Information System

InstructionsAs a manager of an organization, you will often need to find ways to cut costs. One way to cut costs is to outsource by hiring another organization to perform the service. Consider the scenario below.As a manager for the public outreach department, you realize that the current system for managing outreach issues is outdated. You would like to have a new outreach system developed using the Cloudera platform to help manage big data. However, no one in the organization has the expertise. You will have to outsource the project to save on costs and avoid management problems. Two companies have sent in a bid—one from Vancouver, Canada, and one from Mumbai, India. The bid from India was slightly lower than the bid from Canada. Compose a response that includes the elements listed below.Define what is meant by outsourcing.Explain how Peter Drucker’s statement (covered in the textbook in uCertify) about how one company’s back room is another company’s front room pertains to outsourcing. Use an example.Summarize the management advantages, cost reduction, and risk reduction of outsourcing.Summarize the outsourcing risks concerning control, long-term costs, and exit strategy.Discuss which company you would outsource to and why. Does distance matter?Your case study must be at least two pages in length (not counting the title and reference pages), and you must use at least two references as a source for your essay. See the Suggested Reading section for some sample articles on outsourcing. Be sure to cite all sources used in APA format, and format your essay in APA style.

Analyze and apply the most appropriate solutions to problems related to the field of Security and Information Assurance.You are assigned to manage keys for a cryptographic system in your company. You found that one of the keys is leaked. What is the impact of a leaked cryptography key to a company? Provide four (4) recommendations to compromise this vulnera

InstructionsRecently, a terminated employee used his mobile device to log in to the company network and steal sensitive data. As the manager of the information technology (IT) security department, you were asked by your boss to present a summary of what the organization should do to prevent this from happening again. Create a PowerPoint presentation of your summary. In your PowerPoint presentation, you should include the components listed below.Explain the goal of information security in relation to mobile devices.Identify the three sources of threats, provide a summary of each, and provide at least one example of each.Explain technical safeguards, and discuss which technical safeguard(s) should be used for mobile devices.Explain data safeguards, and discuss which data safeguard(s) should be used in this type of scenario.Explain human safeguards, and discuss which human safeguard(s) should be implemented.Discuss why the organization needs an incident response plan to secure information and knowledge.Your presentation must be a minimum of six slides in length, not counting the title and reference slides. Be sure that any graphics used are appropriate and support the content of your presentation. You must use at least two references in your presentation, and they should be cited and referenced in APA format. Please cite all sources used.

Compare and contrast the different firewall types and explain their importance (Packet filtering, stateful/ stateless inspection, NGFW/Layer 7, Network Based, application, and proxy firewalls).Please DO NOT USE outside sources or quote your book directly for these discussion – summarize what you want to say in your own words and use examples to illustrate your meanin

Conduct an internet search using the phrase “small office local area network” for network diagram examples to help you complete this assignment.As you continue to work on Great Day Fitness Tracking’s website, you now need to gather business requirements and user requirements to identify the hardware, software, and network requirements to support the online business.Write a 2- to 3-page proposal in Microsoft® Word. Your proposal should:· Describe how you would select appropriate hardware and software to develop the internal business infrastructure.· Explain at least two possible approaches to managing the data for easy access and security.· Describe possible networks that might be used to support business needs.· Create a logical system diagram with a software of your choice showing possible internal connections as well as those between the site and the potential customers.

Eileen Dover, CEO of Good For You! Bakery, decided to open outlet stores two years ago. In some ways, this was a good decision as some stores appear to be doing well. However, the overhead to operate brick-and-mortar stores is high. Ms. Dover wants to examine the data to see which, if any, stores are underperforming so that she can close underperforming outlets if necessary.Good For You! Bakery has data stored in two separate legacy tables: one table for sales data, and one table for cost data. When Ms. Dover created these tables early in the business, she associated each record with a unique store number. (In SAS®, each record is called an observation.)Now Ms. Dover wants you to pull all of this data into two data sets in SAS® , join the data sets, and answer the following questions:Which three stores netted the most profit in 2017? (Note that profit is equal to sales revenue minus costs.)Which three stores netted the least profit in 2017?What recommendation would you give the CEO regarding potential store closings? Include your rationale in detail.

1. Run the program and analyze the results. Then create a Microsoft® Word document named LastName_FirstName_Week5Questions.docx. In the document, type your answers to the following questions: Which three stores netted the most profit in 2017?· Which three stores netted the least profit in 2017?What two recommendations would you give the CEO regarding potential store closings? How is this supposed in the SAS output results?

Mini-Project Assignment #1Short Report on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and the ApplicationsPurpose of the Assignment:This assignment has a two-fold purpose:To keep you update of the current development of information technologies for management.To build up your skills in searching, summarizing and presenting information in an effectivemanner.Requirements of the Assignment:Identify two related articles published RECENTLY that describe/discuss the topic of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and the Applications. One article should be ONLY published on the Internet, and the other article should be ORIGINALLY published off the Internet (but, it may also be available on the Internet).Write a short report in APA (American Psychology Association) style on the information technology discussed in the articles, which accounts 6% of your final grade.The report should be word-processed in Times New Roman 12 pt font, with no less than SIX double- spaced and numbered pages (with 1” margins on all sides), excluding figures, tables, or illustrations. Fewer pages will result in points deduction. It should include the following parts:Your name and course information (No cover page! Otherwise, some points will be taken off).Title of your report.Abstract of the report (single spaced and in between the title and the Introduction)IntroductionDiscussion on the main points and issues in the two articles via comparison and contrast.Your reasons of choosing the two articles, and your comments on them.ConclusionReferences (correct citations in APA format for both articles, and other articles cited in the report,and not counted for the length requirement of the report).

1. Compare and contrast the difference in experience and outcomes between monolithic systems and their delivery and the practice of DevOps aligned with microservices architecture.· In terms of service delivery and deployment, monolithic is quite far behind as any change on one application means a change of the whole application or services, thus making the job tougher and a slow lifecycle process. While making use of DevOps for microservices, makes the work faster and the ability to check if each stage of the process is effectively monitored to ensure the organization’s project goal is met.2. Why do you believe there is such a rapid transition to using DevOps and microservices?· Since microservices have different teams to work on each service or application, they tend to be more focused on how to deploy each service without any error including the use of DevOps for microservices provides a range of benefits, like even each team, needs to work interdependently. Hence, through DevOps, effective communication and coordination among teams are practiced – that is why the transition for each service is smooth and well-coordinated. Moreover, the ability to know what is going on every step of the process provides an opportunity for a microservice to retest before full deployment.

Eileen Dover, CEO of Good For You! Bakery, decided to open outlet stores two years ago. In some ways, this was a good decision as some stores appear to be doing well. However, the overhead to operate brick-and-mortar stores is high. Ms. Dover wants to examine the data to see which, if any, stores are underperforming so that she can close underperforming outlets if necessary.Good For You! Bakery has data stored in two separate legacy tables: one table for sales data, and one table for cost data. When Ms. Dover created these tables early in the business, she associated each record with a unique store number. (In SAS®, each record is called an observation.)Now Ms. Dover wants you to pull all of this data into two data sets in SAS® , join the data sets, and answer the following questions:Which three stores netted the most profit in 2017? (Note that profit is equal to sales revenue minus costs.)Which three stores netted the least profit in 2017?What recommendation would you give the CEO regarding potential store closings? Include your rationale in detail.