Industry experts believe blockchain is a technology that has the potential to affect the business of most IT professionals in the next five years. This assignment is for you to develop a research paper based on readings and other research you did regarding Blockchain. Pick an industry you feel will be most affected by Blockchain and describe how Blockchain may be used in that industry. […]

In this final project you examine the SerialNumber class, which is used by the Home Software Company to validate software serial numbers. A valid software serial number is in the form LLLLL-DDDD-LLLL, where L indicates an alphabetic letter and D indicates a numeric digit. For example, WRXTQ-7786-PGVZ is a valid serial number. Notice that a serial number consists of three groups of characters, delimited by […]

Larry Ellison a few years ago arrogantly stated that Jeff Bezos and the team at Amazon will never be able to leave Oracle because the Amazon Database infrastructure could never match that of Oracle’s. We’ve heard similar stories from Teradata, IBM, and even Amazon to others. Why do vendors have such an arrogant position about their technology once an organization invests in a data systems. 

   When  law enforcement becomes involved, the need may arise to freeze systems  as part of the evidence. There is also the likelihood that the incident  will become known publicly. Do you think these issues play a significant  part in the decision to involve law enforcement? Why or why not? Can  you name some situations in which you believe that large organizations  have decided not to […]

Imagine you are an Information Systems Security Specialist for a medium-sized federal government contractor. The Chief Security Officer (CSO) is worried that the organization’s current methods of access control are no longer sufficient. In order to evaluate the different methods of access control, the CSO requested that you research: mandatory access control (MAC), discretionary access control (DAC), and role-based access control (RBAC). Then, prepare a […]

 Submit a 2 page report outlining the potential risks of an individual OS/Server.  After your instructor individually assigns you an operating system or server (posted in the Week 5 discussion board section), you will be required to research vulnerabilities for your assigned software and make recommendations for the mitigation of these vulnerabilities 

Multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to authenticate their identities with at least two factors to access a system or an application. More than half of companies around the world use MFA. For companies that have not implemented MFA, reasons cited include cost, IT effort, and problems with deployments leading to user “friction.”Some organizations deploy MFA only to executives because they have full access to sensitive […]

The United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB) evolved from the Federal Desktop Core Configuration mandate and is a government-wide initiative to maintain and properly update security settings (http://usgcb.nist.gov). Research and summarize at least 2 recent security patches that relate to your current operating system. In a separate paragraph, do you feel these security patches help secure your computer? Why? Defend your response.

The movie “The Martian” can be viewed through the framework of project management. There are two different but simultaneous projects going on in The Martian. One is the survival project of Mark Watney and the other is the project aiming to save him. Watney has the right skills for his survival project: he’s a botanist, he knows how to repair a broken Pathfinder and the most important thing […]

Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in […]