Final Project Topic Name:  Data Center Security

In 100 words (1)

1.  Include a short paragraph describing your project (Data Center Security ) and how you intend to research it. 

In 200 words (2)

2. Brief abstract describing final project (Data Center Security ).

3. 500-600 words, double spaced, written in APA format, showing sources and a bibliography
Please include the following:  

 What is (Data Center Security ).

Advantages/Disadvantages

Challenges one might face

Conclusion:

References:

This is an individual project

Select a company below.

1. using the attached template, prepare a Disaster Recovery Plan.  Instructions are on the first page of the  Disaster Recovery template.

2. prepare a diagram of your disaster recovery solution.

List of Companies:

• Time Warner 
• Aetna 
• American Express
• Nike
• Macys
• Toys R Us
• Computershare
• DirectTV 
• UPS
• Johnson & Johnson 
• Fidelity Investments 

Post your disaster recovery plan and diagram of your disaster recovery solution in PDF’s in the Discussion Board.

Grading – 25 Points broken down as follows:

– 20 Points – Contents of Disaster Recovery Plan

–   5 Points – Disaster Recovery Solution Diagram

Digital forensics involves processing data from many different types of devices, ranging from desktops to laptops, tablets to smartphones, servers to cloud storage, and even devices embedded in automobiles and aircraft. In this project, you will focus on the architecture and imaging of desktop and laptop computers. You will be working in a virtual machine (VM) to image and verify the contents of the following:

• a USB stick
• the random access memory (RAM) and      swap space of a live computer
• a networked computer hard drive

There are seven steps in this project. In the first step, you will review a technical manual containing information about where data of forensic value is typically found inside digital devices. The next two steps will guide you through the process of imaging a USB stick with both Linux and Windows tools. The next step will pose several questions that frequently come up in cases similar to this scenario. In the next step, you will be back to collecting forensic evidence; this time you will be imaging the RAM (memory) and swap space of a live, running computer. In the next step, you will image a computer’s hard drive over the network. In the final step, you will compile all lab notes and reports into one comprehensive report. The final assignment in this project is a forensic imaging lab report that can be presented in a court of law.

Before you can begin imaging the USB drive provided by your supervisor, you need to review your technical manual in order to prepare a memo to give to your company’s legal team. Are you ready to get started?

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Before you have a chance to begin the imaging process, your supervisor calls to tell you that the organization’s legal team has been asking questions about types, sources, and collection of digital information. Team members have also asked about file formats. Your supervisor asks you to prepare a brief explanatory memo. You use the department’s technical manual to compose your memo on finding valuable forensic information and storing digital evidence. You also review image verification using hashing, an important component of digital forensics. 

For the first step in this project, prepare a memo (one to two pages in length following this format) in plain language that summarizes where valuable digital forensic information resides in the device, as well as collection and storage options. The devices to be addressed are USB sticks, RAM and swap space, and operating system hard disks. You will need to research and cite reference sources for each answer contained your memo (e.g., NIST) For each electronic media device described, include a short description of the following:  

• identify the digital media device      examined 
• types of data that can be found      there 
• reasons why the data has potential      value to an investigation in general, and for this case in      particular 
• list the possible digital evidence      storage formats (raw, E01 (ewf), and AFF) and describe the advantages and      disadvantages of each format, and  
• how digital forensic images are      collected (local and remote, memory and disk) and verified.  

Your memo will be included in the final forensic imaging lab report. 

 In the first step in this project, you reviewed technical information and imaging procedures and briefed your legal team on digital forensic basics. Now, it’s time to move forward with the investigation. 

The USB stick may contain intellectual property that you can use to prove the suspect’s guilt, or at least establish intent. Security personnel recovered the stick from the suspect’s desk drawer the night before. You take possession of the stick, recording the physical exchange on the chain-of-custody document prepared by the security officers.  

Your team’s policy is, when practical, to use multiple tools when conducting digital forensic investigations, so you decide to image the USB stick using both Linux and Windows tools. 

