According to recent surveys, China, India, and the Philippines are the three most popular countries for IT outsourcing. Write a short paper (4-5 paragraphs) explaining what the appeal would be for US companies to outsource IT functions to these countries. You may discuss cost, labor pool, language, or possibly government support as your reasons. There are many other reasons you may choose to highlight in your paper. […]

W2 Assignment “Physical Memory Subsystem”Operating SystemsPhysical Memory SubsystemYou must have successfully completed the Week 1 assignment before moving on to any assignment from this point forward. If you have not installed your Linux virtual machine and successfully located the “terminal” – please do so at this time.For this assignment you will take a tour of the Physical Memory Subsystem on your Linux Virtual Machine.Your TaskLocate […]

Research the web and find an appropriate incident related to either a successful or failed penetration testing effort, or a successful or unsuccessful hacking attempt against an organization, business or government facility. Lay out the details of the case, and provide your analysis of what was done and why, and speculate on what should  have been done, or could have been done differently. As part […]

The Vice President of Sales for your company has asked you for more information on cloud-based office productivity suites. He tells you that the Sales team is often remote and needs to be able to stay connected to the office. They need to be able to view price sheets, prepare memos and sales agreements, make presentations to clients, have access to their email and schedule, […]

 The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has seen reports of malicious  activity increasing and has become extremely concerned with the  protection of the intellectual property and highly sensitive data  maintained by your organization. As one of your first work assignments  with the company, the CIO requested you identify and draft a report  identifying potential malicious attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities  specific to your organization. In addition, the […]

1. Not all information has the same importance and value to a company. How data is classified is an important factor used in determining the amounts of funding and resources that should be applied to protecting each type of data. Describe the data classification levels within commercial and military organizations and provide examples of the types of information that would be classified at each classification […]

Your boss mentions that recently a number of employees have received calls from individuals who didn’t identify themselves and asked a lot of questions about the company and its computer infrastructure. At first, he thought this was just a computer vendor who was trying to sell your company some new product, but no vendor has approached the company. He also says several strange e-mails requesting […]

Some social scientists have said we have created a “cult of celebrity” in our culture. The concept of celebrity has changed as mass media channels have grown, and as entertainment business has changed. In other words, we had a different concept and type of celebrity in 1925 than we do today because media and entertainment business were different then. It used to be that someone became […]

  compare and contrast the Balanced Scorecard to one of the IT frameworks below (COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, CMMI-Dev). Describe the context in which the Balanced Scorecard and the IT framework would be used. The paper should 3-4 pages in APA format, not counting the title and reference pages. Make sure you include in-text citations. Your paper should cite at least 3 peer-reviewed articles on IT […]

 Topic: We all had the unfortunate experience of seeing how computers can, at times, make life’s journey abit more difficult. This is especially true in knowledge centric workplaces. Describe an example of a very poorly implemented database that you’ve encountered (or read about) that illustrates the potential for really messing things up. Include, in your description, an analysis of what might have caused the problems […]