security architecture 11.1

 The protections from the security software must continue when the device is taken off the network, such as when it is off-grid, or in airplane mode and similar. Still, much of the time, software writers can expect the device to be online and connected, not only to a local network but to the World Wide Web, as well. Web traffic, as we have seen, has its own peculiar set of security challenges. What are the challenges for an always connected, but highly personalized device?  

Developing Disaster Recovery Backup Procedures and Recovery Instructions

Briefly review at least three of the first page results regarding RTO.

Make a backup of any Lab Assessment Worksheets you may have completed from this

lab manual. If this is the only lab you’ve worked on, then make a mock Lab Assessment

Worksheet using the worksheet from this lab and back that one up instead.

Write the backup procedures and recovery procedures you used.

Describe your personal procedures in terms of your RTO as explained in Web sites

visited earlier in this lab.

Describe ways you can lower the RTO.

Research Paper: COSO Framework

The COSO framework of internal controls is practiced within companies around the world. The objectives of the COSO framework are closely related to its five components. For this week’s activity, please discuss these five components of the COSO framework. Be sure to include each components’ impact on each of the COSO framework objectives. What do you feel an auditor would most be concerned with during an IT audit? Lastly, discuss suggestions for integrating COSO framework compliance into a company in which you are familiar. 

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. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.

• 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.

TCP/IP protocol

 You will type a three to five page paper on the TCP/IP Protocol suite, its history and application. You may use the textbook in addition to researching  the internet for additional sources. Please submit your APA-formatted paper in a Word document. Your paper must be double spaced and include a cover page and a reference page for your cited sources. Please note that the reference page and cover page do not count towards your paper’s three to five pages in length. 

Project: Risk Management Plan

 

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 provide 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.

The project is structured as follows:

Project Part

Deliverable

Project  Part 1

Task  1: Risk Management Plan

Task  2: Risk Assessment Plan

Task  3: Risk Mitigation Plan 

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?

Cloud Computing-2

Compare and contrast business continuity and disaster recovery.  Provide at least three full paragraphs on the subject.  

You must cite at least one scholarly article.

Cloud computing

A three-tier web application architecture has been generically defined as the presentation, business logic, and data storage tiers. However, Amazon Web Services defines the three-tier web application architecture as the web, application, and storage/database tiers.

Write a paper comparing the generic three-tier web application architecture to that applied by Amazon Web Services.

Apply APA Edition 6 formatting.

Use at least three properly documented references (do NOT use wikis).

Correctly cite your references using APA Edition 6 formatting.Your paper should be at least 500 words in length using good grammar.