select a security breach in the news within the last 6 years. You can select the Target breach, Home Depot Breach, Sony Hack, IRS hack or another well-publicized attack. Provide an overview of the attack and where the organization failed. Then tell management what you would have done to possibly stop or mitigate the leaks. When making your recommendations, try using the security methods we’ve […]

 Most of computer attacks could be traced to the fact that security engineers do not fully understand the psychology of the users as well as how scammers get to fool their victims. Attached you will find a very useful article titled “Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security”. Read the article carefully and address the following questions: 1- Do you think understanding scams as […]

You currently works as a research wing for a standard SOC (Security Operations Center).  The SOC keeps analytics on the current trends within the network.  You will be assigned a current issue that has been seen at the border of the network, trying to infiltrate the organizations network/systems.  Upon being assigned your item, it will be your job to go out and search OSINT (Open […]

 Problem 1: 1-D signal restoration via dynamic programming. You are given a 1-D noisy signal I of length n. It can be found in the file hw5data.mat. The goal is to find the corresponding clean signal J. Assume J(α) ∈ {0, 1, 2, …, 255}. You will use dynamic programming to find J such that the Ising energy E(I, J) is minimized. E(I, J) = […]

This week’s reading centered around Bitcoin Economics.  For this week’s  research paper, search the Internet and explain why some organizations  are accepting and other organizations are rejecting the use of Bitcoins  as a standard form of currency.  Your paper needs to identify two major  companies that have adopted Bitcoin technology as well as one that has  refused accepting Bitcoin as a form of currency. Be sure to discuss each […]

This week’s article provided a case study approach which highlights how businesses have integrated Big Data Analytics with their Business Intelligence to gain dominance within their respective industry.  Search the UC Library and/or Google Scholar for a “Fortune 1000” company that has been successful in this integration. Discuss the company, its approach to big data analytics with business intelligence, what they are doing right, what they are doing wrong, and how they can improve […]

The assessment will assess the theoretical understanding of all learning outcomes, subjects and titles for CW from an agreed list provided by the unit team.  Students may also propose their own titles to the course team, if you wish to do this contact Jonathan, Mo or Gareth to get your own title agreed. We expect to see research on the topics, correctly cited and referenced, […]

 1. According to the authors, privacy and security go hand in hand; and hence, privacy cannot be protected without implementing proper security controls and technologies. Today, organizations must make not only reasonable efforts to offer protection of privacy of data, but also must go much further as privacy breaches are damaging to its customers, reputation, and potentially could put the company out of business.  As we […]

 With the arrival of reliable, fast, networked digital information, businesses can track the location and status of all kinds of objects, such as cars and bicycles. This is introducing a new business model different from individual ownership—now, using a car can become a “subscription” service. What options are there for “subscribing” to a car instead of owning one? How about for a bicycle? Are there […]

You will review both quantitative and qualitative research.  The topic is up to you as long as you choose a peer-reviewed, academic research piece.  I suggest choosing a topic that is at least in the same family as your expected dissertation topic so that you can start viewing what is out there.  There are no hard word counts or page requirements as long as you cover the basic guidelines.  You must submit […]