Week 6 Assignment – Physical Access Security

Introduction

In this assignment, you will search the Web to identify incidents of current physical security breaches, analyze each incident, and identify best practices that could have been used to prevent the attacks.The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Research examples of physical security breaches.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Instructions

Write a 3- to 5-page paper in which you analyze two physical security breaches.Using either the Wall Street Journal or U.S. Newsstream, search for the term “physical security breach.” Select two news articles on the search topic that were posted within the last six months.

Article 1

• Summarize, concisely, the key details of the physical security breach described in Article 1. 
  • Include the date of the attack, the type of attack, who or what was affected, and any reported loss of revenue or personally identifiable information (PII).
  • Provide a screenshot that includes the article’s name and the date it was published, along with a valid URL.
• Describe, clearly and accurately, the steps described in Article 1 that were taken, or are being taken, to alleviate the effects of the breach after the fact or to resolve the issue.
• Explain whether the physical security breach described in Article 1 was preventable, why or why not, and if preventable, what preventive steps could have been taken. 
  • Note: These are steps that would have prevented the security breach from having occurred in the first place, not mitigation steps taken after the breach has already occurred.
• Describe the physical access security best practices that could have been used to prevent the breach described in Article 1, citing specific, credible sources of best practices.

Article 2

• Summarize, concisely, the key details of the physical security breach described in Article 2. 
  • Include the date of the attack, the type of attack, who or what was affected, and any reported loss of revenue or personally identifiable information (PII).
  • Provide a screenshot that includes the article’s name and the date it was published, along with a valid URL.
• Describe, clearly and accurately, the steps described in Article 2 that were taken, or are being taken, to alleviate the effects of the breach after the fact or to resolve the issue.
• Explain whether the physical security breach described in Article 2 was preventable, why or why not, and if preventable, what preventive steps could have been taken. 
  • Note: These are steps that would have prevented the security breach from having occurred in the first place, not mitigation steps taken after the breach has already occurred.
• Describe the physical access security best practices that could have been used to prevent the breach described in Article 2, citing specific, credible sources of best practices.

Source Citations and Writing

• Support your main points, assertions, arguments, or conclusions with at least three specific and credible academic references synthesized into a coherent analysis of the evidence. 
  • Cite each source listed on your references page at least one time within your assignment.
  • For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.
• Write clearly and concisely in a manner that is well-organized; grammatically correct; and free of spelling, typographical, formatting, and/or punctuation errors. 
  • Use section headers in your paper to clearly delineate your main topics.

Please provide an elaborate answer to each of the following questions:

1. Name the advantages of optical fiber over twisted-pair and coaxial cable. Please elaborate on your answer.

2. What are the Basic Types of Topologies? What capabilities and limitations do they have?

3. Explain routing concept?

4. Explain switching concept?

5. Explain routing algorithms?

6. What are the four generic architectural components of a public communications network? Define and elaborate on each of term.

7. Explain and elaborate on the impact that communication network applications have had on business and everyday life.

8. Why are standards important for protocols? Please elaborate.

Word Count: 5000 words (maximum)

Your work needs to be well written and have quality information. Your work must be clear and must be able to educate someone with no prior knowledge in the field of operating systems.

Assignment Evaluation Rules:

• Overall presentation 10%

• Structure 10%

• Introduction 10%

• Main body

o Critical analysis/evaluation 50%

o Recommendations 10%

o Conclusion 10%

Use library research to learn more about a great problem solver or innovator (for example, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, Mother Theresa, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Jonas Salk). Find out as much as you can about the methods the person used in seeking solutions. Give an oral presentation of your findings to your class.

1. Script Requirements

This task requires you to create two scripts – one that can run in a Linux environment (BASH) and one that can run in a windows environment (Powershell). The tasks required in both scripts are the same. Scripts must adhere to good design practices and be well commented. Here is a summary of the tasks:

1. Design two Scripts which can be used to create an Inventory (details below) of hardware and software stored on computers in a business. 

2. The names of the Computers (to create the Inventory from), must be read in from a text file. 

3. The Inventory data must then be output to a text file, suitably formatted. 

4. Additional marks will be allocated to students who show independent learning for example outputting to Excel or Word files.

