Assignment Content

1. This week you take on the role of the Senior IT Project Manager for the organization you chose in Week 1. As a Senior IT Project Manager, your responsibilities may include proficiently working with a variety of technologies, conduct meetings with stakeholders, create and forecast budgets, and design project plans.

   The CFO of your chosen organization wants the organization to purchase and integrate six new web servers. The CIO envisions more business travelers using the Web to purchase airline tickets and reserve rental cars and hotel rooms for business trips. Expansion of your company’s web capacity is needed.

   Research information about your chosen organization to complete this week’s assignment.

   Create a 3- to 5-page (does not include title or reference pages) Request for Proposal (RFP) in Microsoft® Word for the CIO, which will minimize procurement related risks for this project. The RFP should contain the following components: 

   • Purpose of the RFP
   • Organization’s background as it applies to the use of the request for new web servers
   • Analysis of procurement risks
   • Methods for managing procurement risks
   • Basic requirements for the current and new hardware and software
   • Software and hardware environment 
   • Statement of work/Requirements and schedule information 
   • Process for evaluating the RFP 
   • Include APA-formatted citations when necessary.

   Write one page about POSIX Threads (pthreads), what they are and how they work?

Case Study: Transforming the Organization 

Use the Week 5 Case Study Template to complete this assignment. 

Congratulations! The executives are taking your information system proposal seriously. In fact, they think it has the potential to transform the way the organization works.

The CIO asked you to read Too Much of a Good Thing to think about what resources you will need to get your new information system up and running. Please also review the five case studies in The Leader’s Role in Managing Change so you can recommend a change management pattern for your company to follow. 

Write a memo to the CIO that describes how to implement your information system into the organization. Please focus on these topics:

1. How much of the implementation work can you handle? What additional resources (people, information, time, money, etc.) will expedite the process so you don’t end up like Susie Jeffer?
2. What is your change management strategy? Provide an outline. Consider:      
   • What new equipment and software are necessary?
   • What training and support will the staff need?
   • How will the staff complete their work during the transition period?
   • Do you anticipate other areas of resistance?

The CIO is very skeptical, so provide evidence that your assessment is accurate and complete. It can be difficult to admit to personal limitations!

Your memo should be 3–5 pages long.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Develop an information systems solution to address an organizational problem.

References

Brett Connelly. 2016. Too Much of a Good Thing: User Leadership at TPAC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1136256.pdf

Kallol Kumar Basu. 2015. The Leader’s Role in Managing Change: Five Cases of Technology-Enabled Business Transformation. Global Business & Organizational Excellence, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 28–42. 

You are the web master of a college website. You share a server with other school departments such as accounting and HR.

Based on this chapter, create at least five security-related rules for staff members who are adding web pages being added to your site. Include a justification and explanation for each rule. Rules should relate to college, staff and student, and system information security.

Write your answer using a WORD document. Do your own work and use your own words, NO PLAGIARISM. 

• OverviewThis week’s class covers Database SecurityPrinciples
  This week’s topics:
  • SQL Injection
  • Setting Database Permissions
  • Stored Procedures
  • Review this week’s lab discussion
• Required ReadingsRead Chapter 7 of the Sullivan text, Database Security Principles
  Primary topics:
  • The Dangers of Detailed Errors
  • Validating Input
  • Single Account Security
  • SQL Injection in Stored Procedures
  • Insecure Direct Object References
• Required VideoSQL Injection Tutorial
  Click HERE to watch embedded video below.
• Required VideosDo Stored Procedures Stop SQL Injection

  Click HERE to watch or click embedded video below.

Explain your answer.

 Complete the following assignment in one MS word document:  

Chapter 1 –discussion question #1 & exercises 9 and 15 (limit to one page of analysis for question 15) 

 Discuss in 400 words or more best practices for incident response in the cloud. Refer to at least one incidence response framework.

Use at least three sources. 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. 

Have to pass some unit tests.

During your first week as an Information Systems Security director, you met with the Chief Information Officer (CIO). During the meeting, he revealed to you his deep concerns regarding the security features that control how users and systems communicate and interact with other systems and resources. The CIO asks you to develop access control in a well-organized and appropriately documented program. The program and measures that your company’s senior managers will implement must be properly designed and put into policy.

One common approach to designing access control is to use categories of access controls to effectively document and communicate policy to the user community. These controls can logically prevent users from violating policy. They can also determine when violations have occurred and take action when violations take place. Finally, these controls can dictate how the organization will return to normal conditions after violations take place.

• In section 1, describe the seven primary categories of access controls system options managers may choose to implement. Include a description of each control and explain a situation for when the manager would choose the control for implementation. 
• The CIO is very concerned about suspicious network activity. In section 2, describe the technical or logical controls managers would implement to detect when suspicious activity occurs on a network and report this to administrators. 
• Additionally, many senior executives are concerned that the IT systems may not be able to handle incidents. In section 3, describe which access control category you would recommend managers to implement for catastrophic incidents. 
• In section 4, the access control categories discussed in the previous sections serve to classify different access control methods based on where they fit into the access control time continuum. However, another way to classify and categorize access controls is by their method of implementation. For any of the access control categories, the controls in those categories can be implemented in one of three ways: Administrative, Logical, or Physical. Explain each access control type and provide implementation recommendations for managers. 

While there is not a specific page requirement for this assignment, students are required to fully develop ideas and answer questions to the point that no further questions are left in the mind of the reader. If the instructor can clearly find the answers to their questions, the ideas within the report are fully developed. If there are unanswered or under-answered questions, further development of the report is required.

Keep the following in mind:

• More words do not necessarily indicate more meaning. 
• When an employee is tasked with a project in the workplace that requires a report, the report should fully answer all the questions needing to be answered. In this school environment, students are learning how to prepare such documents. 
• Consider your audience. Although instructors are very knowledgeable on the subject matter, they need to verify that the student has absorbed the material through a written report. Students should therefore write to an audience of a co-worker or classmate who does not know the answers to the questions posed. 
• For students who are more comfortable with more specific guidelines, ideas can generally be developed in one to three paragraphs. The goal of writing in this class is to demonstrate what you have learned. 

Assignment grading will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using APA format and the following rubric.

Chapter 7 in the textbook discusses the different approaches of communication in change management. After reading the chapter, refer to the contingency approach features in communication. Offer a summary of the feature and discuss its role in organizational change. How can this change communication approach can aid in facilitating a change effort?