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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. What is privacy?

2. What risks, if any, does facial recognition software raise?

3. How much information about you can be found on-line with a simple google search? 

4. How much information about you can be found by searching government and commercial databases?

5. Describe informed consent. 

6. Should secondary use of consumer provided data be available without notice to the consumer?

7. How do data mining and predictive analytics work? 

8. Watch this Science Friday video by Ira Flatow. And, offer your opinion – Are advancing algorithms taking our free will? 

9. Should Facebook be regulated, at least as far as it’s privacy and data policies? 

10. How many public cameras is too many? 

As a recent graduate, you just landed a job at a career counseling agency. As part of this role, you are given a project to update the resources that are provided to job seekers, including career reference brochures that help individuals understand the career development, lifelong learning opportunities/expectations, and basic requirements to obtain a job in their field.

Your main deliverable for this project will be the written material to be used in the pamphlets. Since you are not a subject matter expert in these areas, you need to use your research skills to find the information needed and cite the sources properly. Just like in the workplace, you are not required to produce the brochure itself; you will research and prepare the content to provide to the graphic design team.

Directions

To complete your Portfolio Project, you will need to: 

⦁ Choose a career or job title to research for this pamphlet – a good tip here is to choose a job or career that you’re interested in pursuing for your future to not only apply the research to your own life but also to make it more interesting for you!

⦁ Conduct research from reputable and reliable sources to create written materials that will guide job seekers in their pathway to a career. 

⦁ You will create three (3) 250-word written paragraphs to be included in the pamphlet on these topics:

⦁ Basic requirements needed to obtain the job: What is required to be considered for this job? Any specific degrees, certificates, experience, etc.?

⦁ Career development opportunities for this job: What does the ‘roadmap’ for this career look like? What are responsibilities that can grow within this field, and what other job titles can come after this one? If this job is one point on the career roadmap, what other milestones can come after it? For instance, a career progression or development path for a nurse might be a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), then Licensed Practicing Nurse (LPN) and then Registered Nurse (RN). 

⦁ Lifelong learning opportunities/expectations for this job: What are professional organizations that an individual in this career path can join? What learning opportunities exist to keep their content knowledge up to date and accurate? What expectations for lifelong learning are set within this field, such as CEU (Continuing Education Units) and/or re-certification requirements?

Requirements and Formatting

Your three (3) content paragraphs should be a minimum of 250 words each. Across all three content paragraphs you must use four (4) total different sources from the Virtual Library, research, coursework in your program of study, and other credible resources to help support your answers. Be sure that you appropriately cite your resources within the written research (parenthetical citation) as well as with a full APA reference citation page.

Your Portfolio Project must be formatted as follows:

⦁ APA formatting, including reference page

⦁ Times New Roman or Arial 12-point font

⦁ 1-inch margins

⦁ Clearly define your work for each content area: Basic Job Requirements, Career Development, and Lifelong Learning Opportunities

you need to do the following things said on the doc  COSC 1436. 

AND IT SHOULD BE PLAGIARISM FREE.

Strategic IT Planning: Your 3-Step Process

Introduction

Strategic IT Planning is required to ensure your resources and assets continue providing the results and the support your organization needs.

What is a Strategic Plan?

It is a roadmap to achieving a goal. It may cover your entire department or responsibility or it may focus on a specific issue or element of your role. It can be long and involved or a simply one-page document that provides guidance and steps you need to implement to achieve a goal.

Making it Happen

There are a few things that are important to your success. While it may seem that developing the Strategic Plan is the hardest part, most plans fail because of the implementation. The key is to keep it small and be successful, then build on that success for the next initiative. Don’t bite off too much or try to be too ambitious.

• Take your time and keep it manageable

• Link your plan to your company’s strategy

• Justify your initiative and get buy-in and support

• Don’t re-invent, rebuild

• Go slow, manage change

• Set aside time from your operational responsibilities to make it happen

Without a Strategic Plan, you and your team won’t be effective and you won’t be able to get results, get attention and get ahead.

Why you need an IT Strategy:

Redirect from tasks to opportunities and result

• Switch from fighting fires to preventing fires

• Reduce risk with planning and a longer view

Most Strategic Plans never get written or they fail because they are too involved and complex. Keep them simple and use these three basic steps as your core approach. Ask yourself these questions:

1. Why do you need to do it? What is your goal?

2. What are the things you need to get done to achieve your goal?

3.  How can you make those things happen?

By following the 3 steps above and writing them down, you will have the outline of your Strategic IT Plan. Then, you establish the tactical things that will help you implement your plan.

Implementation Plan

Once you have established your strategic plan using the 3-step process, you need to develop your implementation plan. This includes getting approval and resources as well as the steps you need to take to achieve your strategic objective.

1. Set the objective for each step

2. Analyze internal/external factors

3. Develop solutions

4. Identify and eliminate barriers

5. Allocate resources (people, time, money)

6. Develop detailed tasks

7. Implement your plan!

Step Implementation

What Are The Roadblocks?

