Paper #1: Can we ensure that Open Data is useful AND secure? Scenario: A federal agency has asked your cybersecurity consulting firm to provide it with a white paper that discusses the issues of usefulness and security in regards to Open Data. The white paper is intended for a group of executives at the agency … Read more
Project 1 – The Right to Search Project 1 Scenario Characters: You: Information Security Specialist, Greenwood Company Hubert Jenkins: Human Resources Director, Greenwood Company Mike McBride: (former) engineer, New Product’s Division, Greenwood Co. **Characters will carry through Project 1, 2 and the Final Project. However, please remain conscience of who you are/what roll you play in EACH … Read more
Cyber attack at vBulletin Q1. Find a recent article (within the past 4 months) of a company who has experienced a computer/network threat. Summarize the type of threat, how it affected the company, and what the company has done about the situation. How could this have been prevented? ………..Answer Preview…….. vBulletin, a global … Read more
Critiquing the NIPP Critique the National Infrastructure Protection Plan in the context of strategic targets. Explain why the plan is or is not effective. Support your answer. Argue whether a bottom-up or top-down approach to creating the National Infrastructure Protection Plan is most suitable with the current setup of the nation’s security protections. Support your … Read more
In this assignment, you will read the following article: Riley, B. Elgin, D. Lawrence and C. Matlack. “Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It”, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, March 13, 2014. After reading the article, discuss the data breach incident at Target, from the perspective of managing information systems … Read more