To get started, review the lab instructions in the box below, as well as methods of acquisition. Then go to the virtual lab to set up your evidence drive and proceed to enable write protection, sterilize the target media, perform a static acquisition of Linux data, and verify the USB stick on the sterilized media using Linux tools in preparation for the report and notes requested by your supervisor. 

Windows Tools

After imaging the USB drive with Linux in the previous step, your next step is to image the USB drive again, this time using Windows tools. Review the lab instructions in the box below, and then go to the virtual lab. When you complete the activity, review your lab notes and report for accuracy and completeness; they will be included in your final forensic imaging lab report in the final step.

n previous steps, you imaged the USB drive using Linux and Windows tools. In this step, you will create a legal memorandum that responds to pointed questions from your organization’s legal team. The legal team has been involved in cybercrime cases before, but team members want to make sure they are prepared for possible legal challenges. They have requested very specific information about imaging procedures based upon your review of reference sources in the field.

Research sources on digital forensics imaging and mounting procedures before writing your response. Then review Set Up Your Evidence Drive, Hash Functions, Imaging Programs, and Image Verification With Hashing as needed.

Questions from the legal team:

1. Assuming that this is a criminal case that will be heard in a court of law, which hashing algorithm will you use and why?

2. What if the hash of your original does not match your forensic copy? What kinds of issues could that create? What could cause this situation?

3. What if your OS automatically mounts your flash drive prior to creating your forensic duplicate? What kinds of problems could that create?

4. How will you be able to prove that your OS did not automatically mount your flash drive and change its contents prior to the creation of the forensic copy?

The legal team would like you to respond in the form of a brief memo (one to two pages following this format) written in plain, simple English. The memo will be included as an attachment to your final forensic imaging lab report in the final step, so review it carefully for accuracy and completeness.

You are hoping that you will be able to access the suspect’s local computer next.

n the previous step, you addressed the concerns of your company’s legal team. While you were doing so, the suspect’s afternoon training session started, so now you can move to the next stage of your investigation.

Your organization’s IT department backs up the hard drives of HQ computers on a regular basis, so you are interested only in the suspect’s RAM (referred to as volatile data storage) and swap space. The RAM and swap space may reveal programs used to hide or transmit intellectual property, in addition to the intellectual property itself (past or current). You have a four-hour window to acquire the RAM and swap space of his live computer. When you arrive at the suspect’s office, the computer is running, but locked. Fortunately, the company IT department has provided you with the administrator password, so you log on to the system. Review the lab instructions in the box below, and then go to the virtual lab. Follow the steps required to acquire and analyze the RAM and swap space and perform imaging of a live computer.

In the previous step, you acquired and analyzed the RAM and swap space from the suspect’s live, local computer. In this step, you perform a similar analysis on his networked, off-site computer. Take a minute to consider forensic evidence in networks.

Your supervisor confirms that the suspect’s remote office is closed for the weekend, so you are free to image his computer via the network to store the digital evidence. The remote computer is locked, but the company IT department has provided an administrator password for your investigation. Using your forensic workstation at headquarters, you log on to the remote system.

If the image were going to pass unencrypted over an untrusted network (such as the internet), you’d would want to conduct the transfer over SSH, but since you’re on the company network and connecting to the remote office via a VPN, you can use the dd command to transfer a copy of the remote hard drive to your local workstation using the netcat tool.

Review the lab instructions in the box below, and then go to the virtual lab. Follow the steps required to image the computer over the network.

Provide any information related to the issue that you are experiencing and attach any screenshot that you may be able to produce related to the issue.

Review your lab notes and report carefully for accuracy and completeness; they will be included in your final forensic imaging lab report.

Phew! You have conducted an exhaustive investigation of all the suspect’s computer devices in this possible “insider cyber-crime.” In the process, you have written up lab notes and four reports, as well as providing responses to questions from your legal team. The last step in the investigative process is to combine the information that you’ve gathered into a single forensic report that can be presented in a court of law.

