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Operations Security (ISOL-631-M50)

 If you have you been involved with a company doing a redesign of business processes, discuss what went right during the redesign and what went wrong from your perspective. Additionally, provide a discussion on what could have been done better to minimize the risk of failure. If you have not yet been involved with a business process redesign, research a company that has recently completed one and discuss what went wrong, what went right, and how the company could have done a better job minimizing the risk of failure.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately 4-6 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

• Follow APA7 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.

Questions:

1.       Why does evidence-based medical practice need IT support?

2.       Should only randomized clinical trial results be used to make treatment decisions? Why?

3.       List at least 3 reasons clinical practice guidelines are not used consistently in the US.

I expect 3 pages of fact-based material to answer these questions.

Paper should be APA formatted with citation.

1 page 3 questions

The Final Project has two parts: Limitations of Blockchain and Emerging Concepts.

Blockchain continues to be deployed into various businesses and industries. However, Blockchain is not without its problems.  Several challenges have already been associated with the use of this technology.  Identify at least 5 key challenges to Blockchain. Additionally, discuss potential solutions to these challenges. Lastly, please discuss if we will see the limitations to blockchain be reduced or mitigated in the future.  

There are several emerging concepts that are using Big Data and Blockchain Technology. Please search the internet and highlight 5 emerging concepts that are exploring the use of Blockchain and Big Data and how they are being used.

Conclude your paper with a detailed conclusion section that discusses both limitations and emerging concepts.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately six to eight 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 ten 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

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275 words

Internet-related crime occurs every minute. Cybercriminals steal millions of dollars with near impunity. For everyone that is captured nearly 10,000 or not captured. For every one successful prosecuted in a court of law, 100 get off without punishment or with a warning. Why is it so difficult to prosecute cybercriminals? 

 Discussion

 In no less than 250 words, explain what is meant by an IDS and an IPS.  How are they different?  How are they connected to a network?  List a few examples of IDS/IPS tools that are currently on the market.  

Week 11 Assignment

• 11.1 List and briefly define three classes of intruders.
• 11.2 What are two common techniques used to protect a password file?
• 11.3 What are three benefits that can be provided by an intrusion detection system?
• 11.4 What is the difference between statistical anomaly detection and rule-based intrusion detection?
• 11.5 What metrics are useful for profile-based intrusion detection?
• 11.6 What is the difference between rule-based anomaly detection and rule-based penetration identification?
• 11.7 What is a honeypot?
• 11.8 What is a salt in the context of UNIX password management?
• 11.9 List and briefly define four techniques used to avoid guessable passwords.

Discussion

 Do you believe that all data should be encrypted? Many computing professionals think this is a good idea. But a small number of computing experts feel that no data should be encrypted—that all data and software should be openly available to anyone who wants it. Explain your answer (whether you believe all data should or should not be encrypted). 

Internet Research – Wk 11

In this module, you learned that random numbers (or, at least, pseudorandom numbers) are essential in cryptography, but it is extremely difficult even for powerful hardware and software to generate them. Go online and conduct research on random number generators. What are the different uses of these tools besides cryptography? How do they work? Explain your answer using your own words in 2-3 paragraphs 

please provide the two responses in 75 to 100 words for below discussion posts

Post#1

 COLLAPSE

Nowadays internet is growing very fast and more collaboration services are added to the internet like online payment, online data storage, social apps, and many more so everybody from the home user to a big organization is looking for secure data storage because cyber threats are growing increasingly. Cybercriminals plan strategies for data tempting by accessing the company’s private network after that asks money to save the organizational data, also this is not with a single company, but it is with any home user to any organization. “Although almost all cloud vendors claim that their clouds are safe, security concerns are still raised widely among cloud users” (Chen, Sharieh & Blainey, 2018). To Save from this hassle a business owner can devise the SECaaS i.e. Security as a Service.

SECaaS is based on cloud base platform where a user can save its all data over the cloud and can access it from anywhere in the world, also it is more secured than other platforms like to save locally. Nowadays CIO and CTO of the organizations having the preference for security as a service because of many reasons like cost-effective, easy to use, protection against new threats, Auto-updates and customizations, and many more. “Driven by the advances in sensing, processing, storage, and cloud technologies, sensor deployments are pervasive, and thus an increasing amount of information is available to devices in the Internet of Things (IoT)” (Chen & Zhu,2017). Some of them we will discuss below:

Cost-Effective: There is no special manpower is required to move data from one server to another and vice versa also it saves time as well while doing movement of data.

Ease of Use: There is no specialized training is required for any home user to any organizational IT also it is available to access instantly.

Save from latest cyber threats: As it is always up to date so a business owner can be stress-free as it can tackle to latest cyber threats as well.

Disaster Management: In event of a disaster your data will be saved on the cloud and security as a service ensures the same.

User Authentication & Encryption: This service is based on user authentication with the user’s password for access the data saved is encrypted as well. There are several reasons to choose security as a service.

Flexibility: These offer the particular service you want to choose for your organization instead of a whole package.

Availability: Your data is available 24x7x365 days without any issues. “In the Security-as-a-service model the focus is on security delivered as cloud services; i.e. security provided through the cloud instead of on-premise security solutions” (Sharma, Dhote, & Potey, 2016).

