Information Systems

Per Fennelly (2017: 219-228), countermeasures concentrate extensively on deterring unauthorized users entering the organization’s security centre. It is worth noting that external and internal users are conspirators. External perpetrators often gain legitimate access to the organization’s network centre in the guise of technicians, professional consultants and irritated employees. You have been retained as the lead director of Adam Smith, Inc. Security Data Center: Provide an active three long-range plan to deter and deny external perpetrators access to the corporate centre? Provide an active three long-range plan to deter and deny internal perpetrators access to the corporate centre? Provide an active three long-range plan to deter and deny disgruntled employees access to the corporate centre? How can you identify such individuals or group of individuals? 

APA format is required – Your paper must be supported with appropriate APA-formatted citations that match full references at the end of the paper. Include headings in your paper for each question–DO NOT just restate the question as your heading–use unique headings identifying the content topic. Each section should be at least 2-3 paragraphs in length. Referring to chapters 2 and 3 of the Langer (2018) text specifically regarding IT organization and strategy, review and compare the two sources below and then address the following questions in your paper: Overby, S. (2017, October 27). Anatomy of an IT strategic plan in the era of digital disruption. Retrieved from https://www.cio.com/article/2437285/anatomy-of-an-it-strategic-plan.html Lindros, K. (2017, July 31). What is IT governance? A formal way to align IT & business strategy. Retrieved from https://www.cio.com/article/2438931/governanceit-governance-definition-and-solutions.html Identify and discuss 2 key issues identified in the articles regarding IT strategy in today’s business world, Discuss the need for alignment between business and IT strategy, Discuss the challenges in aligning business and IT strategy, Provide a concluding statement addressing your views on the value of IT strategic management and business alignment.

Scenario Due to the Always Fresh expansion, management wants additional network controls to protect its growing network. Tasks Consider the Windows servers and workstations in the domains of a typical IT infrastructure. Based on your understanding of network security controls, recommend at least four possible controls that will enhance the network’s security. Focus on ensuring that controls satisfy the defense-in-depth approach to security. Summarize your network security controls in a summary report to management. You must provide a rationale for your choices by explaining how each control makes the environment more secure.

compare and contrast two fundamental security design principles. Analyze how these principles impact an organization’s security posture. 

For this assignment, review the attached research article “Cyber Security and the Internet of Things: Vulnerabilities, Threats, Intruders and Attacks” and evaluate it in 2 pages or less (700 words), using your own words, by addressing the following, What did the authors investigate, and in general how did they do so?, Identify the hypothesis or question being tested, Summarize the overall article. Identify the conclusions of the authors: indicate whether or not you think the data support their conclusions/hypothesis, consider alternative explanations for the results. Provide any additional comments pertaining to other approaches to testing their hypothesis -logical follow-up studies to build on, confirm or refute the conclusions The article you use must be at least 3 pages long and be a primary or original research article: The relevance or importance of the study, The appropriateness of the experimental design. When you write your evaluation be brief and concise, this is not meant to be an essay but an objective evaluation that one can read very easily and quickly. Also, you should include a complete reference (title, authors, journal, issue, pages) and a photocopy of the article when you turn in your evaluation.

User acceptance testing, or UAT, is a round of testing in which the users who are expected to use the system after it goes live exercise the system. UAT differs from quality assurance, or QA, testing in a very important way: In UAT, real users attempt to use the system-in-development in a realistic manner—that is, the way they plan to use it after it goes live. In QA, technical people (who may or may not be familiar with how the system is actually going to be used in a business setting) exercise specific bits of functionality. Because of this difference in approach, UAT often exposes bugs that were not caught in QA. In addition, UAT allows users to feel confident that the system will work as they expect it to once it has been implemented, and to signal this confidence formally by signing off on the UAT. For this assignment, you will work with your team members to build a User Acceptance Test Plan for the team project (system) you defined collaboratively in Weeks 2 and 3. As part of this plan, you will create acceptance criteria for all user stories/scenarios associated with this project. In other words, you will collectively generate user stories/scenarios (i.e., brainstorm how users can reasonably be expected to use the system you defined) and then define each of the user stories/scenarios you list as a bug, a function not working as expected, a request for improvement, or a feature request. To complete this assignment: Read “Acceptance Criteria in Scrum: Explanation, Examples, and Template.” Review the following sections of Ch. 13, “Launch and Post-Launch: UAT, Security Testing, Performance Testing, Go Live, Rollback Criteria, and Support Mode,” in The Complete Software Project Manager: Mastering Technology from Planning to Launch and Beyond: “User Acceptance Testing: What It Is and When It Happens” “Controlling UAT and ‘We Talked About It in a Meeting Once,’ Part Deux” “Classifying UAT Feedback” “Bugs” “Not Working as Expected – The Trickiest Category” “Request for Improvement” “Feature Request” “Conflict Resolution and Final Launch List” As a group, complete the COS sheet portion of the linked UAT Plan Template. Note: Click theCOS tab that appears at the bottom of the spreadsheet to see the COS sheet. COS stands for Conditions of Satisfaction/Acceptance Criteria. Save your collaboratively completed UAT plan template using a unique file name that does not include the string “Template”. 

Select three of the following information systems: Radiology, Emergency, Surgical, Dental, Pharmacy. Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which you define and describe each information system, including a discussion of its purpose and use. