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For this week’s discussion assignment, please use Google Scholar (  https://scholar.google.com) to search for an article concerning  “Legal Aspects and Digital Forensics”. 

  In order to receive full credit for this assignment, you must summarize the article and state your opinion of what occurred and what could step could have been done differently if any. How digital forensics relies on legal aspects in order to become more efficient and unbiased? 

This assignment is to help you come more familiar with legal aspects and digital forensics. Remember, to cite your references using APA style

Mercury USA is a small- and medium-sized business (SMB) in the transportation sector with 400 employees. 

You’ve just been hired by Mercury USA as the first cyber threat analyst on the team and will work within the existing Information Technology department. Mercury USA has an urgent interest in addressing security vulnerabilities.

Judy “Mac” McNamara, the manager of IT services, said the chief executive officer (CEO) recently learned via a mandatory breach disclosure that a competitor was a victim of ransomware. The firm in question lost a significant amount of intellectual property and customer data and is facing expensive litigation, government fines, and loss of customer confidence. These issues are likely to result in bankruptcy.

Thus, executive management would like to prevent Mercury USA’s critical data (e.g., order data, customer lists, sales leads, Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance for processing credit, proprietary software) from falling into the wrong hands and threatening the survival of the business.

Message from the CEO

The CEO of Mercury USA has recorded a video message for all employees. Watch this video before starting the projects.

Transcript

An Important Message From the CEO

As the cyber threat analyst at Mercury USA, you will be expected to identify security-related issues that hackers could use against the company. You will begin by addressing the security vulnerabilities present in the IT infrastructure of the company and develop a way forward that helps to prevent and deter attacks.

You will be completing three projects for this course:  

Part 1:  Vulnerability Process and Assessment Memo—A two- to three-page memorandum outlining the VM process in which you will use a sample vulnerability scan report to assess security posture and develop a recommended VM process (Week 3)

Part 2:  VM Scanner Background Report—A four- to six-page background report to review a commercial scanning tool and provide a recommendation (Week 5)

Part 3:  Presentation to Management—A five- to 10-slide “pitch” to executive management outlining your assessment of Mercury USA’s security posture, the business need, and seeking a decision on purchasing the commercial tool (Week 7

Topic 1: Due Care and Diligence

Discuss the role of due care and due diligence in regulatory compliance. What are some examples of companies you have heard about that might not have been exercising these in the news? Please use outside research to back up what you say. Be sure to cite your sources.

See attached for examples and also respond to two examples in the provided document.

TOPIC: Networks, Privacy, and Security Presentation

Assessment Description

The purpose of this assignment is to explore legal and ethical issues related to networks, privacy, and security, as well as to research specific types of privacy and security threats and the measures that employee users should take to maintain privacy and security within an organization.

Assume you are part of the IT security team in your organization. Research one common employee IT privacy and security issues and ways that employee users can protect themselves and the business from privacy and security breaches and risks. Some common risks to business include:

• Lack of password management
• Electronic storage and transfer of information
• Privilege abuse by employees
• Use of unapproved hardware and software
• Data mishandling
• Equipment misuse (including hardware and systems)
• Knowledge misuse
• Unapproved workarounds
• Securing company data and information on personal employee devices (e.g., cell phones, tablets)
• Collaboration with third-party service providers
• Social engineering
• Phishing attacks

Summarize your research findings and educate employees about the identified IT privacy and security issues.

Create a PowerPoint presentation with a minimum of six slides that addresses the following:

1. Define the employee privacy/security issue and explain why it could be a risk for an      organization.
2. Provide a specific workplace scenario to illustrate the employee privacy/security issue.
3. Discuss the legal and ethical implications the privacy/security issue presents for the employee, the company, and the customer.
4. Describe the negative impact the employee privacy/security issue could present to the organization in terms of its overall effect on accounting, finance, marketing, management, economics, and general business operations.
5. Discuss the ways that employee users can protect themselves and the business from these types of privacy and security breaches and risks.
6. Discuss specific policies, strategies, and techniques that could be employed by the      organization and the employee to minimize the identified employee privacy/security issue.
7. Discuss how to educate employees about the identified IT privacy and security risks.
8. Include speaker notes at the bottom of each slide.

