We are living in an age where technology is capturing and processing the details of everything we do through our interconnected devices in real time. 

Sustainability is another issue that affects all of us. Global warming is causing an increase in the density, strength, and location of ferocious tornadoes, uncontrollable wildfires, and sea level rise that can lead to catastrophic floods, tsunamis, and larger numbers of disastrous hurricanes. Lack of access to clean water, proper sanitation, and food security most directly affect those in developing countries. Technology can help alleviate and even remedy some of these concerns.

Ethics are particularly important in the use and administration of information systems since they deal with sensitive personal and corporate information and misuse can impact the lives and well-being of so many. Any discussion about data collection and digital devices raises ethical questions that might include:

Does the availability of data justify their use?

Should shoppers be able to keep their buying habits private?

Can people keep their entertainment, online gaming, and other legal activities confidential?

Do media have the right to publish or post highly private text messages of politicians and celebrities?

Tech Note 14.1 presents a comprehensive set of ethical principles widely used by organizations worldwide to govern ethical behavior in the workplace. Even though companies have ethic codes of conduct standards in place, often times we see bad behavior. For example, read in chapter 14 about unethical behavior such as Volkswagon and a former Goldman Sachs programmer, and all the things going on with Mobile Apps as shown in table 14-1.

Please choose a company that has been hacked in the last two years. Any company will do, but please make sure it is a well known company.

It has been 14 days after the hack has been revealed to the public, it has exposed the personal data of a lot of the US population. You have been hired as an IT Security Consultant by a competitor of this company, to identify what went wrong with the hack and make recommendations to senior management to try and prevent similar incidents from happening to the company that hired you. Management also wants to ensure that the company responds appropriately should reasonable safeguards prove insufficient and a data breach does occur to them.

For the purposes of this exercise, assume that your company has no existing formalized Information Security Program. Include as much detail as you feel is required, but technical details of specific protocols or technologies are not required.

Deliverables

Slide Presentation Covering

• Company that was Breached
• Identify which company you’re consulting for; provide profile
• What kind of attack took place against competitor?
• Provide Timeline of Attack
• What information was stolen?
• How many people were impacted? How?
• What Ramifications (if any) did the company suffer? Or you expect them to suffer?
• What might the company have done differently to prevent this attack?
• How can the company you’re consulting for protect itself? Include several suggestions and explain why they were selected and what impact it is likely to have.

Please be prepared as other students will be encouraged to ask questions and make suggestions.

-Create a two- to three-page Network Security Checklist that will include the components to be used for multilevel security communications in a multilevel trusted environment.

In your checklist, address the severity of threats from a security and risk management aspect. . Those relationships have varying trust levels that translate into multilevel security in communications and information sharing, and are implemented technologically through policies for firewalls, public-key infrastructure (significance of public-key infrastructure), systems certification and accreditation, security vulnerability testing, SSL, IPSEC, and VPNs. Your network security checklist will encompass the levels of degrees of restrictions in these security components to defend against threats while allowing for communications and information sharing.

While developing your checklist, you should include (but you are not limited to) the following components:

• communications and data-sharing policies and the network devices that will be used to implement these policies

• firewalls and how the rule sets will be determined
• systems certification and accreditation demonstrations as required by network administrators who are hosting the summit
• secure communications protocols

• digital authentication mechanisms—How will your nation team establish PKI systems and develop public/private key mechanisms as well as digital certificates? Will your nation team have a centralized key storage system? How else will you establish trust between the nations? You do not have to build an encrypted communications system for your nation team, but you should provide your plan for trusted communications in your Network Security Checklist.
• SSL and IPSEC protocols

• VPNs

Despite the following movie to be considered an oldie now, watch the movie “The Italian Job” staring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Jason Staham, Donald Sutherland and more.

• Provide an overview of what you thought to be real in this movie and what you feel is completely unrealistic from what you know about computers and cybersecurity and what you learned in this class.
• Do crimes/instances like the one portrayed in the movie really happen in real life? What is the most recent breach that you can find that has been summarized on the Internet (somewhere) that did implement the various disciplines and/or skill sets utilzed in this movie to complete successful heists.

Make sure to include all the bullet points are addressed within your submission. There is no preference either way how you cite your sources, however they need to be included in your paper or you will be docked points. Also, do not do a copy and paste from the Internet sites that have a summary of this movie. I am looking for your own thoughts and summary of concepts learned from this exercise. The absolute minimum word count requirement for this extra credit opportunity is 350 words and that does not include your header or intro paper information or your sources used etc….core content is what will be counted and used for the word count you have written up and provided for the extra credit.

: Business Systems Analysis and Design

Getting Started

Join with other fellow students discussing aspects of systems analysis and design. This discussion will focus on development processes.

Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to:

Collect and analyze an organization’s needs for information and develop an appropriate strategy to address the need and to provide the required information service.

Discuss the importance of different user requirement collection techniques.

Describe the skills that are essential for effective analysis and design of information systems.

• Explain the goals and objectives associated with system analysis and system design.
• Transform organizational requirements for information into an appropriate system specification using a variety of system description documents and automated tools.
• Discuss effective methods in determining complete and accurate information to meet user requirements.
• Explain how to extract useful information gathered during an interview session.
• Instructions

Many companies still use traditional structured techniques combined with some object-oriented development. In other companies, some projects are structured, whereas other projects are object-oriented. Explain the differences.

Search the internet for a software development company.

Identify the company and try to glean as much information from their website as possible.

Include customers they have listed, number of employees, and services they offer.

Create a list of questions you would use during the interview process.

1. Post your list of potential questions you might ask the company during the interview process.
2. Determine what kinds of modeling the company does for requirements specification.
3. Determine how this company may help you in your own project.