Step 7

Now that you’ve completed the necessary acquisition and imaging tasks, you’re ready to compile all your reports and lab notes into a single forensic imaging lab report that you will submit to your supervisor. Your supervisor reminds you that your report may be presented in a court case, so it needs to meet legal requirements. The report should include the following sections:

1. One- to two-page memo addressing the types, sources, collection of digital information, as well as file formats

2. Imaging of a USB drive using Linux tools (lab notes, report)

3. Imaging of a USB drive using Windows tools (lab notes, report)

4. One- to two-page memo responding to questions about imaging procedures

5. RAM and swap acquisition—live, local computer (lab notes, report)

6. Forensic imaging over a network (lab notes, report)

Submit your forensic imaging lab report to your supervisor (instructor) for evaluation

(1). EDITORIAL EXTRACTION

Select any visualisation/infographic and looking at any individual chart included. Try to extract and write down in language terms what this chart shows across the angle, the framing, and (where relevant) the focus?

Does it feel that the definition you have arrived at is consistent with the aims/claims of the chart as it is published? In other words does the chart show and include what you think it is actually supposed to be doing or is there a disconnect?

Assignment Link: http://book.visualisingdata.com/chapter/chapter5

using the link below write the discussion 350 words

Free Markets Didn’t Create the Great Recession

Read the attached opinion piece where the author indicates that the Great Recession of 2009 was not caused by the Free Market, but was instead caused by US Government policies.   

Locate two JOURNAL articles that discuss this topic further. You need to focus on the Abstract, Introduction, Results, and Conclusion. For our purposes, you are not expected to fully understand the Data and Methodology. 

2) 2 replies each 150 words

• Exercise 1: HistogramExercise 1 in the text: You may use any spreadsheet program. Submit a Word document with a screenshot from your computer showing the histogram. Comment your images with  a sentence or so of description in your  own words  of what you are doing.   Please make sure that your images are large enough and high  enough resolution for the reader to see the text in your queries and the results. 
• Execise 2: Calculating QuartilesExercise 2 from the text: Use any spreadsheet program. Submit a Word document showing a screen shot from your computer with the quartiles underlined or highlighted.  Comment your images with a sentence or so of description in your own words of what you are doing.  Please make sure that your images are large enough and high enough resolution for the reader to see the text in your queries and the results. 
• Exercise 3: Central TendencyExercise 3: Use any spreadsheet program. Submit a Word document with a screen shot from your computer showing the highlighted median.  Comment your images with a sentence or so of description in your own words of what you are doing.  Please make sure that your images are large enough and high enough resolution for the reader to see the text in your queries and the results. 
• Exercise 4: DispersionExercise 4: Use any spreadsheet program. Using the data provided in the text, submit a Word document with a screen shot from your computer highlighting the range, standard deviation, IQR, and outliers of Add-on Sales.  Comment your images so the viewer knows what you are doing.  Please make sure that your images are large enough and high enough resolution for the reader to see the text in your queries and the results.
• Exercise 5: Pearson CorrelationExercise 5: Use any spreadsheet program. Using the data provided in the text, create a scatter plot and calculate the Pearson Correlation Coefficient. Comment your images with  a sentence or so of description in your  own words  of what you are doing.   Please make sure that your images are large enough and high  enough resolution for the reader to see the text in your queries and the results. 
• Activity 2: Exploring Sales DataThere is no activity 1.Activity 2: Use the attached dealerships.csv file and any spreadsheet program. Submit a Word document with a screen shot from your computer of your solutions to questions 2 – 7 in the text. Highlight your results.  Comment your images with a sentence or so of description in your own words of what you are doing.  Please make sure that your images are large enough and high enough resolution for the reader to see the text in your queries and the results.  dealerships.csv

## Problem 2 – CSP

Consider the following constraint satisfaction problem. A linear graph has nodes of the following colors:

– Red

– Yellow

– Green

– Blue

– Violet

Each node has a domain of {1, 2, …, 9}.

Each node type has the following constraints on its value:

– Red – No contraints

– Yellow – equals the rightmost digit of of the product of all its neighbors

– Green – equals the rightmost digit of the sum of all its neighbors 

– Blue – equals the leftmost digit of the sum of all its neighbors

– Violet – equals the leftmost digit of the product of all of its neighbors

As a reminder here is the pseudo code for the Min-Conflicts search algorithm:


**Notes:**

– It’s possible that you won’t converge to a solution in a single run. Try a few runs to see if you get to a solution.

