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 The reading this week discusses strategy and how ERM can be integrated with an organization’s overall strategy. Prepare a research paper on some of the various issues, protocols, methods, frameworks you found and discuss how – if possible – organizations can use ERM as strategy. It is perfectly acceptable if you deem ERM cannot be used as strategy, just back up your claim with scholarly research and justifications. Your paper should meet these requirements: 

• Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. 
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Topic: Home Automation Security and Vulnerabilities

Need to write 600-word paper (excluding References and Title page) written in APA format, showing sources/References and one page with bibliography

 Abstract:

We all recognize that the home technologies are designed such that it makes our lives easier, comfortable and also more convenient. But new conveniences should not mean to bring new problems but that indeed the case is in most of the cases in the current world. The issues of using automation in everything are most often discussed on social media or any blogs etc. For example, connecting home appliances/devices to the Internet makes you dependent on the connection quality and the servers they operate on. In parallel, cybercriminals are waiting on a poor link where they can use those points of entry gain control on the equipment that is open and vulnerable for attacks and use it to their own advantage in most cases. Many studies recently have revealed that number of ways are still there to take control of a smart home equipped and connected with smart devices. One such issue for example, could be a vulnerability in the cloud server with the help of which the home owner controls the house remotely using the controls that operates the devices, or even something seemingly innocuous like a smart light switch. In this paper, we will get in to more details of what devices are currently used as smart home safety/convenient devices and how vulnerable they are with some examples which happened in the real world. Safety measures that can be put in practice if equipped with this technology and other safety practices when decided to use this smart/convenient devices at home.

  Jamsa (2013) noted that “several  companies provide cloud-based backup capabilities.” The author asserted  that the features most companies provide are similar.  One pf  the features he mentioned is file being backed up in an  encrypted format. List this along with the additional three features,  and in your own words explain how utilizing each contribute to  organizational success. 

Deadline: 1/14

Pages: 4-6

This week’s reading centered around how Big Data analytics can be used with Smart Cities. This is exciting and can provide many benefits to individuals as well as organizations. For this week’s research assignment, you are to search the Internet for other uses of Big Data in RADICAL platforms. Please pick an organization or two and discuss the usage of big data in RADICAL platforms including how big data analytics is used in those situations as well as with Smart Cities. Be sure to use the UC Library for scholarly research. Google Scholar is the 2nd best option to use for research.Your paper should meet these requirements:

• Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Overview:

Congratulations! You have been hired as the IT manager at the local hospital; the job

you applied for in the previous unit. Part of your 60-90-day plan is preparing a presentation for the executive board.

Instructions:

Your IT director asked you to prepare a 5-6-page PowerPoint presentation where you

explain the following concepts:

1) The functionality of various web technologies: HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, etc.

And how they could be used to improve the Hospital’s website?

2) Your hospital is currently ranked as second in your region, how can better use of

social media as part of the hospital’s web strategies improve its position?

3) Part of the low-ranking came from a breach on the hospital’s website.

a. How can we remediate this from happening again?

b. Why are we not safe and immune from online annoyances such as spam and adware?

c. How can we further secure our system from malware?

Requirements:

• This assignment is a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 5-6 slides, using APA

formatting and citations.

• Include two references.

Be sure to read the criteria by which your work will be evaluated before you write

and again after you write.

Managerial Challenge

US Airways (American Airlines) owns a piece of land near the Pittsburgh International Airport. The land originally cost US Airways $375,000. The airline is considering building a new training center on this land. US Airways determined that the proposal to build the new training center is acceptable if the original cost of the land is used in the analysis, but the proposal does not meet the airline’s project acceptance criteria if the land cost is above $850,000. Assume the labor and raw materials total $1,720,000. A developer recently offered US Airways $2.5 million for the land. What is the economic profit, opportunity cost, and should US Airways (American Airlines) build the training center at this location? (Chapter 8 Economic Cost)

Submission Details:

• Response should be no more than 250 words
• Include the appropriate calculation 
• Follow the APA style of writing with in-text citations and a reference list if necessary.