Submit the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation file only. Do not submit any other file format, such as an Adobe PDF file, or you will not earn full credit.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite to check for Plagiarism .  

I need someone to help me send my campus a circular. I have a list of emails and phone numbers for all of the sophomores and I need someone I can trust to create a five page drive pamphlet that will tell them about the fund drive and direct them to the site. It’s like ‘Go fund me’, but a project for my IT class. So you have to know how to work with mail merge and know how to sort phone numbers on excel comma separate values (csv) spreadsheet to successfully finish the project. It is due by Monday. So please, only serious takers. 

Site to add list to is here: https://myualr-leaks.wixsite.com/astudemy

Some students from Arkansas and some from Minnesota have zip codes that you will need to ask me about before you can add their info

In this exercise, you’ll implement the Cloneable interface for the Product and LineItem classes.

1. Open the project named ch_09_ex3_CloneableTest in the ex_starts directory. Display the ProductCloneApp class and review its code.

2. Implement the Cloneable interface for the Product class. Then, compile the Product and ProductCloneApp classes. If you implemented the Cloneable interface correctly, the ProductCloneApp class should compile.
3. Run the ProductCloneApp class to make sure it works correctly.

4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 for the LineItemCloneApp and LineItem classes.

Need help creating 2 diagrams

Exp19_Excel_Ch05_ML1_RealEstate

Project Description:

You are a real estate analyst who works for Mountain View Realty in the North Utah County area. You have consolidated a list of houses sold during the past few months and want to analyze the data. For a simple analysis, you will outline the data and use the Subtotal feature. You will then create two PivotTables and a PivotChart to perform more in-depth analysis.

Start   Excel. Download and open the file named Exp19_Excel_Ch05_ML1_RealEstate.xlsx. Grader has automatically added   your last name to the beginning of the filename.

Before subtotaling the data, you   want to calculate the selling price as a percentage of the asking price.
 

  In cell G2 in the Sales Subtotals sheet, insert a formula to calculate the   selling price percentage of the asking price, format it with Percent Style   with one decimal place, and then copy the formula down the column.

Real estate agents often analyze   how long houses are on the market. You will calculate the number of days   between the listing date and the sale date.
 

  In cell J2, enter a formula to calculate the number of days between the   listing date and sale date. Copy the formula down the column.

You are about ready to subtotal   the data. First, you will sort the data.
 

  Sort the list by City in alphabetical order, then by Selling Agent in   alphabetical order, and finally by Listing Date in chronological order   (oldest to newest).

You want to display subtotals   for three columns to analyze the averages.
 

  Use the Subtotal feature to calculate the average selling price, percentage   of asking price, and days on market by city. Ensure that Summary below data   is selected, and then click OK. Group the data using the Auto Outline   feature. Collapse the outline to hide the listing and sale dates. Click the   outline symbol to display the grand average and city average rows only.

Now you are ready to format the   data and set a print area to print only a select portion of the worksheet.
 

  Format the average days on market as numbers with zero decimal places. Apply   wrap text in cells G1 and J1. Set a print area for the range C1:J88.

Select individually columns G   and J and change the column width to 10. Change the row height to 24 for the first row.

Go to cell C101, read the   questions, and type the correct answers in the respective highlighted cells   in the range G102:G106. Do not copy and paste results from the subtotal rows.   Type the numeric values rounded to the nearest whole number.
 

  Apply Accounting Number Format with zero decimal places to cell G102.

PivotTables help you analyze   different perspectives of data. You will create a PivotTable using the Sales   Data worksheet.
 

  Click the Sales Data worksheet and create a blank PivotTable on a new   worksheet. Name the new worksheet PivotTable. Name the PivotTable Average City Prices.

Part of the process is arranging   and rearranging fields to provide the perspective to represent the data best.   In addition, you want to display average values instead of total values.
 

