Cyber Law – Discussion 3

 A. Explain why there are two types of legal systems in the United States: State and Federal systems. How are they similar and how are they different?

Post should be 500 words and add references in APA format.

Strategic Plans

Describe how a strategic plan for information technology can differ across organizations. 

Provide a real-world example. 

  1. In your first paragraph describe how a strategic plan for information technology can differ across organizations. Use examples in your description.
  2. In your second paragraph, use the example in the posting and discuss how an information technology strategic plan for a global company may differ than for a national (US) company.
  3. In the third paragraph, provide a real-world example, based upon the examples used in the first post.

Research paper – Organisation leader and decision making

 This week’s journal articles focus on transformational leadership and knowledge and knowledge sharing within an organization, please review these concepts and answer the following questions:

  1. How do trustworthy and ethical leaders enhance knowledge sharing in organizations?  How does this impact the rate of information technology implementations?  How does this impact data management within organizations? 
  2. How does servant leadership assist with transferring knowledge in an organization?
  3. When thinking about data analytics, how does transformational leadership assist with building good data structures?

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. 

 Required Reading

Optional Resources:Chapter 5 Journal articles

FP

 

Develop a disaster recovery plan for an organization. There are many different templates available online for you to use as reference and guidance. Your plan should cover the following sections (these sections detail the elements in a DR plan in the sequence defined by industry compliance standards ISO 27031 and ISO 24762): 

  • This section should summarize key action steps (such as where to assemble employees if forced to evacuate the building) and list key contacts with contact information for ease of authorizing and launching the plan.
  • Introduction
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Incident Response
  • Plan Activation
  • Document History
  • Procedures

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

  • Be approximately seven to ten pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
  • Follow APA7 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, the course textbook, and at least ten scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations
  • 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.

Information Security Incident RESEARCH SCENARIO

RESEARCH SCENARIO

ABC Services Ltd (‘ABC’) is a global financial services provider. To comply with local regulatory frameworks, they operate offices around the world, most of which have a legal requirement to store their Know Your Customer (‘KYC’) information in on-site servers.

One of these servers, located in Lebanon, was recently infected with a variation of malware called ransomware, which has prevented ABC from accessing their local KYC data by encrypting it with a secret key. The threat actor behind the attack left behind a file on the server that demands a ransom for the return/decryption of this data.

Once they became aware of this incident, they instructed their local IT team to bring the server offline to mitigate the risk of the malware spreading across their network. They also activated their business continuity plans to minimize disruption to their core business, which involved recreating the servers from backups taken over a month ago.

ABC approached YOU  to help them answer several questions, specifically:

 What type of ransomware was used?

 How is the ransomware typically delivered? 

 What is the likely profile of the original developers of the ransomware?

 What is the likely profile of a threat actor using this ransomware?

 Are there any known methods of decrypting the data encrypted by the ransomware?

 What is the likelihood that the ransomware has exfiltrated data?

 What additional information would you require to investigate whether the threat actor has exfiltrated KYC data?

They have provided you with a sample of the ransomware and asked you to carry out a preliminary investigation. The sample they provided contains the following key information: 

 Info.exe  (the ‘executable’) – this is the file name of the ransomware that was used to encrypt ABC’s data.

[email protected] and [email protected] – these email addresses are provided in the ransom note left as a text file on the client’s systems, as a means of contacting the threat actor. 

 .no_more_ransom – this file name suffix is present on files encrypted by the ransomware that affected your systems and data. 

Your Task

Please research and prepare a written summary of findings to answer ABC’s questions in an MS Word report.  While you will certainly have to make assumptions about the situation, we will expect you to be able to explain and answer above questions at a high level about some of the key technical concepts involved in your findings.

Examples of topics you may consider including in the report are:

 RDP, asymmetric encryption, brute forcing, and phishing. Please be sure to capture the key findings from your research into the malware as well as the potential implications of this incident for ABC. 

  

Explain a situation where using a keyloggers may be used in either a legitimate (legal) way or used as a tool for criminals.

Please write a 350 words essay

Keystroke logging, often referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording (logging) the keys struck on a keyboard, typically covertly, so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored. Explain a situation where using a keyloggers may be used in either a legitimate (legal) way or used as a tool for criminals.