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Information Assurance (IA) is the practice of safeguarding information and managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data, the systems and processes used for those purposes. In financial industry, how does information assurance applied, in assuring that debit and credit card information and other financial information is protected.

Discuss the weaknesses in these systems and how to improve them.

I recommend your initial posting to be between 200-to-300 words. The replies to fellow students and to the professor should range between 100-to-150 words. All initial posts must contain a properly formatted in-text citation and scholarly reference.

Your task is to conduct a global industry comparative analysis that will help develop the strategy

for expanding your organization’s products into a new country. Note that the term products will

refer to products, services, or a combination of the two.

In this fictional market expansion, your analysis will examine a real-life organization. To

accomplish this task, you need to identify and assess the risks that your organization may

encounter, such as market barriers and competition, as well as opportunities for success in the

selected country. As the general manager for strategy, you have been tasked with the following:

 Analyze your organization’s resources and capabilities (organization profile).

 Evaluate the external environment, specifically the industry in which your organization

operates (industry analysis).

 Select a new country as a market for expanding your organization’s products (country

risk assessment). You will select one country from the provided list and assess the risks

associated with doing business in that country, including risks presented by its economic,

political, and cultural environments.

Based on your research, in Week 5, you will make a recommendation to your senior vice

president and CEO on expanding into this new market. Be sure to budget enough time for each

of the following 12 steps:

1. Choose an organization

2. Examine your organization’s background

3. Analyze the strategy and competitive position of the organization

4. Develop your organization’s competitive strategy statement

5. Summarize financial performance of your organization

6. Analyze trends in your industry

7. Apply Porter’s Five Forces Model

8. Select a new country as a candidate for market expansion

9. Assess international expansion

10. Conduct a PESTEL analysis

11. Assess global value chain

12. Examine cultural issues

 Networks have changed drastically over the last 30 years.  With the first introduction of the 56k modem, which was about 3 typewriter pages per second, to speeds well over 1Gbps these days, the ability to use networks globally, has changed the way we do business.  Using research, determine where networks will go in the next 5-10 years and how that might impact the global economy. 

 Discuss the purpose of 3-F Method concept and how it is calculated. 

 Also perform your own research/analysis using these factors and provide your assessment on whether the United States need to introduce top talents in the field of big data and cloud computing by using bibliometrics. 

Note: Please write about 250 words in APA format with in-text citations and make sure to include atleast 2 references which are scholarly articles.

Week 1 Discussion Topic: Discuss how cloud computing has changed how companies budget for software solutions.

If you have personal experiences, please include those in your response. You must provide references in your responses and document according to APA formatting requirements.

This is associated with the Twitter hack of 2020 and is a continued assurance plan to mitigate weakness while outlining the key roles of leaders and their responsibilities. See Below and Attached.

You will submit your roles and responsibilities portion of the final project. Who are the key leaders of the organization specific to how their responsibilities are connected to the security of the organization’s information? You must also identify key ethical considerations. What are the ramifications of key leaders not properly accounting for ethical and legal considerations? What are the key components of information assurance as they relate to individual roles and responsibilities within the information assurance plan? For example, examine the current policies as they relate to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. 

Chapter – 14 Textbook attached

1. Some say that analytics in general dehumanize managerial activities, and others say they do not. Discuss arguments for both points of view. 200 words

2. What are some of the major privacy concerns in employing intelligent systems on mobile data? 200 words

3. Identify some cases of violations of user privacy from current literature and their impact on data science as a profession. 200 words

4. Search the Internet to find examples of how intelligent systems can facilitate activities such as empowerment, mass customization, and teamwork. 1 page

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For this discussion, you are to choose one graph, and complete these steps based on the graph you chose:

Steps

• State the graph you chose.
• Discuss how you interpreted the graph when you first saw it.
  • What did it tell you about the data represented?
  • Did you find it confusing?
• Now, study the graph. Use your understanding of the topics Graphs, Pie Charts, and Bar Charts to interpret what is being presented.
• Compare your first impression with your second more informed interpretation and answer the following:
  • Is the information presented in a biased way (that is, is it misleading?)
  • What information is being misinterpreted here? How?
  • What type of graph was used and was it used correctly?
  • How could you correct the graph so that it more accurately represents the data?
• Discuss why someone might intentionally use a graph to mislead?

1. Personal Responsibility includes the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making.  Read the article attached defining how programmers need to take personal responsibility for their work.  After reading, write a 200 word reflection on this article.  Question you might answer:  Did you know this?  Things that surprised you about the article (things you did not know).  Research more about this topic and include anything else you learned.  List your sources.

2. What do you think you should do if you are working on a team and one member fails to take personal responsibility?  You have a deadline and the team member decides to leave work before the deadline is met.

Part 2: 5 Points

Reply to another students post.

In your role as communications manager at International Gadgets, you have been tasked with establishing communication standards for the new corporate website. In a memo to your staff, develop a 2–4-page guide for your staff outlining the basics for successful web communications, including issues such as:

The characteristics of online communication

Accessibility issues

Establishing corporate credibility

Privacy and security

Ethical considerations

Allowances for access by various devices

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