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 10 threats choose 5:

a. Internal theft or diversion

b. Armed attack

c. Hostage incident

d. Burglary

e. Civil disturbance

f. Auto theft

g. Sabotage

h. Employee pilferage

i. Kidnapping

j. Robbery

he course textbook outlined the top ten security threats to an organization. For this assignment, write at least 500 words discussing the following:

• Out of the ten threats list the five you think are most important
• Describe and define each of these five threat areas as to their significance
• Provide strategies you would have implemented to improve these areas to reduce risk and vulnerability

Assignment Requirements

Please provide and discuss the above

• Each paragraph must have at least four complete sentences
• You also need to respond to at least two (2) classmates’ posts (150-word each)
• There should be no personal pronouns in your initial discussion post.
• Your initial post is due by Wednesday before 1159pm
• You should have a minimum of three credible in-text citations (Not at the end of your paragraphs)
• All requirements must be met, and proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation must be correct.
• Please also ensure you use the Discussion Board Header; you can find this template in the Getting Started folder.
• No contractions should be used, or any conjunctions at the beginning of a sentence.
• Failure to follow each instruction will negatively affect your grades.

Title:Information Management

Paper type: Essay

Paper format: Harvard

Course level: Master

Subject Area : IT Management

# pages: 13   ( or 3900 words Minimum)

Spacing: Double Spacing

# sources: 15

Paper Details

• Abstract (no more than 150 words in a single paragraph)

• Table of contents (Table of tables/figures if necessary)

• A subsection for each of the five questions of the assessment – no more than 4500 words in total

• References (or Bibliography) – at Master level you must use in-text citations to support your arguments and any work cited must appear in the References list at the end of the work

– Harvard referencing

Consider the reputation service and the needs of both individual consumers and large organizations that are security conscious.

What will be the expectations and requirements of the customers?

Will small-scale consumers’ needs be different from those of enterprises?

Who owns the data that is being served from the reputation service?

What kinds of protections might a customer expect from other customers when accessing reputations?

You are supposed to do online research and find out one case study where MapReduce was used to solve a particular problem. I am expecting 4-5 page write-up. Please provide as much technical details as possible about solution through MapReduce. 

I am expecting maximum one page for business problem and 3 pages of technical solution. I want everyone to do research and provide their own write-up. I am not looking for copy-paste from some website. If I found out that it is copy-paste from some website then you will get ‘F’ grade in the course.

There are so many examples where MapReduce has solved complex business problems. Please use power point or Visio to draw technical diagrams to explain the solution. You have seen technical diagrams in our lectures throughout this class.

Read the Orlando Marathon Case Study, found in this week’s module. Then respond to the following questions by due date listed in the syllabus:

1. Consider  the responsibilities of risk management programs and risk in volunteer  management. What steps should be taken to prepare for the event in  compliance with the responsibilities of risk management programs and in  the aftermath of the Boston Marathon events. Assume that terrorism  threats on this event would be extremely heightened.
2. What are all of the risks that you need to consider for the organization and for volunteers?
3. In  what ways would you approach each of these risks? (Think about  elimination, reduction, assumption, transfer, etc). Explain your  rationale.

By the Saturday following the due date listed on  the syllabus at 11:59pm, respond to at least 1 other student. Do you  agree with the steps they selected to prepare for the event? Are there  risks they did not identify that should be included? 

 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 paragraphs. 

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Chapter 13 covers the various business and IT organizational models

Chapter 13

Read Chapter 13 and answer the following questions:

1. Describe the differences between the centralized and decentralized business model.
2. Describe the differences between the centralized and decentralized IT model.
3. Which organizational variation provides the best environment for taking advantage of the SOA framework? What makes this variation advantageous?
4. Does a decentralized IT model work within the SOA framework parameters? Why or why not?
5. Is it possible to adopt SOA principles in a decentralized business model?

  400 words

This assignment should be in APA format and have to include at least two references.

What happens when we place the authentication system in our demilitarized zone (DMZ)—that is, in the layer closest to the Internet? What do we have to do to protect the authentication system? Does this placement facilitate authentication in some way? How about if we move the

authentication system to a tier behind the DMZ, thus, a more trusted zone? What are the implications of doing so for authentication performance? For security?