. Read Articles:

“U.S. Car Business in Major Shift”

U. S. Car Business Article.pdf

“Car Making in America”

Carmaking In America Article.pdf

 Course – Cloud Computing

• Residency Poster PresentationPrepare a PowerPoint presentation of your preliminary idea for your research project. The PowerPoint presentation must include the following:
  • Background on the problem (1-2 slides)
  • Explanation of the problem to be studied (1-2 slides). Include evidence that the problem is current and significant
  • The overarching research question(s) (1 slide)
  • Identify at least three scholarly sources that directly inform the project. The sources should be relevant and recent.
• Residency Annotated Bibliography (September 26th 1:00 pm EST)  [5 references which includes the references delivered in poster presentation and cover the below requirements for the topic and for which we will be doinfg for final upcoming research paper] Begin organizing the research and topics for your project using an annotated bibliography. The format of the annotated bibliography is a referene to the article, formatted per APA 7th edition, and an annotation or summary of the article. The summary should include important topics and how the topic relates to your research. Your annotations should cover three areas (typically formatted in three paragraphs):
  • Summary: What did the author do? Why? What did he/she find?
  • Analysis: Was the author’s method sound? What information was missing? Is this a scholarly source?
  • Application: Does this article fill a gap in the literature? How would you be able to apply this method/study to yoru study? Is the article universal?
  • Writing annotated bibliographies will help you develop the skills to critically read and identify key points within an article. This will help you determine the validity and usefulness of the articles in relation to your research topic.
• Residency Literature Review (september 26th 6 pm est)You will submit a draft of the literature review portion of your research paper. The literature review will form the main body of your final research paper. This will be where you provide a synthesis of the articles you have found related to your topic. When writing a literature review, you should include or consider the following:
  • An introduction and a conclusion
  • Avoid direct quotes.
  • Organize by topic or theme rather than by author
  • Use headings
  • Show relationships and consider the flow of ideas
• Residency Research Paper (October 1st 7:00 pm est)Submit your professional research paper (15 pages) on a current topic in cloud computing. Amend your paper based on feedback you received during the residency weekend. The paper includes your final literature review and your completed analysis of your chosen research topic. The paper must adhere to APA format and style (APA 7th edition). 

Please use the attached rubric to guide your writing. Please review the example Literature Review for guidance. 

Requirements:

Times New Roman font, 12 point, double spaced

4-5 pages

10+ sources (Peer-reviewed articles )

Correct APA Citations

 The International Plastics, Inc. CEO read your executive summary and would like more information. The CEO would like a detailed explanation of the IT standards, protocols, and communication tools currently in use in the facilities to determine if improvements are needed.

Review the existing International Plastics network diagrams located in the attachment. 

In a table, using Microsoft® Word or Microsoft® Excel®, complete the following:

• Assess the current telecommunications protocols, standards, and collaboration tools used for International Plastics.
• ​​​​​​​Document at least six current standards or protocols used at each location. Use the following table headings:
• Current Telecommunications Standard, Protocol, or Collaboration Tools
• International Plastics Location
• Recommendation for Improvement
• Effects of Improvement

In a 1-page explanation,

• Recommend improvements based on your assessment.
• Explain how you arrived at this recommendation.
• Discuss options you weighed before arriving at this recommendation.
• Outline the advantages and disadvantages of this recommendation. 
• Explain how your recommendation helps the company effectively blend their telecommunications and computer networks.
• Cite at least one scholarly resource and include a citation in APA format.

Data Analysis and Data Mining

As more and more people are becoming connected over the internet and are also becoming more and more dependent to technology, the level of data that happens to be developed over time has been on a gradual rise since the internet and tech boom in 2002*. This sudden increase in data has resulted in various forms of data being developed. One of these forms is known as data analysis where as the other happens to be data mining. These two concepts can closely be assumed to relate, however, this is never the case since these two concepts happen to be rather different in a large number of ways.

For instance, data analysis happens to deal with the extraction, cleaning, transformation, remodeling, visual representation and grouping of data into information that can be consumed and used in making decision or coming up with a particular conclusion. Thus, this does point out that data analysis is mainly used for the main purpose of making sense of complex data that is yet to be processed into understandable information (Zaki & Meira, 2014). Data analysis also happens to be used in testing hypothesis, this results in placing data analysis in being used in statistics, mathematics as well as computer science based structures as a means of deriving a set of findings or conclusions from collected data. 

On the other hand, data mining does happen to follows some principles of data analysis and can be grouped under data mining, however, data mining happens to be the extensive exploration and evaluation of large amounts of data with the purpose of retrieving or identifying a hidden pattern in a large data set. Data mining is also used in developing machine learning and AI system models that happen to be used in conducting effective data analysis. data mining is also known as information discovery since it ends up looking at various sets of data and attaining a fixed finding from the data set presented (Zaki & Meira, 2014). Data mining is also used in a large structure of data that contains immense complexities since it does not require visualization as a result of its initial purpose of making data usable, that is, turning raw data into valuable information.

References

Zaki, M. J., & Meira, W. (2014). Data mining and analysis: fundamental concepts and 

algorithms. Cambridge University Press.