Ethics

 double-spaced research paper using the current APA version with a title page and reference page. 

Discuss the ethical arguments of mass data collection. Should the government be able to capture everything and store it in a data center like the NSA’s Bluffdale, Utah, facility and search it for keywords? Has it done so in the past? Should the government be able compel companies like Google®, Microsoft, SilentCircle®, and Lavabit® to reveal their customers’ encryption keys? Why or why not? What did the Snowden incident teach people about government surveillance? Be sure to include the ethical issues of your discussion. 

List the Following Briefly 4 sentences

  • 10.1 What are three broad mechanisms that malware can use to propagate?
  • 10.2 What are four broad categories of payloads that malware may carry?
  • 10.3 What are typical phases of operation of a virus or worm?
  • 10.4 What mechanisms can a virus use to conceal itself?
  • 10.5 What is the difference between machine-executable and macro viruses?
  • 10.6 What means can a worm use to access remote systems to propagate?
  • 10.7 What is a “drive-by-download” and how does it differ from a worm?
  • 10.8 What is a “logic bomb”?
  • 10.9 Differentiate among the following: a backdoor, a bot, a keylogger, spyware, and a rootkit? Can they all be present in the same malware?
  • 10.10 List some of the different levels in a system that a rootkit may use.
  • 10.11 Describe some malware countermeasure elements.
  • 10.12 List three places malware mitigation mechanisms may be located.
  • 10.13 Briefly describe the four generations of antivirus software.
  • 10.14 How does behavior-blocking software work?
  • 10.15 What is a distributed denial-of-service system?

week 2 IT470: Computer

 

Week 2 discussion topic

1) Computer security is essential to the protection of personal information and your company’s intellectual property. Please name some common procedures companies use to prevent business assets. Make sure to use real examples and share any resources you have studied?

 2) What is NIST 800-115. Explain how it works? 

Do at least 250 to 300 words

Reply 2 students at least 

Artificial Intelligence

 Provide an overview of the recurrent neural network and compare it with the convolutional neural network   (at a minimum of 2 pages, including images 

 Provide an overview of the generative adversarial network and compare it with the convolutional neural network   (at a minimum of 2 pages, including images 

D1

6 pages(not including cover and reference page) APA formatu 

Find a peer-reviewed scholarly journal article discussing implementing information technology globally. Complete a review of the article by writing a 2-3 page overview of the article. This will be a detailed summary of the journal article, including concepts discussed and findings. Additionally, find one other source (it does not have to be a peer-reviewed journal article) that substantiates the findings in the article you are reviewing.
You should use Google Scholar to find these types of articles.
Once you find the article, you will read it and write a review of it.  This is considered a research article review.
Your paper should meet these requirements: 

  • Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
  • 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 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.

Exp19_Excel_Ch12_HOEAssessment_To_Do_List

Exp19_Excel_Ch12_HOEAssessment_To_Do_List

  

Project Description:

You have been named the new social director of your schools student government association. As part of your position, you organize, meetings, study sessions, and social gatherings. To help manage planning, you have decided to create an Excel template that can be reused each month. To complete this task you will download and edit a template from the template gallery. Automate the portions of the worksheet using the macro recorder and VBA, as well as inspect the document for compatibility and accessibility issues.

     

Start   Excel. Download and open the file named Exp19_Excel_CH12_HOEAssessment_ToDoList.xlsx. Grader has automatically added   your last name to the beginning of the filename.

 

Select the range B2:I7. Click   the Data tab, click Data Validation, and click the Input Message tab. Click   Clear All to remove all data validation comments added by the template   creator. Click OK.

 

Delete column C.

 

Click cell B3, click the Review   tab, and click New Comment. Type the comment Enter Task. Using the previous method, add   the following comments to the corresponding cells.
 

  C3 – Enter   Status
  D3 – Enter   Start Date
  E3 – Enter   Due Date
  F3 – Enter   % Complete

 

Ensure the Developer tab is   enabled. Click cell B4. Click the Developer tab and click Use Relative   References in the Code group. Use the macro recorder to record a macro named DateStamp that inserts the current date   in the active cell. (Note, Mac users, Use Relative References is not   available on Mac).
  Hint: to insert the current date, press CTRL + :

 

Open the VBA Editor and insert a new module. Enter the following code   to create the reset procedure. Once the code is entered, run the macro, and   exit the VBA Editor.
  Note: To exit the VBA Editor, click File and select Save and return to Excel.   Alternatively on PC, press ALT+F11 or ALT+Q.
 

Sub Reset()
‘Resets To Do List
Range(“B4:H7”) =   “”
End Sub

 

 

Insert a Form control button   with the caption Date Stamp spanning the cell C9 and assign the DateStamp   macro. Ensure that the button remains within the borders of cells C9.

 

Insert a Form control button   with the caption Reset spanning the Cell D9 and assign the Reset macro. Click cell B4   and press the Date Stamp button to insert the current date. Then click the   Reset button to test the functionality of the newly created form control   button. 

 

Use the Accessibility Checker to check and identify accessibility   issues. Use the Accessibility checker pane to unmerge the range B2:H2 and   change the Table style to White Table Style Medium 1.

 

Select the range B2:H2, and   remove all borders. Select the range C2:H2, and apply the cell style Heading   1.

 

Select cell B2 and apply the   cell style Heading 2.

 

Insert a new worksheet named Code.

 

Open the VBA Editor, Module1,   and copy the code. Paste the code in the Code worksheet starting in cell A1.

 

Open the VBA Editor, open   Module2, and copy the code. Paste the code in the Code worksheet starting in   cell A10.

 

Save and close Exp19_Excel_CH12_HOEAssessment_ToDoList.xlsx   as a macro-free workbook (.xlsx).   Exit Excel. Submit the file as directed.

