You are the senior information security manager for a federal agency. You received a phone call from an employee stating that his laptop was stolen from his workstation. He tells you that the laptop has at least 20 cases with Social Security numbers of individuals he has been assisting. How would you handle this security incident? What is the first thing you should do? How […]

 In this phase we will add the Memory Management layer to our toy OS. We will implement demand-paging. Set page size to 8 words, therefore there are 32 frames in our 256 word memory. Each entry in page table consists of the frame number, the valid/invalid-bit, and the modify-bit. We will use two page replacement algorithms, FIFO and LRU. When a page-fault occurs, the offending […]

Identify a current ethical issue involving the use of a recent or emerging technology.  Apply the three-step process in the “comprehensive framework” (or strategy for Approaching Moral Issues in Cybertechnology) that was described in Section 1.6.  Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses (knowledge).

Jamsa (2013) listed10 cloud-based security issues developers must consider when designing for security. List seven along with their pros and cons and their importance to security in the cloud. All seven should be used as headers in your paper. Submission will be checked for plagiarism via SafeAssign. Only one submission is allowed. Only Jamsa listed cloud based security issues will be considered, If anything is […]

Many companies and agencies conduct IT audits to test and assess the rigor of IT security controls in order to mitigate risks to IT networks. Such audits meet compliance mandates by regulatory organizations. Federal IT systems follow Federal Information System Management Act (FISMA) guidelines and report security compliance to US-CERT, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, which handles defense and response to cyberattacks as […]

 Kirk (2016) states that the topic of color can be a minefield.   The judgment involved with selecting the right amount of color for a particular application can be daunting. With regards to visualizations, there are different levers that can be adjusted to create the desired effects (Kirk, 2016). The levers are associated with the HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) color cylinder.Select and elaborate on one of […]

Kirk (2016) states that the topic of color can be a minefield.   The judgement involved with selecting the right amount of color for a particular application can be daunting. With regards to visualizations, there are different levers that can be adjusted to create the desired effects (Kirk, 2016). The levers are associated with the HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) color cylinder.Select and elaborate on one of […]

1.    Please look at the file “Killing With Keyboards” from the class Course Materials/copied resources (file is 14840keyboard.pps) then answer the following questions: a. What is at risk here? Identify 5 possible threats, and 5 vulnerabilities in this scenario.b. Discuss measures that could be taken to reduce the risks. Grading rubric for the Killing with Keyboard assignment  a.    Risksb.    Threatsc.    Vulnerabilitiesd.    Measurese.    Writing standards (approx. […]

  Be sure to address all parts of the topic question as most have multiple parts. A verifiable current event (less than 4 years old) relevant to at least one of the topics you respond to is a fundamental component of your essay as well.  You cannot use information from the text book or any book/article by the author of the text book as a […]

We use many different types of risk management methodologies and tools. A part of the process involves identifying the threats to our system, generally by attackers who would harm our systems and data (assets). I’ve included a project that walks you through a simple threat modeling exercise, using STRIDE, which you will apply using a scenario, to understand the basic process.