Practical Connection Assignment

course name: Cryptography (ISOL-535-B05)

 

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 a 500 word (or 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.

· 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.

Block Chain Technologies and Business

The theme of this research paper is Block Chain technologies. For this assignment, you must

research the theme with a focus on potential business applications of it (including yet beyond

Fintech). You must research current trends and summarize your research as a report. The

general structure of the report is as follows:

1. An introductory section about the current hype surrounding block chain technologies,

providing context for your report;

2. A description of select applications of Blockchain to business (minimum 3). Choose 1

particularly business areas (of your interest) in mind (e.g., HR, Marketing and Sales,

or  Operations) and provide three applications of Block Chain int those business areas. You must also describe and analyze these technologies based on

their potential to be game changers;

3. The challenges for such applications to become widespread and beneficial to

companies;

4. A conclusion section (with your takeaway from the discussion).

requirements

Your report must adhere to APA formatting;

2. You must research at least 5 recent (i.e., less than 5 years) peer-reviewed articles.

Exceptionally, highly regarded industry sources (e.g., IBM, Oracle, SAP, McKinsey,

Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini) will be accepted;

3. Other than APA formatting, the structure for the paper is not fixed, as long as there is

a logical flow of ideas. The length of the paper is 5-6 pages

Articlee writing

please discuss the case involving the United States of America versus Ross Ulbrecht.

Words: 500 words APA format

7 questions

  

1) Read this Time article and view the video(https://time.com/5168202/russia-troll-internet-research-agency/) explaining how Russian trolls spread fake news.  Discuss in 500 words whether the government should regulate Facebook more closely.  

Use at least three sources. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library(https://libguides.nec.edu/az.php), not Google.   Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosing the copied words in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragraphs. Do Not Doublespace.

2) Answer each these questions in a paragraph with at least five sentences: Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer.

1. Describe Digital Literacy (how to know what is real on the web). 

2. None of these people exist. What does this mean to you?

3. Why is Wikipedia more reliable than a paper encyclopedia?

4. How useful are crowd sources answers?

5. What are some drawbacks to crowd sourced answers?

6. Do people generally utilize the diversity of sources on the Internet effectively?

7. How reliant are we and how reliant should we be on getting our news from social media?

8. How do humans remain vigilant when we turn over authority to computers? Have you tried to navigate without gps?

9. If models are simplifications or reality, why do we rely on them?

10. Why was this model, used by Amazon for hiring, wrong?

11. Why did Skynet declare war on the human race?

3) The purpose of this assignment is to pick a topic for your research project. The topic should be of graduate level not a survey. Investigate an important question. 

Your Research Project will be a presentation on some aspect of the surveillance state.  Do a five source annotated bibliography/reference list on the subject. There should be two annotations for each source. In the first write a paragraph of at least five sentences summarizing the thesis of the article. In the second write a paragraph of at least five sentences summarizing your reflections on the thesis of the article. You should do a deep dive into a topic. Do not do a survey. Make use of academic references such as you can find in the Danforth LIbrary research databases 

Use at least five sources.

Copying without attribution or the use of spinbot or other word substitution software will result in a grade of 0. 

Short excerpt on the Surveillance State :

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4) Discuss in 500 words your opinion on what lessons should be learned from the 737 Max 8 crashes. 

Use at least three sources. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library(https://libguides.nec.edu/az.php), not Google.   Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosing the copied words in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragraphs. Do Not Doublespace.

Copying without attribution or the use of spinbot or other word substitution software will result in a grade of 0. 

5) Your Research Project on the surveillance state consists of two parts:

1 a Powerpoint presentation consisting of at least 12 slides not including title and references.

2. 750 word research  paper with at least 3 sources. There should be no lists. Write in essay format not outline format. Include a meaningful title.

Do not double space.

You must include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosing the copied words in quotation marks and cited in-line. 

There should be no lists – bulleted, numbered or otherwise. 

Write in essay format with coherent paragraphs not in outline format. Distribute your quotes among the paragraphs.

The topic must be appropriate for graduate level. Find a topic that we covered in the course and dig deeper or find something that will help you in your work or in a subject area of interest related to the course topic. Use academically appropriate resources which you can find in the Danforth Library Research Databases.( https://www.nec.edu/students-faculty-staff/library-danforth/research-help/databases-help/)

6) Do a bit of research on penetration testing techniques. Investigate and document the following

· Five network penetration testing techniques

· Advantages and disadvantages of each

· One notable social engineering test

· Possible negative implications of penetration tesing

Please write between 300 words

7) Prepare a final project on a web application security topic. The primary deliverables for the project will be a paper and and also a presentation “Topic : White Hat Hacking”, Include a short paragraph describing your project and how you intend to research it. 

· Week 11. Submit final project.

· Week 12. Submit a brief abstract describing your final project.

Week 13. Submit final project materials.

o 500-700 word, double spaced, written in APA format, showing sources and a bibliography

Paper

 List possible training requirements for an SaaS solution integration, a PaaS application migration, and an IaaS application migration.

List and describe budget considerations one should evaluate before moving an application to the cloud.

Final Project

Overview:

In the meeting with your executives, your CEO announced that you would need to

prepare a PowerPoint presentation of your department achievements for the last quarter

and present it in front of the hospital’s board of trustees who will be visiting your hospital

by the end of the month.

Instructions:

Based on that information, your IT Director asked you to prepare a 12-15-page

PowerPoint presentation which will take a fifteen-minute time slot where you discuss the

following:

• As you have opted for Windows-based computers, what are the significant

differences between a Mac and a Windows-based computer?

• What are the main differences between the leading operating systems: Windows,

Mac OS, and Linux?

• What are the measures that you are taking to keep computers safe and to avoid

health hazards from computer use?

• Is the hospital safe and immune from online annoyances such as spam and

adware? How can you further secure your system from malware?

• The advantages of your recent implementation of VoIP?

• Describe the improvements you have implemented in the hospital’s customer

relationship management (CRM) and how are you managing your relationship

with your vendors.

• Discuss whether the adoption of a medical expert system could be beneficial to

the doctors at your Hospital.

• Describe how social media can be effectively used as part of the hospital’s web

strategies and improve its position in the market?

Requirements:

• This assignment is a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 12-15 slides, using

APA formatting and citations.

• Include four references.

• Record voice narration and include closed captioning or script saved to the notes

in PowerPoint.

o For instructions to add narration to a slideshow: https://support.office.com/enus/article/record-a-slide-show-with-narration-and-slide-timings-0b9502c6-5f6c-40aeb1e7-e47d8741161c#OfficeVersion=Office_365

Theory vs practise

  1. How are the seminal contributions in your field led to the key practices in your IT field?
  2. What have been the most beneficial accomplishments of the practices?
  3. Are there any bad results? (Bad means the results were not helpful and may be embarrassing, but no tangible harm was done to the business or organization.)
  4. Any bad results? (bad means that harm did come to the business or organization.) Why or why not?

minimum 2 references and 450 words

discussion 11/28

 Discuss the preparation within your own organization in regards to your Emergency Operations Center.  What are the pros and cons of your current preparations? 

300 words

100 words overview.