Required Inventory Data

Name of Computer

CPU: Number of cores, clock speed, manufacturer/description

RAM: Total amount. Number of sticks.

Disk Drives: All local disk drives 

Network Interfaces: IP address of each

Local Users: Username and description of each.

Operating System Version 

Uptime

2. Technical Report 

Write a report detailing the work carried out. It should contain the following sections: 

Introduction

Task List

Code with Explanation

Problems and Solutions

Conclusion

Bibliography

3. Submission Requirements

You should submit the following on the Repeat CA section on Moodle by the deadline:

1. Your report in PDF 

2. Your script(s) 

3. The documents produced by your script

a. Write a Java program that is reading from the keyboard a value between 111 and 900 and is printing on the screen the prime factors of the number.

Your program should use a cycle for validating the input (if the value typed from the keyboard is less than 111 or bigger than 900 to print an error and ask the user to input another value).

Also the program should print the prime factors in the order from smallest to biggest. 

For example,

for the value 128 the program should print 128=2*2*2*2*2*2*2 

for the value 122 the program should print: 122=2*61

b. change the program at a. to print one time a prime factor but provide the power of that factor:

for the value 128 the program should print 128=2^7

for the value 122 the program should print: 122=2^1*61^1

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refer to the attached document

Discussion 1

Discussion 2

 Is offshore outsourcing the right thing to do? Why or why not? (Chose ONE AND ONLY ONE position.) 

 A minimum of two APA references with correlating in-text citation(s) are required  

PROJECT STEPS

1. Takara Hiyashi is on the board of the Green Lake Sports Camp, a recreational summer camp in Syracuse, New York. She is using an Excel workbook to analyze the camp’s financials and asks for your help in correcting errors and solving problems with the data.
Go to the Teams worksheet. Takara asks you to correct the errors in the worksheet. Correct the first error as follows:

a. Use the Trace Precedents arrows to find the source of the #VALUE! error in cell C8.

b. Use the Trace Dependents arrows to determine whether the formula in cell C8 causes other errors in the worksheet.

c. Correct the formula in cell C8, which should add the baseball registration fee per person (cell C4) and the equipment fee (cell C7), and then multiply the result by the minimum number of campers (cell C6).

d. Remove the trace arrows.

2. Correct the Name error in cell C22 as follows:

a. Use any error-checking method to determine the source of the error in cell C22, which should calculate the average revenue per week.

b. Correct the error by editing the formula in cell C22.

3. Correct the divide by zero errors as follows:

a. Evaluate the formula in cell C18 to determine which cell is causing the divide by zero error.

b. Correct the formula in cell C18, which should divide the revenue per session (cell C16) by the minimum number of campers (cell C6).

c. Fill the range D18:G18 with the formula in cell C18. 

4. Takara suspects that the remaining divide by zero errors and the two negative values in the range E16:E18 are related to the zero value in cell E6. She wants to make sure that anyone entering the minimum number of campers enters a number greater than zero.
Add data validation to the range C6:G6 as follows:

a. Set a data validation rule for the range C6:G6 that allows only whole number values greater than 0.

b. Add an Input Message using Number of Campers as the Input Message Title and the following text as the Input message:
Enter the minimum number of campers for this session. 

c. Add an Error Alert using the Stop style, Campers Error as the Error Alert Title, and the following text as the Error message:
The minimum number of campers must be greater than 0. 

5. Identify the invalid data in the worksheet and correct the entry as follows:

a. Circle the invalid data in the worksheet.

b. Type 10 as the minimum number of campers for the lacrosse sessions (cell E6).

c. Verify that this change corrected the remaining divide by zero errors and resulted in positive values in the range E16:E18.

6. Go to the Private Lessons worksheet. This worksheet analyzes financial data for private and semi-private lessons, which the camp runs throughout the day. Takara has already created a scenario named Current Campers that calculates profit based on the current number of campers enrolled for each session. She also wants to calculate profit based on the maximum number of campers.
Add a new scenario to compare the profit with maximum enrollments as follows:

a. Use Max Campers as the scenario name.

b. Use the enrolled campers per day data (range C9:G9) as the changing cells.

c. Enter cell values for the Max Campers scenario as shown in bold in Table 1, which are the same values as in the range C8:G8.

