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Week 14 Assignment

Required Reading:

Read HAO MENG, ZHI-CHAO CHENG, & TIAN-CHAO GUO. (2016). Positive Team Atmosphere Mediates the Impact of Authentic Leadership on Subordinate Creativity. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 44(3), 355–368.

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Read Brock, J. K.-U., & von Wangenheim, F. (2019). Demystifying AI: What Digital Transformation Leaders Can Teach You about Realistic Artificial Intelligence. California Management Review, 61(4), 110–134. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536504219865226

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Assignment:

At UC, it is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within their own career.

Assignment:
 Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study. 

Requirements:

Provide 2 pages double spaced minimum reflection.

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment. 

You should not, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.

• Distinguish between due care and due diligence.
• Based on your experience, provide examples of due care and due diligence.
  2000 words 

ITS 631 Paper #1 (Chapters 1 – 5 Bourgeois)    Niccole Hyatt, PhD Professor

100 Points Possible  Open Textbook and Resources

Individual Effort Only!

APA format is required. References should be listed immediately after the question that is being answered. Each question lists a minimum number of unique scholarly references; the textbook is considered one unique reference (per question) regardless of how many times it is used. All references should be from the years 2010 to present day.

Review the rubric that will be used to evaluate this paper. All work must be completed individually.

1. Explain the Internet of Things. Use at least three unique references. Length: 4-5 paragraphs. 

2. Identify three security risks of open source software. How can they be overcome? Use at least three unique references. Length: 4-5 paragraphs.

3. What are the advantages of using a data warehouse? What are the disadvantages? Use at least three unique references. Length: 4-5 paragraphs. 

4. Explain VoIP.  Use at least three unique references. Length: 4-5 paragraphs. 

5 Pages 

In 300 Words

You are the web master for the Republican Party National Committee. Prepare a risk assessment analysis for your website. Some questions to consider:

• Who is likely to attack your site?
• When are attacks likely to occur?
• What sort of attacks might take place?
• How can you best minimize attacks and protect the integrity of your site?

Please include references, strictly no copy paste.

 Create a PowerPoint presentation strictly following the instructions in the Presentation file. While you are welcome to do so, this presentation does not require a voice over recording. Only the slides will be required. Please include additional details for your slides as appropriate in the slide notes. 

  Organization I am researching for is: WALMART

ITS 631 Presentation
100 Points Possible, Individual Effort Only! 

Using the organization that you have been researching and writing about during this course, create a PowerPoint presentation with the following slides representing your written papers. Do not copy and paste large sections from your paper to each slide. Your presentation should follow best practices in PowerPoint slide creation. This site may be beneficial to follow if you need help: http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/

1. Slide 1: Cover slide

2. Slide 2: Introduction of the organization

3. Slide 3: Your role within the organization

4. Slide 4: Your summary of the current IT strategy for competitive advantage 

5. Slide 5: The gap(s) you identified which you have sought to address in your project

6. Slide 6: A summary of your research regarding the IT strategy

7. Slide 7: A summary of the positive or negative impacts to business operations involving the IT management processes

8. Slide 8: A summary of your recommendations for TQM, Six Sigma, and/or change management

9. Slide 9: Your 2 recommendations to address the gap(s) identified in your case

10. Slide 10: Your change management plan

11. Slide 11: Your summarized thoughts on IT Governance and security culture within the organization

12. Slide 12: Your overall thoughts of the potential benefits to the organization by implementing your change recommendations 

13. Slide 13: References for all slides (full APA formatted references)

For additional content, use the notes view of PowerPoint to include details. Minimize pictures to those that are relevant to the content. If you quote a source directly in your presentation, a citation must also be included on that slide for the quote in APA format. Do not provide citations for paraphrased information in your slides. For this presentation the final references slide will suffice. 

Assessment criteria (25 points per criteria): 

· The presentation makes good use of course concepts/practices/strategies; 

· The presentation demonstrates understanding of the IT Operational Excellence practices covered during the course; 

· The presentation demonstrates appropriate application of Operational Excellence ideas/concepts/practices/strategies in addressing the case issues;

· Thoroughness, appropriateness, and creativity demonstrated by the descriptions; clarity, organization, coherence, and correctness (spelling, grammar) of the writing, quoted content where appropriate with citations, and full references.

Answer the four questions noted below.  Please use at least one reference and ensure it’s in APA format (as well as the in-text citation).  Also, ensure to NOT COPY DIRECTLY from any source (student or online source), rather rephrase the author’s work and use in-text citations were necessary.

Describe the CIA triad and the defense in depth principle? Why are those concepts important when designing your network security strategy?

What are the steps for an incident response plan? How does network security play into an incident response plan? 

What are some major differences between open source and commercialclosed source software and solutions? Should you consider one over the other? 

What are firewalls? What are VPNs? What are some alternatives to a traditional firewall? What are some alternatives to traditional VPNs? How does the alternatives improve the traditional version of both?

Note: The essay should include an APA cover page and at least two references (academic or professional literature) in APA v7 format.

It is Group Project on Topic : Cloud Storage Advantages and Disadvantages

We are planning to write as below sub topic:

1. Introduction 

2. Advantages

3. Disadvantages

4. Future improvements

5. Suggestion and conclusion ( providing sugestion based upon research/ readings and brief conclusion.)

Here I need only 5th topic on suggestion and conclusion 

1. Visualising the Titanic disaster 

How effect are the graphics in this article?

What are the key points made through the visualization?

2.  Graphical interpretations of data

 What key issues does the author raise with the graphics in the article? 

3. Extending ggplot2 

What’s the article about and what did you learn from it.

Which data storage is the best option for CLOUD

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:

• Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
• Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor
• Provide extensive additional information on the topic
• Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
• Share an applicable personal experience
• Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA 7)
• Make an argument concerning the topic.

At least one scholarly source should be used in the initial discussion thread. Be sure to use information from your readings and other sources from the UC Library. Use proper citations and references in your post.