  Place the City field in rows, the Selling Agent field in columns, and the   Asking Price and Selling Price fields as values. Display averages rather than   sums with Accounting Number Format with zero decimal places. Pivot the data   by placing the City field below the Values field in the Columns area and   moving the Selling Agent field to the Rows area.

Now you want to focus on real   estate data for only two cities.
 

  Add a filter to cell B3 to display only Alpine   and Cedar Hills.

Go back to the Sales Data   worksheet. You realize that a selling price is incorrect.
 

  Change the selling price for Number 40 from $140,000 to $1,400,000. Refresh the PivotTable.

You want to format the   PivotTable.
 

  Change the widths of columns A, B, C, D, and E to 11. Change the width of column F to 14 and the width of column G to 13.14. Wrap text and center   horizontally data in cells B4, D4, F4, and G4. Apply the Bottom Border to the   range B4:E4. Change the label in cell A5 to Agent. Change the height of row 4 to 40.

You want to create another   PivotTable to look at the selling prices by city.
 

  Display the Sales Data worksheet. Create a Recommended PivotTable using the   Sum of Selling Price by City thumbnail.
  Note, Mac users, insert a PivotTable on a new worksheet. Add City to the Rows   area and Selling Price to the Values area.
 

  Change the name of the new PivotTable worksheet to Selling Price.

Change the value to display   averages not sums. Apply the Accounting Number Format with zero decimal   places to the values. Apply Light Blue, Pivot Style Medium 2 to the   PivotTable.
 

  Note, depending upon the version of Office being used, the style name may be   Pivot Style Medium 2.

You decide to create a   PivotChart to illustrate the PivotTable data visually.
 

  Create a clustered column PivotChart from the PivotTable on the Selling Price   worksheet. Move the chart to a chart sheet named Sales Chart.

The chart should have a   meaningful title. You will also modify some chart attributes.
 

  Change the chart title to Average Selling Price by City and apply Dark Blue font color.   Remove the legend. Apply Dark Blue fill color to the data series.

Create a footer with your name   on the left side, the sheet name code in the center, and the file name code   on the right side of all worksheets. Adjust the Page Setup scaling, if   needed.

Save and close Exp19_Excel_Ch05_ML1_RealEstate.xlsx.   Exit Excel. Submit the file as directed.

Developing in the mobile space can be a daunting task for developers.  Developers must figure out which platforms they should support for their apps, purchase the hardware, and join the developer programs for each platform.   PhoneGap is an open source set of tools which enables developers to create mobile applications for multiple devices by utilizing the same code. It is a hybrid mobile application framework that allows the use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to write applications which are based on the open standards of the web.  MonoTouch and Mono for Android rely on the Mono Framework to function. Mono is a cross-platform open source implementation of the .NET Framework.  Mono is a cross-platform open source implementation of the .NET Framework. 

• How is sharing code being one of the most appealing reasons to use MonoTouch and Mono for Android?  Explain
• How is the use of debugging tools helpful in resolving mobile application issues quickly?

– 2 pages

– apa with references

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publishes Special Publications (SP) to help government agencies and private companies develop and support security programs. The SP 800 subseries deals specifically with computer security. SPs are considered guidelines for nongovernment entities whereas both NIST Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) documents and the SPs are required standards for government agencies. 

Prepare a 1- to 2-page table in Microsoft® Word or a Microsoft® Excel® table in which you outline how a CISO would use the NIST publications to develop security policies.

Include the following column headings: 

• SP number 
• SP name  
• SP purpose

Include the following row headings: 

• SP 800-30 
• SP 800-34 
• SP 800-37 
• SP 800-39 
• SP 800-53 

Part 2 

You were recently hired as CISO for a healthcare company that qualifies as a “Covered Entity” under HIPAA, which means it must comply with the standards of the HIPAA Security Rule. 

Using the table you created in Part 1, write a 2- to 3-page informal comparison outlining the overarching components and outcomes of your NIST-based structure as compared to a structure operating in the global marketplace. Logically explain how NIST compliance influences information security governance and is part of formulating the organization’s desired outcomes. 

Cite all sources using APA guidelines. 

Submit your assignment, including the 1- to 2-page table and the 2- to 3-page comparison.