Table 1: Cell Values for the Max Campers Scenario

Cell

Value

Baseball_Campers (cell C9)

10

Basketball_Campers (cell D9)

12

Lacrosse_Campers (cell E9)

10

Soccer_Campers (cell F9)

12

Volleyball_Campers (cell G9)

15

7. Takara also wants to calculate profit based on the minimum number of campers.
Add another new scenario to compare the profit with low session enrollment as follows: 

a. Add a scenario to the worksheet using Min Campers as the scenario name.

b. Use the enrolled campers per day data (range C9:G9) as the changing cells.

c. Enter cell values for the Min Campers scenario as shown in bold in Table 2.

Table 2: Cell Values for the Min Campers Scenario

Cell

Value

Baseball_Campers (cell C9)

8

Basketball_Campers (cell D9)

8

Lacrosse_Campers (cell E9)

7

Soccer_Campers (cell F9)

8

Volleyball_Campers (cell G9)

7

8. Show the Min Campers scenario values in the Private Lessons worksheet.

9. Go to the Revised Fees worksheet. Takara is considering whether to change the coaching fees for the private lessons. She has created three scenarios on the Revised Fees worksheet showing the profit with a $5 or $10 increase or a $5 decrease to the coaching fees.
Compare the average profit per session based on the scenarios as follows:

a. Create a Scenario Summary report using the average profit per session (range C11:G11) as the result cells to show how the average profit changes depending on the coaching fee changes. 

b. Use Revised Fees Scenario Report as the name of the worksheet containing the report.

10. Takara also wants to focus on one or two types of private lessons at a time when comparing the average profit per session. Return to the Revised Fees worksheet and create another type of report as follows:

a. Create a Scenario PivotTable report using the average profit per session (range C11:G11) as the result cells to compare the average profit depending on the fee changes in a PivotTable.

b. Use Revised Fees PivotTable as the name of the worksheet containing the PivotTable.

c. Format cells B4:F6 in the Revised Fees PivotTable worksheet using the Accounting number format with 0 decimal places and $ as the symbol.

11. Go to the Games worksheet. Takara wants to determine the number of games the camp can hold on Fridays and Saturdays to make the highest weekly profit without interfering with practices, which are also scheduled for Fridays and Saturdays and use the same resources.
Use Solver to find this information as follows:

a. Use the total weekly profit (cell H17, named Total_Weekly_Profit) as the objective cell in the Solver model, with the goal of determining the maximum value for that cell.

b. Use the number of Friday and Saturday games for the five sports (range C5:G6) as the changing variable cells.

c. Determine and enter the constraints based on the information provided in Table 3.

d. Use Simplex LP as the solving method to find a global optimal solution.

e. Save the Solver model in cell B27.

f. Solve the model, keeping the Solver solution.

Table 3: Solver Constraints

Constraint

Cell or Range

Each game is scheduled at least once on   Friday and once on Saturday

C5:G6

Each Friday and Saturday game value is   an integer

C5:G6

Each sport is scheduled for a game 1   time per week or more

C7:G7

Each sport is scheduled for a game 3   times per week or less

C7:G7

The total number of Friday games is 10   or less

Total_Friday_Games (H5)

The total number of Saturday games is   15 or less

Total_Saturday_Games (H6)

The total number of games per week is   13

Total_Weekly_Games (H7)

The total number of Friday practices is   2 or less 

Friday_Practices (E21)

The total number of Saturday practices   is 2 or less

Saturday_Practices (E22)

The total number of practices per week   is 5 or less

Total_Practices (E23)

12. Takara wants to document the answer Solver found, including the constraints and a list of the values Solver changed to solve the problem. Produce an Answer report for the Solver model as follows:

a. Solve the model again, this time choosing to produce an Answer report.

b. Use Games Answer Report as the name of the worksheet containing the Answer report.

Your workbook should look like the Final Figures on the following pages. Save your changes, close the workbook, and then