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1.  Go online and search for information about companies that have been harmed or bankrupted by a disaster. Choose one such company and create a brief case study about it. Successful narratives will focus on the manner in which the organization was impacted, including financial losses, losses of sales, or the need for layoffs. 2-3 paragraphs.

2. Many people believe that the use of biometrics is an invasion of privacy. For example, an eye scanning device records the inner structure of a person’s eye and stores that image in a database. Critics worry that databases of human traits used to maintain corporate security may actually pose a privacy threat to individuals, if such data were used in other ways. In your view, are such concerns justified? Why or why not? 2- 3 paragraphs.

NO PLAGIARISM 

 For this assignment, download the GSA virtual appliance vulnerability assessment tool by clicking the link.   Install the GSA virtual appliance in your VirtualBox environment. Next review the video below about conducting a vulnerability scan using GSA/openvas.  Conduct a scan against the Linux Lamp Server virtual machine you created doing week 3.  Download the report in a PDF and submit.  Provide a summary about how this assignment represents securing the cloud.    

Please read the rubrics and choose one of the topics u like and write on it

 In at least 250 words, name and describe the major functions of Financial Management based on the material presented in this course. Explain how you have seen these functions addressed in the workplace 

 How are procedure,  policies and standard part of the business plan when implementations process. 

Practical Connection Assignment on Cryptography

Your final research paper assignment is to write a research paper that explains how Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) empowers organizations to both avoid loss and capitalize on opportunity. You must provide specific examples. 

To complete this assignment, upload a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) that contains your complete paper. Remember that your paper, including your list of sources, must be in APA format, and you MUST cite your reference in the body of the paper using APA in-text citation format. A source is any paper or article that you will reference in your paper. If you need more information on APA format (for references list AND in-text citations), visit this reference: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

This assignment must be YOUR OWN WORK!  This is an individual assignment. Plagiarism detected in your work will result in a grade of zero for the entire paper. 

Here are a few details about the overall research paper Please look at the attached rubric for details on how the paper will be graded.

You must reference two (2) peer-reviewed articles or papers that support your thesis statement. One of these papers may be from your annotated bibliography assignment. The final paper must be at least 500 words in length. (DO NOT exceed 500 words by a material amount. Excessive words or too many references will NOT impress me.) 

So in summary, here are the research paper requirements:

2 peer reviewed resources (articles or papers) (1 may be from your annotated bibliography assignment)

Paper MUST address: How Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) empowers organizations to both avoid loss and capitalize on opportunity. Yu must provide specific examples

Cited sources must directly support your paper (i.e. not incidental references)

At least 500 words in length (but NOT longer than 1000 words)

If you are not sure how to identify peer reviewed papers or articles, please visit the following resources:

http://diy.library.oregonstate.edu/using-google-scholar-find-peer-reviewed-articles
http://libguides.gwu.edu/education/peer-reviewed-articles

research_paper_rubric.pdf 

Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (2 pages double spaced excluding Title and Reference pages) that summarizes what you feel are the most important or interesting concepts you have learned so far in this Cloud Computing course.  Would be good to include an insight as to whether the learning was new to you or reinforced knowledge that you already had.

Requirements:  Provide a 500-word (2 or more pages double spaced not counting the title and reference pages) paper.  The paper should include a title page, body pages, and reference page.  An abstract and introduction is not required for this assignment.  Correct use of APA guidelines for sources and citations is required. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

How your team plans to perform the risk assessment

Assignment:

Successful information assurance programs apply industry standards and best practices to identify security risk and then form dynamic, crossfunctional teams, when required, to develop a plan to address these gaps in a way that is sensitive to the needs of key stakeholders.

To prepare for the Project in this Week, assume that the fictitious organization is large and growing rapidly, with both internal and external IT risks involving employees, customers, business partners, suppliers, and contractors. Clearly state any other assumptions you make.

You have been asked to assess risks associated with access and authorization in your organization. Develop a brief scenario that depicts a threat related to access and authorization. Below are two example use cases for a single scenario to guide you. You will need to develop your own scenario as well as your own use cases.

Use Case 1: Employee Provisioning-There needs to be an enterprise process for employee account provisioning. This should include setting up employees with the correct access rights, based on their role. When employees change roles, their access should be appropriately changed. Today, employees are given access to resources using Active Directory groups. When they go to a new job, the old access rights often are not removed like they should be, and this is a security concern.

Use Case 2: Separation of Duties-Administrators need a high level of access for their jobs. Today, their credentials allow them to administer servers and create accounts locally on the servers and in Active Directory. They can also edit log files and delete accounts and groups in Active Directory. This is a security concern, and roles should be set up so server administrators can do their job but not the job of an Active Directory administrator. The role that is allowed to create accounts should not be able to create new roles, and managers should approve new accounts. Keeping an administrator’s access in line with his or her role is a best practice, and it may be required by regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

Please develop at least two others and explain them.

Write a 5- to 7-page paper about the risk assessment process that you plan to perform. Cover the following points:

• Your introduction should include the following background information:
• The country where the headquarters is located
• The nature of the organization’s operations
• The general organizational structure
• The country/ies in which the organization operates
• In describing the scenario and the two use cases you created, you should include the following regarding risk assessment planning:
• How your team plans to perform the risk assessment and identify the gap
• What other teams would be involved in a successful risk assessment
• How poor access and authorization management affects security risk and business processes
• Who the stakeholders are and the most important activities they may perform that involve accessing data and resources

Communication and Team Decision Making

Part 1: Sharpening the Team Mind: Communication and Collective Intelligence

A.    What are some of the possible biases and points of error that may arise in team communication systems? In addition to those cited in the opening of Chapter 6, what are some other examples of how team communication problems can lead to disaster?

B.      Revisit communication failure examples in Exhibit 6-1. Identify the possible causes of communication or decision-making failure in each example, and, drawing on the information presented in the chapter, discuss  measures that might have prevented problems from arising within each team’s communication system.

Part 2: Team Decision-Making: Pitfalls and Solutions

A.    What are the key symptoms of groupthink? What problems and shortcomings can arise in the decision-making process as a result of groupthink? 

B.    Do you think that individuals or groups are better decision-makers? Justify your choice. In what situations would individuals be more effective decision-makers than groups, and in what situations would groups be better than individuals?