– The example is to show you what a problem looks like, we will test/grade your program on different examples

Complete the function *solve_csp* defined below. You may find some helper functions useful.

Mr. Bradley Willman Against Superior Court Judge C. Kline

• The Law enforcement officers are excessively zealous, striving retrospectively to justify their interest in vulnerable, innocent children and imploring the judiciary system’s sympathy.
• Yet again, most police officers have been convicted for possessing child pornography despite pretense claims as undercover investigators. Masquerading and demonstration to justify the overzealous interest in innocent children, the victim of sex offenders can be counterproductive, as verified in the case against Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline.

Preamble

• Bradley Willman, Canadian vigilante sent a Trojan horse program to California Judge Ronald C. Kline, gained unauthorized access to his computer, and found a diary detailing his sexual fantasies involving children and approximately 100 images alleged to be child pornography. 
• Judge Kline’s defense team. At first, the team suggested that the intruder may have planted the evidence.
• Judge Ronald C. Kline. Judge Kline later admitted downloading pornography from the Internet, asserting that one or two pornography images on his computer could be illegal and further stated that he never intended to keep any of the images.
• Judge Kline’s Defense Team. As the case remains in litigation, the defense team argued that all evidence obtained by Mr. Willman must be suppressed because his actions were criminal and was acting as an agent of law enforcement when he broke into Judge Kline’s computer. 
• On behalf of Mr. Willman, the prosecuting team denied the allegation that Mr. Willman acted as a police agent but was a cooperative suspect in the case and accused as potential suspect in at least three U.S. Customs Service investigations of child pornography. 
• Ruling and Consequence.  A federal judge ruled that Mr. Willman acted as a police informant, corrupted all evidence he obtained from Judge Kline’s computer. It is worth noting that the outcome of Mr. Willman’s case against Judge Kline can put forth an across-the-board implication for Judge Kline Defense team and the prosecuting team in the encounter with online informants.
• Lesson Learned. Before conducting an undercover investigation, investigators must take steps to protect their identity and assumed the position of anonymity, if possible. Also, investigators must use expressly designate computers and mobile devices used in the process of undercover investigations. Investigator Must do so to avoid commingling of evidence, possible allegations of personal pedophilic interests, and permanently circumvent far-reaching implications, shame, and humiliation in court.
  1. Judge Kline later admitted downloading pornography from the Internet, asserting that one or two pornography images on his computer could be illegal and further stated that he never intended to keep any of the images.

Question 1. Describe in detail the plan of action, amplifying steps to submit court appeal on behalf of Judge Ronald C. Kline.

1. Bradley Willman sent a Trojan horse program to California Judge Ronald C. Kline, gained unauthorized access to his computer, and found a diary detailing his sexual illusions and imaginations involving children and approximately 100 images alleged to be child pornography. However, Judge Kline’s defense team alleged that the evidence was planted by (the Intruder) Mr. Bradley William.

Question 2. Describe in detail the plan of action, amplifying steps to submit court petition on behalf of Mr. Bradley Willman.

 “There should be no plagiarism. Attach a plagiarism report with 0 % similarity index“

 Task 1:

 Any one of the below topics: 

 1. Cloud Computing 

2. Big Data Analytics

 3. Database Security 

4. Enterprise Architecture 

5. Data Warehouses

 6. Ethics in IT 

7. Web 2.0 

8. E-Commerce 

 The research paper must be at least 10 pages but no more than 12 pages.

 • The paper needs to be supported by evidence (citations from peer-reviewed sources). 

• A minimum of four (4) peer-reviewed journal citations are required. 

• No references should be more than 5 years old.  

Task 2:

• Your PPT should reflect a summary of your Individual Research Report.
• You should have 12-15 slides.

Identify a network that you are familiar with at home or at work. List at least 3 hardware components. What do they each do? You do not need to cite and reference but you do need to explain how they are used.  

500 words.