Analyzing and data visulization

Discussion: 

Berinato (2016) notes that the nature and purpose of your visualizations must be considered in order to start thinking visually. Berinato combines the nature and purpose into a 2×2 matrix that defines the following four types of visual communication: idea illustration, idea generation, visual discovery, and everyday dataviz.  Select and discuss one of the four types of visual communication: idea illustration, idea generation, visual discovery, and everyday dataviz from Berinato’s 2016 article.

Assignment: 

Research: Quantitative vs QualitativeBackground: Quantitative data can be measured and documented with numbers. Additionally, quantitative data can be represented as quantities. On the other hand, qualitative data is not measured with numbers, but it is represented by qualities. For example, I use quantitative methods to conduct my PhD research because I like working with counts and measures. Write a research paper the contains the following:

  • Discuss Quantitative Methodology
  • Discuss Qualitative Methodology
  • Compare and contrast qualitative data vs quantitative data

Lab exercise

   

Payroll Lab

You will be taking in a file (payroll.txt) which details a number of departments (at least 1) and in each department are a set of employees (each department will have at least 1 employee or it would not appear on the payroll sheet). Your job is to read the file in separate out each employee and calculate the total values (hours, salary, number of employees) for each department and in each category (F1, F2, F3, F4). In your final submission please include the .cpp file which should work for any kind of payroll file I supply (which will naturally match the format of the examples below). Be sure to indicate in your submission text if you have attempted any of the bonus points .

   

An example file:

The IT Department
Bill 8 7 8 9 7 F1
Bob 205103 0.08 F3
Betty 8 8 7 8 8 F2
Brandon 10 10 9 6 9 F2
Brad 9 8 10 9 9 4 1 F4

The Sales Department
Kyle 88840 0.105 F3
Tyler 105203 0.085 F3
Konner 8 6 7 6 9 F2
Sam 309011 0.045 F3
Kent 9 8 9 9 9 0 0 F4
EOF

An additional example file:

The Sales Department
Mike 5 6 1 3 5 F1
Mark 98103 0.115 F3
Jill 8 8 8 8 8 F2

Frank 106101 0.095 F3

Mark 76881 0.091 F3

Department of Records
Konner 8 6 7 6 9 F2
Tammy 7 3 7 2 8 F1

Anika 8 8 8 8 8 F2

Marta 1 0 0 5 2 F1
Kent 9 8 9 9 9 0 0 F4
EOF

   

Last in the row after the hours comes the pay grade (F1, F2, F3, F4). The number of hours recorded is based on the pay grade of the employee. F1 and F2s will have 5 numbers for their hours. F3s are commission based where a sales amount and a commission percentage is given. F3s are also assumed to work 30 hours if their commission is 10% or below and 40 hours if their commission is above 10%. F4s will have 7 numbers (as they are on-call during the weekend). Each of the pay grades will also have different pay calculations which are as follows:

F1 = The total number of hours * 11.25
F2 = (The total number of hours – 35) * 18.95 + 400
F3 = The total sales amount * the commission rate
F4 = The first 5 hourly totals * 22.55 + Any weekend hourly totals (the last 2) * 48.75

Your output to the screen should start with the department name, followed by the total pay for all of the employees, then the total number of hours, and the total number of employees. After that you should have a breakdown of each category of employee: F1 total pay and total hours, F2 total pay and total hours…

Each department will have at least 1 employee and each department will contain the word “Department.”

The IT Department
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##
Roster: Bill, Bob, Betty, Brandon, Brad 

   

F1:
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##

F2:
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##

F3:
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##

F4:
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##

   

The Sales Department
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##
Roster: Kyle, Tyler, Konner, Sam, Kent

   

F1:
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##

F2:
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##

F3:
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##

F4:
Total Salary: $##.##
Total Hours: ###
Total Number of Employees: ##

   

Before coding your solution, take the time to design the program. What are the possible things that the file can have that you need to anticipate? What are the actions that you need to take (read the file, add up hours…)? Are those actions things that could be placed in separate functions? What about the function – can you guess some of the things that will happen? Such as, using substring to pull out part of a line in the file maybe using stoi to convert a string to an integer to add it to the total or creating variables to hold the employee type you find before passing it to another function. Finally, how are these functions called, what is the order and what information is passed to and from? 

Scoring Breakdown

25% program compiles and runs
30% program reads in and calculates the figures for output
10% the program is appropriately commented
35% outputs the correct information in a clear format 

5% bonus to those who can output the F# responses in a columned output like that shown above.

5% order the employees in the roster according to their F status, F1’s first, then F2’s and so on.
5% bonus to those who do a chart comparing the data at the end to show the relation between the pay grades and the amount of salary spent in each (they style of chart is up to you and more points may be given for more difficult charts (like a line chart):

   

B Department
F1 – 00000000
F2 – 000000
F3 – 00000
F4 – 000000000000 

K Department
F1 – 0
F2 – 0000
F3 – 0000000000
F4 – 0000000 

  

Or event something like this instead:

0
0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
F1 F2 F3 F4

Discussion Board post: 300 words each

Reading purpose: 

https://downloads.cloudsecurityalliance.org/assets/research/security-guidance/security-guidance-v4-FINAL.pdf

Topic 1: Section 3.1.1.4 of the given link provides several examples of information privacy and security laws, as well as legal frameworks from across the world. Select one of these areas, laws, or frameworks and discuss how it would impact a US-based company storing data with a cloud service provider or doing business with an organization or individual covered under that area, law, or framework.

Topic 2: Review Domain 4 of the given link. Your organization is transitioning workload from an on-prem data center to a PaaS cloud service offering. Discuss one specific way in which your audit activities must change to address the new hosting structure. What types of impacts could this change have?

Each topic should contain 300 words in length. It should be in your own words.