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Do a bit of research on CWE, Common Weakness Enumeration.

Write a brief overview of their scoring system.

Pick one of common weaknesses identified on their site and describe it.

Your assignment should be 200-300 of your own words.

Purpose

This project provides an opportunity to apply the competencies gained in the lessons of this course to develop a risk management plan for a fictitious organization to replace its outdated plan.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

You will gain an overall understanding of risk management, its importance, and critical processes required when developing a formal risk management plan for an organization.

Required Source Information and Tools

The following tools and resources that will be needed to complete this project:

• Course textbook
• Internet      access for research

Deliverables

As discussed in this course, risk management is an important process for all organizations. This is particularly true in information systems, which provides critical support for organizational missions. The heart of risk management is a formal risk management plan. The project activities described in this document allow you to fulfill the role of an employee participating in the risk management process in a specific business situation.

Submission Requirements

All project submissions should follow this format:

• Format: Microsoft Word or compatible
• Font: Arial, 10-point,      double-space
• Citation Style: Your school’s preferred style      guide
• Minimum 2 pages per task

Scenario

You are an information technology (IT) intern working for Health Network, Inc. (Health Network), a fictitious health services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Health Network has over 600 employees throughout the organization and generates $500 million USD in annual revenue. The company has two additional locations in Portland, Oregon and Arlington, Virginia, which support a mix of corporate operations. Each corporate facility is located near a co-location data center, where production systems are located and managed by third-party data center hosting vendors. 

Company Products 

Health Network has three main products: HNetExchange, HNetPay, and HNetConnect.

HNetExchange is the primary source of revenue for the company. The service handles secure electronic medical messages that originate from its customers, such as large hospitals, which are then routed to receiving customers such as clinics.

HNetPay is a Web portal used by many of the company’s HNetExchange customers to support the management of secure payments and billing. The HNetPay Web portal, hosted at Health Network production sites, accepts various forms of payments and interacts with credit-card processing organizations much like a Web commerce shopping cart.

HNetConnect is an online directory that lists doctors, clinics, and other medical facilities to allow Health Network customers to find the right type of care at the right locations. It contains doctors’ personal information, work addresses, medical certifications, and types of services that the doctors and clinics offer. Doctors are given credentials and are able to update the information in their profile. Health Network customers, which are the hospitals and clinics, connect to all three of the company’s products using HTTPS connections. Doctors and potential patients are able to make payments and update their profiles using Internet-accessible HTTPS Web sites.

Information Technology Infrastructure Overview

Health Network operates in three production data centers that provide high availability across the company’s products. The data centers host about 1,000 production servers, and Health Network maintains 650 corporate laptops and company-issued mobile devices for its employees.

Threats Identified

Upon review of the current risk management plan, the following threats were identified:

· Loss of company data due to hardware being removed from production systems

· Loss of company information on lost or stolen company-owned assets, such as mobile devices and laptops

· Loss of customers due to production outages caused by various events, such as natural disasters, change management, unstable software, and so on

· Internet threats due to company products being accessible on the Internet

· Insider threats

· Changes in regulatory landscape that may impact operations 

Management Request

Senior management at Health Network has determined that the existing risk management plan for the organization is out of date and a new risk management plan must be developed. Because of the importance of risk management to the organization, senior management is committed to and supportive of the project to develop a new plan. You have been assigned to develop this new plan.

Additional threats other than those described previously may be discovered when re-evaluating the current threat landscape during the risk assessment phase.

The budget for this project has not been defined due to senior management’s desire to react to any and all material risks that are identified within the new plan. Given the company’s annual revenue, reasonable expectations can be determined.

Project Part 1 Task 2: Risk Assessment Plan

After creating an initial draft of the risk management plan, the second part of the assigned project requires you to create a draft of the risk assessment (RA) plan. To do so, you must:

1. Develop an introduction to the plan      explaining its purpose and importance.
2. Create an outline for the RA plan.
3. Define the scope and boundaries for the RA      plan.
4. Research and summarize RA approaches.
5. Identify the key roles and      responsibilities of individuals and departments within the organization as      they pertain to risk assessment.
6. Develop a proposed schedule for the RA      process.
7. Create a professional report detailing the      information above as an initial draft of the RA plan.

Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics

• Did the student demonstrate an      understanding of the competencies covered in the course relating to risk assessments?
• Did the student include all important      components of a RA plan in the outline?
• Did the student demonstrate good research,      reasoning, and decision-making skills in identifying key components and      methodologies?
• Did the student create a professional,      well-developed draft with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?

Describe in 500 words the shared security responsibility model that a dba must be aware of  when moving to the cloud.

Considering the importance of data in organization, it is absolutely essential to secure the data present in the database. What are the strategic and technical security measures for good database security? Be sure to discuss at least one security model to properly develop databases for organizational security. Create a diagram of a security model for your research paper.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. 
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Prior to beginning work on this interactive assignment, review any relevant information in this week’s lecture, review the Class of 2017 yearbook: The premier 100 technology leaders web page (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3154630/class-of-2017-yearbook-the-premier-100-technology-leaders.html) and select two leaders from their list. Compare their leadership strategies and analyze the differences between their two styles. Using examples, analyze the role each leader plays and explain how each leader’s information systems strategy impacts their organizations. Compare these leadership strategies to the IT leadership of an organization where you work or have worked and explain how the leadership in your organization could improve.

Your initial post should be a minimum of 300 words.

Discussion:

Malicious individuals have discovered several methods to attack and defeat cryptosystems. It’s important that understand the threats posed by cryptographic attacks to minimize the risks to your network systems.

Identify one cryptographic attack and how you can protect against it. 

Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least TWO of the following:

• Provide extensive additional information on the topic
• Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
• Share an applicable personal experience

At least two scholarly sources should be used in the initial discussion thread.

Note: Answer should be minimum of 300 words

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – Its is On Demand process, which access to virtualized It Infrastructure through internet.

How this Service helps in computing, networking, storage which helps Cloud providers maintain and monitor the physical infrastructure to deliver IaaS. 

Main criteria for my research about Hoe this service helps current backbone clouds like AWS, that leverage it’s Enterprise in more focus on development and management and also how it is differentiated with PaaS

Detailed analysis and research needed to write in APA format with 4 pages with needed diagrams and references

Discussion: 

What are the various technologies employed by wireless devices to maximize their use of the available radio frequencies? Also discuss methods used to secure 802.11 wireless networking in your initial thread.

At least one scholarly source should be used in the initial discussion thread. Use proper citations and references in your post.

Note: Answer should be a minimum of 300 words

Follow the instructions from attached 

 Summarize what you have learned over the last 9 weeks. Has it changed your opinion about technology? Do you believe technology will continue to evolve? What businesses should concerned about being “phased” out due to new technology? 

Course   

Impact of IT on Individuals, Organizations, and Society

250 words