Class, I appreciate your participation in this discussion! For this assignment, you must post your original post addressing the topics below (minimum of 250 words), prior to 11:55 PM ET on Wednesday. Continue to follow your classmates’ posts for the remainder of the week and post at least two follow-up messages (minimum of 150 words each) to your classmates’ posts prior to 11:55 ET on […]

 Under today’s interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), if executives in Florida and North Carolina each pay a rival organization’s unfaithful employee to copy trade secrets from the competitor’s information stores, the Government can charge only one executive, but not both. These cases and many others get decided differently due to the ever-widening split over the CFAA term “without authorization,” currently interpreted […]

 The National Audit Office (NAO) scrutinizes public spending in the United Kingdom. Its memorandum on the BBC’s DMI project reported on several key findings. First, the in-house team was severely challenged by the fact that the project was already 18 months behind schedule when they began work on the project. Second, the technology team issued releases throughout the project that did not meet end-user expectations […]

Quantitative vs. Qualitative Analysis Assignments For this assignment, you will need to perform a quantitative analysis on the below scenario.  Please write your response in a brief APA formatted report. Quantitative Analysis You are the manager of desktop support for NASA.  You are responsible for purchasing and managing all of the laptops NASA distributes to employees.  There are 700 laptops currently in service.  All of […]

This week’s reading discussed the current state of blockchain technology and suggested what the technology may look like in the near future. The author provided several suggestions that would increase blockchain’s value to the enterprise. Create a new thread and choose whether you would consider interoperability or scalability to be more important to blockchain’s future. Explain your decision and use examples. Then think of three […]

As you build your human relations skills, it is very important to establish an acute sensitivity to the impact communication has on your interpersonal relationships at home and at work. Human relations communication starts with your desire to connect with another person.  Sometimes, connecting can be a challenge with technologies such as email, instant messaging, text messaging, and forms of social media.  These modes of […]

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review Goal 1 as found in the DHS Strategic Plan: FY2020-2024. Then review Chapter 2 (from your Week 1 assigned reading) and read Chapter 10 of your primary text. You must select an international terrorist organization and conduct research in the Ashford University Library on the organization. It is recommended that you read the Foreign Terrorist Organizations (Links to […]

Assume a bunch of hackers carries out cyberattacks that affect several parts of the nation’s financial infrastructure over the course of several weeks. Specifically, sensitive credit card processing facilities are hacked and numbers are released to the Internet, causing 120 million cards to be canceled; automated teller machines (ATMs) fail nearly simultaneously across the nation; major companies report payroll checks are not being received by workers, […]

Chapter 19 introduced the impact of the global digital divide. According to the authors, countries that lag behind the rest of the world’s ICT capabilities encounter difficulties at various levels. Discuss specific areas, both within and outside, eGovernance, in which citizens living in a country that lags behind the rest of the world in ICT capacity are lacking. Include in your discussion quality of life, […]

 Ever since the intersection of lightning-fast hardware and brilliant software, machines have been learning how to think like humans. Data scientists use many different kinds of machine learning algorithms to discover patterns in big data that lead to actionable insights. At a high level, these different algorithms can be classified into two groups based on the way they “learn” about data to make predictions: supervised […]