Monthly Archives: January 2024

Research Paper

Risk management is one of the most important components in empowering an organization to achieve its ultimate vision. With proper risk management culture and knowledge, team members will be “speaking” the same language, and they will leverage common analytical abilities to identify and mitigate potential risks as well as exploit opportunities in a timely fashion. In order to consolidate efforts, the existence of an integrated framework is crucial. This is why an ERM is necessary to the fulfillment of any organization’s goals and objectives.

In your final research project for the course, your task is to write a 7-10 page paper discussing the following concepts:

• Introduction
• Why should an organization Implement an ERM application?
• What are some key challenges and solutions to Implementing an ERM?
• What is Important for an effective ERM?
• Discuss at least one real organization that has been effective with implementing an ERM framework or /application.
• Conclusion, final thoughts for future research
• Recommendation

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately seven 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 ten 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.

Risk Management Fundamentals Lab #1: Identifying Threats and Vulnerabilities in an IT Infrastructure

Critical infrastructure vulnerability assessments are the foundation of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan’s risk-based implementation of protective programs designed to prevent, deter, and mitigate the risk of a terrorist attack while enabling timely, efficient response and restoration in an all-hazards post-event situation.

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.

Research: Quantitative vs Qualitative

Background: Quantitative data can be measured and documented with numbers. Additionally, quantitative data can be represented as quantities. On the other hand, qualitative data is not measured with numbers, but it is represented by qualities. For example, I use quantitative methods to conduct my PhD research because I like working with counts and measures.

Assignment: Write a research paper the contains the following:

• Discuss Quantitative Methodology
• Discuss Qualitative Methodology
• Compare and contrast qualitative data vs quantitative data

Your research paper should be at least 2 pages (600 words), double-spaced, have at least 4 APA references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to use but save it in MS Word format). Your cover page should contain the following: Title, Student’s name, University’s name, Course name, Course number, Professor’s name, and Date.

 How do you feel blockchain will change the global economy or will it?  Explain your answer. 

Written Assignment – Privacy Exposed

Explain (in 3-4 paragraphs) how you feel about the need for Internet privacy. If you value your own privacy, explain why you do. If you feel you have nothing to hide, explain why you believe your privacy is protected.

Week 8 – Discussion

What do you think is the single greatest physical threat to information systems? Fire? Hurricanes? Sabotage? Terrorism? Discuss this question and provide support for your answer.

Writing Assignment – WK 8

Some organizations prohibit workers from bringing certain kinds of devices into the workplace, such as cameras, cell phones, and USB drives. Some businesses require employees to use clear or see-through backpacks when carrying personal items. What other devices might not be allowed in certain facilities, and why would they be restricted? The video on Google’s Data Center may give you some ideas to write about for this assignment.

Your written assignment should consist of 2-3 paragraphs.

Task 3 Do Homework

• 8.1 What is the difference between RFC 5321 and RFC 5322?
• 8.2 What are the SMTP and MIME standards?
• 8.3 What is the difference between a MIME content type and a MIME transfer encoding?
• 8.4 Briefly explain base64 encoding.
• 8.5 Why is base64 conversion useful for an e-mail application?
• 8.6 What is S/MIME?
• 8.7 What are the four principal services provided by S/MIME?
• 8.8 What is the utility of a detached signature?
• 8.9 What is DKIM?

Discussion:

 In no less than 250 words, describe a type of email threat and how a hacker can use it to get sensitive information.  How can a network administrator prevent this type of attach from happening? 

 Answer the following questions. Please ensure to use the Author, YYYY APA citations with any content brought into the assignment.  

For sparse data, discuss why considering only the presence of non-zero values might give a more accurate view of the objects than considering the actual magnitudes of values. When would such an approach not be desirable?

Describe the change in the time complexity of K-means as the number of clusters to be found increases.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of treating clustering as an optimization problem. Among other factors, consider efficiency, non-determinism, and whether an optimization-based approach captures all types of clusterings that are of interest.

What is the time and space complexity of fuzzy c-means? Of SOM? How do these complexities compare to those of K-means?

Explain the difference between likelihood and probability.

Give an example of a set of clusters in which merging based on the closeness of clusters leads to a more natural set of clusters than merging based on the strength of connection (interconnectedness) of clusters.

1 Page in APA 6th format with at least one scholarly (peer-reviewed) resource should be used, reflect on the following topics.

1. Discuss and identify leader traits and attributes that are most beneficial in implementing the best decisions in an organization. 
2. Explain the differences in charismatic and transformational leadership and how both leadership styles impact organizational effectiveness.  Please note how these leadership styles affect implementing new innovative technologies.
3. Review table 8.1 in the reading this week, note the work characteristics and the traditional versus high-performance focus, note which focus is best for strategic decisions and which is best for operational decisions.  Please explain.

Create a Disaster Recovery Plan for either the organization they work for or one they wish to work for in the future. The plan will follow the template/example provided.

Should request prior authorization of the company to be addressed to ensure that all students are working on unique companies.

Even though this is a technical document, for academic purposes, all sources should be cited and referenced.

You may modify some of the sections per the company they have selected but all students will need to complete a DR Plan for the Portfolio Requirement. 

SafeAssign should be turned on and reviewed since it will flag a lot of the common elements but we want to make sure the students are writing the content from scratch.

Enterprise Risk Management Integrating with Strategy and Performance Executive Summary. (2017, June). Retrieved from https://www.coso.org/Documents/2017-COSO-ERM-Integrating-with-Strategy-and-Performance-Executive-Summary.pdf

Do, H., Railwaywalla, M., & Thayer, J. (2016). Integration of ERM with Strategy (p. 35). Retrieved from Poole College of Management, NCSU website: https://erm.ncsu.edu/az/erm/i/chan/library/Integration_of_ERM_and_Strategy_Case_Study.pdf

• Which case study in the paper was most interesting to you and why?
• Do you think that ERM is necessary in the contemporary organization and why?

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
• Provide extensive additional information on the topic
• Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
• Share an applicable personal experience
• 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 . Use proper citations and references in your post.