Select a major organization that was located in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area.  Research their experiences and prepare a report detailing the unexpected challenges the organization encountered in returning their operations to normal. Give suggestions on what might be added to the organization’s contingency plan to mitigate those unexpected challenges.[500 words] 

You will review both quantitative and qualitative research.  The topic is up to you as long as you choose a peer-reviewed, academic research piece.  I suggest choosing a topic that is at least in the same family as your expected dissertation topic so that you can start viewing what is out there.  There are no hard word counts or page requirements as long as you cover the basic guidelines.  You must submit original work, however,  and a paper that returns as a large percentage of copy/paste to other sources will not be accepted.  (Safe Assign will be used to track/monitor your submission for plagiarism. Submissions with a Safe Assign match of more than 25% will not be accepted.) 

Please use APA formatting and include the following information:

• Introduction/Background:  Provide context for the research article.  What led the author(s) to write the piece? What key concepts were explored? Were there weaknesses in prior research that led the author to the current hypothesis or research question?
• Methodology:  Describe how the data was gathered and analyzed.  What research questions or hypotheses were the researcher trying to explore? What statistical analysis was used?
• Study Findings and Results:  What were the major findings from the study? Were there any limitations?
• Conclusions:  Evaluate the article in terms of significance, research methods, readability and the implications of the results.  Does the piece lead into further study? Are there different methods you would have chosen based on what you read? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the article in terms of statistical analysis and application? (This is where a large part of the rubric is covered.) 
• References   

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Use the Week 3 Assignment Template to complete this assignment.

Choose a company to base this paper on. You may use a current or  former employer, but do not disclose anything confidential. Or, you can  pick another organization if you are familiar with their internal (not  customer-facing) information systems. You can disguise the organization  and populate it with famous names. Made-up companies are problematic  because of the amount of detail and realism they require.

You’ve just left an all-hands meeting at this company. The CEO was  very upset at the rise of shadow IT projects, a major indicator that the  company’s internal information system has failed to meet its  needs. Because the current information system is inadequate,  inefficient, and outdated, the CEO is inviting everyone in the  organization to propose a new operational, decision support, or  enterprise information system to replace it. The executives have  allocated $5 million to fund the most promising idea.

This is your chance to make a difference in the company (not to  mention your own career). Write your proposal as a memo that the entire  C-suite will review. Include at least these points, in your own words,  to be persuasive:

1. Identify the main functions of your proposed information system and why they are important to the business.
2. Describe what types of data your information system will hold and how data quality will be ensured.
3. Explain how the old information system handles the functions you  mentioned, the problems that occur, and why your information system will  handle things better.
4. Offer evidence of feasibility: Show that similar information  systems have been built successfully and that they save more money than  they cost.

The executives are busy, so keep your memo to 1–4 pages and avoid any extraneous content.

   0. write 2 paragraphs on Firewalls

                                                   And

• 1 List three design goals for a firewall.
• 2 List four techniques used by firewalls to control access and enforce a security policy.
• 3 What information is used by a typical packet filtering firewall?
• 4 What are some weaknesses of a packet filtering firewall?
• 5 What is the difference between a packet filtering firewall and a stateful inspection firewall?
• 6 What is an application-level gateway?
• 7 What is a circuit-level gateway?
• 8 What are the common characteristics of a bastion host?
• 9 Why is it useful to have host-based firewalls?
• 10 What is a DMZ network and what types of systems would you expect to find on such networks?
• 11 What is the difference between an internal and an external firewall?

Complete Business Impact Analysis Questionnaire. See attachment below. 

Find and view several online videos on recent cyberattacks (less than 2 years ago). Identify the URLs for 2 videos that you think do a particularly good job of illustrating (1) the worst case scenario and (2) the best case scenario when it comes to cybersecurity. Briefly describe each situation and what the worst case scenario could learn from the best case scenario? 

 Description 

Your final research essay will present a comparison of Sara Teasdale’s poem, “There Will Come Soft Rains” and Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Your will address one of the following questions: 

1) What is the role of humanity in each of the two texts? Expand by illustrating the relationship between nature and humanity as represented in the poem and between humanity and technology as represented in the short story. 

the link for the poem: https://poets.org/poem/there-will-come-soft-rains

the link for the short story: https://urcourses.uregina.ca/pluginfile.php/2300543/mod_resource/content/1/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

you need to compare  both the poem and short story and write a research essay based on the question.

International Gadgets is a company with offices throughout the United States and in Europe. There has been a history of miscommunication within office departments, between offices, and, most importantly, between the company and its wide customer base. You have been hired as a manager in the newly created communications department. The purpose of your position is to improve these problematic channels of communications. 

Throughout  the course, you will be studying a variety of technology topics that  are relevant in enterprise settings. Some of you are students  exclusively while others of you work in corporate America. Regardless of  your situation, the advances of modern technologies are disrupting the  way people work, live, and learn. The goal of this research assignment  is to conduct a deep dive analysis on one of the following topic areas.  When conducting your research, you need to identify how digital  transformation in business is a disruptor to the specific topic area  selected. Topic areas to consider include:

• Cloud Computing
• Mobile Computing
• Internet of Things
• Wearable Computing
• Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Systems/Machine Learning
• Security & Privacy
• Social / Collaborative Platforms
• 3-D Printing
• Online Learning & Andragogy

The  final paper includes an exhaustive research study using the outline  below to substantially support your findings. Using the following paper  structure format:

• You are to write a 10-12 page page research paper.
• The paper should be, double-spaced following APA format using a Times New Roman 12-point font.
• Page counts do NOT include cover pages, references, or abstract.

Treat this as if you had an opportunity to publish in a peer-reviewed business or technology journal. 

The paper structure should be as follows:

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Problem Statement
• Research Analysis
• General Findings
• Strength Identification relative to disruption
• Weakness Identification relative to disruption
• Why is this an opportunity?
• Why is it a threat?
• How does this disruption solve problem X?
• Further areas of research to consider
• Conclusion
• References

The grading rubric evaluates the content based on five areas:

• Content, Technical Depth, Business Analysis, Grammar/Spelling, and Citations. 

Assignment:

create a User Interface Design Document for this desktop part of the vehicle of interest application. 

The project background and requirements information are attached. Take the template User Interface Design Template and complete it for your design. 

You are to use Pencil GUI Designer for screen mockups.

This design must conform to good design standards.