How Can You Overcome The Roadblocks?

What Resources Do You Need?

What Are The Timelines?

What Are The Main Steps To Implement Your Plan?

 1. Discussion:

There are a variety of ways that a cyber-attack can cause economic damage. In many cases, attackers try to “penetrate” systems in order to steal technology or other sensitive information. When do you think an attack can be classified as cyber terrorism?  (Write 350-400 words).

2. Research Paper:

 Penetration testing is a simulated cyberattack against a computer or network that checks for exploitable vulnerabilities. Pen tests can involve attempting to breach application systems, APIs, servers, inputs, and code injection attacks to reveal vulnerabilities. In a well-written, highly-detailed research paper, discuss the following:

• What is penetration testing
• Testing Stages
• Testing Methods
• Testing, web applications and firewalls

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately 4-6 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page. (Remember, APA is double spaced)
• Follow APA 7 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 clear and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Your company recently reviewed the results of a penetration test on your network. Several vulnerabilities were identified, and the IT security management team has recommended mitigation. The manager has asked you to construct a plan of action and milestones (POA&M) given that the following vulnerabilities and mitigations were identified:

• The penetration test showed that not all systems had malware protection software in place. The mitigation was to write a malware defense process to include all employees and retest the system after the process was implemented.
• The penetration test indicated that the data server that houses employee payroll records had an admin password of “admin.” The mitigation was to perform extensive hardening of the data server.
• The penetration test also identified many laptop computers that employees brought to work and connected to the internal network,some of which were easily compromised. The mitigation was to write a bring your own device (BYOD) policy for all employees and train the employees how to use their devices at work.

Complete the 1- to 2-page Plan of Action and Milestones Template.       (Must use this template!)

 This week’s journal article was focused on how information and communication innovation drives change in educational settings. The key focus of the article was how technology-based leadership has driven the digital age. Also, that the role of technology leadership incorporates with the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).In this paper, address the following key concepts:

1. Define TAM and the components.
2. Note how TAM is impacting educational settings.
3. Give an overview of the case study presented and the findings.

Be sure to use the UC Library for scholarly research. Google Scholar is also a great source for research. Please be sure that journal articles are peer-reviewed and are published within the last five years.The paper should meet the following requirements:· 3-5 pages in length (not including title page or references)· APA guidelines must be followed. The paper must include a cover page, an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.· A minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles.The writing should be clear and concise. Headings should be used to transition thoughts. Don’t forget that the grade also includes the quality of writing.Note: This written assignment is a REQUIRED ASSIGNMENT it is worth one-hundred (100) points. You are required to answer the questions as stated in the assignment question in order to obtain credit for the assignment by the due date. If you do not complete the assignment by the due date, you will receive a zero (0) for this assignment. There is a grading criterion associated with this assignment. Your work will be compared to other’s work, using SafeAssign for plagiarism, so please note that copying other people’s responses will not be tolerated. 

Can you complete this worksheet about politics

 Please find the below attachment for the  journal article  on the Complexity of Information Systems Research in the Digital World. 

This week’s journal article was focused on the Complexity of Information Systems Research in the Digital World.  Complexity is increasing as new technologies are emerging every day.  This complexity impacts human experiences.  Organizations are turning to digitally enabled solutions to assist with the emergence of digitalization. 

Please review the article and define the various technologies that are emerging as noted in the article.  Note how these emerging technologies are impacting organizations and what organizations can to do to reduce the burden of digitalization.

Be sure to use the UC Library for scholarly research. Google Scholar is also a great source for research.  Please be sure that journal articles are peer-reviewed and are published within the last five years.

The paper should meet the following requirements:

• 3-5 pages in length (not including title page or references)
• APA guidelines must be followed.  The paper must include a cover page, an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• A minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles.

The writing should be clear and concise.  Headings should be used to transition thoughts.  Don’t forget that the grade also includes the quality of writing.

For this discussion, you will use a census website that posts information on variables observed in the city where you live.  Here is the website address.  https://www.census.gov/acs/www/data/data-tables-and-tools/data-profiles/2017/ (Links to an external site.)

 (Links to an external site.)After you open the website, you can enter the name of your state (georgia) on the left at the bottom and the name of your city (Kennesaw) on the right of the landing page.  You will see links to 4 sets of information on your area:  social, education, housing, and demographic.  You will be assessing the change in one variable you select for two different years. For example, data from the entire United States could be used to compare the percentage of women never married for the years 2010 and 2017.

Once you have selected your variable and obtained the information, answer the following questions:

•  Was there a difference in the values of your variable? 
• How would you write the null hypothesis if you wanted to test the differences statistically?
• Does the difference appear to be a significant one? How would you substantiate that?
• Is the difference important?
• What are the consequences of the change in your values for your community? For example, a significant increase in the number of women never married could affect the birth rate.  It could also mean more women are attending college and becoming self-sufficient.