Report:- SECaaS is having the reporting management where you can check the significant security events, attack logs, and other significant data.

TCO:- Total cost of ownership helps to share the results between the traditional following method and new platform i.e. security as a service. Also along with this user can same the time by accessing the content even the user is sitting in any part of the world and last you will find the lower TCO while adapting SECaaS.

Post#2

“Security as a service (SECaaS) is an outsourced service wherein an outside company handles and manages your security”. (Brook, 2018). In the fundamental way, using anti-virus sound over the Internet is the best definition of security as a service. Security as a service no more offers security solutions centrally, where the IT department installs the virus detection software, spam filtering software and other security tools on each computer or network or server, upgrades the software or advises us to use it. The old way to do it is pricey as well. Hardware expenses and licensing costs continue to allow us to use the app. Instead, security as a service helps us to use only a web browser tool to make it direct and cost-effective.

For certain businesses, the security competence deficit is an urgent challenge and in-house protection practitioners have to be able to take their time on the most important business activities. By defining tasks that SECaaS or managed security services (MSS) suppliers can handle, such as program setup, repair, and disaster recovery, companies can prioritize their available time and resources.

In the past, the dominant assumption was that protection could be triggered and left to work, so a big security force wasn’t really necessary. But with the growth of the danger scene and the acceptance of cybersecurity as a continuously evolving war against ever more advanced cyber criminals, this mentality has changed. Companies need to determine whether they need to recruit more protection practitioners-a battle in a very competitive and skilful industry-or whether they need technologies and services. (Byrne, 2018).

Security as a service has many advantages. The most evident is that it includes a web interface to administer the business. It supports ongoing updates and helps outsource manual functions, such as log management. The need for expensive technology consultants and researchers may also be bypassed by using a cloud based security product. SECaaS providers are heavily dependent on their on-going defense and records are continually updated to provide up-to – date security coverage. This also eliminates the problem, instead of integrating all elements into a management scheme, that of providing different infrastructures. Yet SECaaS provides far more security experience, in addition to being an effective means of saving money and time than normally possible within an enterprise. (Panda, 2016).

The use of security as a service has many benefits. Those are:

1. People are working with the most updated and best available security software. To be accurate and useful, anti-virus software must work with the current descriptions of the virus so that risks can be stuffed out and with the latest. People always use software that have the newest risks and options modified with security as a service. This does not mean that the customers should not upgrade their anti-virus software and keep other applications up to date and make sure we use the new security updates. The same is true with email filtering upgrade and repair.

2. We have the right protection staff to work with us. IT security professionals are at our service and may have more expertise and ability than anyone on our IT squad.

3. Faster production. The beauty of the services is that we are able to provide our customers with immediate access to these resources. On request, SECaaS deals are presented so that we can measure up or down as desired and do so with agility and speed.

4. Employees should concentrate on the organisation’s most critical issues. Using a web interface or a management dashboard, it’s easier to administer and regulate our own IT team ‘s security processes in our business.

5. Allows management in-house smoother. It is not enough to keep data secure if we have secured data. We should be mindful whether a customer accesses this information when he or she has no clear business intent.

6. Cost reductions. No hardware or software licensing needs to be purchased or paid for. Instead, it is possible to substitute upfront capital at a discount rate relative to upside costs with contingent operating expenses.

7. Protection against cyber-attacks and threats. Hackers are actively designing ransomware and cyberattacking tactics. With cyber security professionals developing strategies for existing cyber challenges, cyber criminals are increasingly designing new and creative ways to escape detection and penetrate business networks effectively in stealing their data. Therefore, good cyber defense strategies should be good at adapting not only to the current established cyber threats; they should also be able to detect and counteract new threats and emerging threats. We are not only shielded from current threats by outsourcing to an SECaaS provider; we are also protected from new threats. The security company works to be completely mindful of any new risks to cybersecurity. Our provider also guarantees the complete configuration of the network security system to defend against novel cyber-attacks. (Elliott,2020).

This is a required assignment worth 75 points (75-points/1000-points). Assignment must be submitted by the due date. No late assignments are allowed. Please discuss the following topics and provide substantive comments to at least two other posts. Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.  The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 1 & 2  (Jamsa, 2013).Chapter 1 topics:

• Define and discuss cloud computing.
• Discuss how cloud computing has changed how companies budget for software solutions.
• Compare and contrast SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, and provide an example of each.
• Define scalability and discuss how the cloud impacts it.
• List three advantages and three disadvantages of cloud computing.
• Define virtualization and discuss how the cloud impacts it.
• Describe three cloud-based solutions for individuals and three cloud-based solutions for businesses.
• Discuss how Web 2.0 has driven the growth of the web.
• Compare and contrast public, private, community, and hybrid clouds.

Chapter 2 topics:

• Define and describe PaaS
• List the benefits of PaaS
• Describe the potential disadvantages of PaaS
• Describe how a cloud-based database management system differs from an on-site database.
• List the computing resources normally provided with PaaS.
• Assume your company must deploy a .NET solution to the cloud.  Discuss the options available to developers.  Research on the web and estimate the costs associated with deploying a PaaS solution.
• Assume your company must deploy a PHP or Java solution to the cloud.  Discuss the options available to developers.  Research on the web and estimate the costs associated with deploying a PaaS solution.