the 3G Book Values by Category Report in Print Preview as two pages and   notice how the groupings break across the pages. Display the report in Layout   view and open the Group, Sort, and Total pane. Set the grouping option so   that each group of category records is kept together on one page when the   report is printed. Close the Group, Sort, and Total pane. Display the report   in Print Preview and notice that the groupings are not split between   pages. Save and close the report.

Save   and close the database, and then submit for grading.

1. What is knowledge discovery in databases (KDD)? 
2. Review section 1.2 and review the various motivating challenges.  Select one and note what it is and why it is a challenge.Challenges are as follows

i.Non-tarditional Analysis, ii.data ownership and distribution, iii.heterogeneous and complex data, iv.scalability, v.high dimesionality

3.Note how data mining integrates with the components of statistics and AL, ML, and Pattern Recognition.

4.Note the difference between predictive and descriptive tasks and the importance of each.

Hypothetical Break-In

Consider the following five questions and write a response to each one.

How do you go about finding information when you have been told that there has been a break-in?

• What servers were compromised?
• Was network equipment comprised?
• What user accounts were employed to do gain access?
• What vulnerabilities were exploited?
• What can be done to prevent a recurrence?

Assigned Readings:Chapter 15. Business and Intellectual Property Law.Initial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

1. What are the requirements to obtain a trademark?  What federal acts regulate obtaining trademarks?
2. Explain the differences in patents, copyrights, and trademarks, including the length of each and examples of each.

Text-

Title: Business 

ISBN: 9780357447642 

Authors: Marianne M. Jennings 

Publication Date: 2021-01-01 

Edition: 12th Edition