( In this Assignment, you are going to evaluate a specific business process based on criteria detailed below. If you already have selected a business process, continue using that and skip to the next paragraph. If you have not yet selected the business process you will use for these Assignments, then begin by selecting one. Email your instructor and clearly describe the objective of this […]

Assignment 2: The Wild Frontier, Part 2Due Week 6 and worth 70 points Imagine you are the leader of the IT team at the national headquarters for a company supplying western wear to an international market. The owner, Sam Yosemite, tells your IT team to provide support to four (4) new satellite offices but his instructions are vague and incoherent. You only know that the […]

1. You have 24 point-to-point connections that each requires a 64 kbps peak transmission rate. A 64 kbps circuit costs $400 per month. A 384 kbps fractional T1 circuit costs $800 per month. A 1.544 Mbps T1 circuit costs $1,700 per month. Because of bustiness, lines are in use only 10% of the time. Compare the monthly operating costs of transmission with individual connections (no […]

As a chief security officer (CSO) for a large hospital, you are charged with securing medical health care records. More recently, senior hospital administrators are seeking to provide a complete online portal for all its doctors and   patients. Based on the recent changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act, you are seeking to develop a scenario that affords a secure environment. Patients need to […]

Follow the news for a minimum of one week and make note of all emergency incidents to get an idea of the number and diversity of incidents occurring in communities everywhere.  Please follow local, national, and international emergency incidents. Choose one of the emergency incidents and explain in detail how ICS was used.  Use the terms and proper titles from our course.  Describe what ICS should have […]

Big Switch is a medium-sized sales organization with 100 employees with annual revenue of $10 million. Big Switch has a central office of 30 employees that supports a sales force consisting of 70 employees across 10 regional offices in the United States. Approximately 20% of the Big Switch sales are transacted from customers over the Web and 80% are from face-to-face sales interactions. The company […]

Imagine that you have been recently promoted to serve as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for a Fortune 500 organization. This organization has known brand products across the world and expects top-secret methods for safeguarding proprietary information on its recipes and product lines. The Board of Directors request that their information security strategy be upgraded to allow greater opportunities of secure cloud collaboration between suppliers […]

Public health surveillance and prevention efforts in the U.S. reflect the involvement of numerous health care providers and organizations. Government agencies such as the CDC often function as a hub for the collection, coordination, and communication of public health-related data. Common applications of public health IT to promote and improve the health of populations include (but are not limited to) biosurveillance, disease registries, and immunization […]

Imagine you have recently been hired as the Information security director at a start-up health care research firm, where confidential client data is housed in its Data Center. Currently, the company has 100 employees and expects to expand its workforce to 300 in the next three (3) months and the company is moving to a new location in an urban office building across four (4) […]

Research ways that Information Systems have been misused. Using the Internet, find an example of an organization that has misused Information Systems. Post your response to the discussion board. Respond to the following questions and, if appropriate, include personal experience as part of your answers:  • Write a brief summary (250 words or less) of the example you researched.• Identify the level of the organization […]