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Subject:  InfoTech Import in Strat Plan 

Why is it important for business strategy to drive organizational strategy and IS strategy? What might happen if the business strategy was not the driver?

 At least one scholarly source should be used in the initial discussion thread. Use proper APA citations and references in your post. 

For this paper, select an organization that has leveraged Cloud Computing technologies to improve profitability or to give them a competitive advantage.  Research the organization to understand the challenges that they faced and how they intended to use Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.  The paper should include the following sections each called out with a header.

• Company Overview:  The section should include the company name, the industry they are in and a general overview of the organization.
• Challenges: Discuss the challenges the organization had that limited their profitability and/or competitiveness and how they planned to leverage Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.
• Solution:  Describe the organization’s Cloud Computing implementation and the benefits they realized from the implementation.  What was the result of implementing Cloud Computing?  Did they meet their objectives for fall short?
• Conclusion:  Summarize the most important ideas from the paper and make recommendations or how they might have achieved even greater success.

• The paper must adhere to APA guidelines including Title, APA level 1, level 2 headings and Reference pages.
• There should be at least three scholarly sources listed on the reference page. 
• Each source should be cited in the body of the paper to give credit where due. 
• Per APA, the paper should use a 12-point Time New Roman font, should be double spaced throughout, and the first sentence of each paragraph should be indented .5 inches.
• The body of the paper should be 5 pages in length. 
• The Title and Reference pages do not count towards the page count requirements.

Computer science case study

 Course: Global Market and Blockchain Technology

Practical Connection Assignment

At UC, it is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within their own career.

Assignment: 
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. 

Check the slides “OS Security II,” pg. 4-8. You are to implement a Dictionary Attack with and without Password Salt program in either C/C++ or Python.

If you are not familiar with measuring execution time in C++, see the following website:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/measure-execution-time-function-cpp/

If you are not familiar with measuring execution time in Python, see the following website:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1557571/how-do-i-get-time-of-a-python-programs-execution

See the following steps.

1. Accept a user password of length N as keyboard input to your program. You can determine your own length N.

2. Compute the hash of the password from step 1.

Your hash function H() is simply the checksum. (See Assignment 2)

3. Now you become an attacker and try to find the password of length N.

Try every combination of length N password and for each combination, compute the hash and compare to the hash of the password from step 2.

Measure execution time.

4. Now let’s reinforce our password using the password salt. Accept an arbitrary non-negative integer number as keyboard input to your program.

5. Compute the hash of the concatenated password salt and password from step 4 and step 1. To compute the password salt portion of the checksum, you can treat the entire password salt as EITHER a single integer OR multiple one-byte integers.

6. Now you become an attacker and try to find the concatenated password salt and password.

Try every combination of an arbitrary non-negative integer number and length N password and for each combination, compute the hash and compare to the hash from step 5.

Measure execution time.

NOTE: your program should have separate functions for the checksum and the two dictionary attacks with and without the password salt by the attacker.

 What is the relationship between Naïve Bayes and Bayesian networks? What is the process of developing a Bayesian networks model?

250-300 words in length with a minimum of 2 references in APA format

Article:

Do,  H., Railwaywalla, M., & Thayer, J. (2016). Integration of ERM with  Strategy (p. 35). Retrieved from Poole College of Management, NCSU  website: https://erm.ncsu.edu/az/erm/i/chan/library/Integration_of_ERM_and_Strategy_Case_Study.pdf

After reading the above week’s article, and any other relevant research you locate, please discuss the following in your main post:.

• Which case study in the paper was most interesting to you and why?
• Do you think that ERM is necessary in the contemporary organization and why?

 A substantive post will do the following:

• Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
• Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor
• Provide extensive additional information on the topic
• Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
• Share an applicable personal experience
• Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC  Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information  about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA 7)
• Make an argument concerning the topic.

At least one scholarly source should be used in the initial  discussion thread. Be sure to use information from your readings and  other sources from the UC Library. Use proper citations and references  in your post.

Discussion 4.1

Due: Initial Post due Wednesday, Replies due Sunday

What are some things you should consider when conducting social engineering?  Why?  What things should you avoid?  Why? 

Weekly Summary 4.1

 Write and submit a brief summary of the important concepts learned during the week in your own words. The summary will include a summary of the instructor’s weekly lecture including any information included in the lecture.

This is not a review of the book, but it is a personal view of the lecture and presentations.

Book Review Chapters 4 and 5

 After reading, chapters 4 and 5, write a 3-4 page review (not including the Title page or Reference page) of the chapter. The review is to give your point of view on the topics found on pages 122 and 123 of Don’t Forget section of the book

Strictly APA formatting and proper Citing.

Research 2 log parsing tools. These are tools that will help you read logs more effectively. Post descriptions of the tools and links to the tools. What makes the tool useful?

Participate in the weekly discussion. Post your initial 250 word minimum response to the discussion question and reply with a substantial contribution to the posts of other students.

Remember to use APA citations and references if you refer to information such as statistics or information you used in your response from other sources. DO NOT directly copy from a website or other source and paste. In this course I will only accept paraphrasing not direct quotation on all work.

Discuss in 500 words or more the top 5 details that should be included in your cloud SLA.

Use at least three sources. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library not Google. Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosed 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 paragaphs.  Stand alone quotes will not count toward the 3 required quotes.

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

Do not use attachments as a submission.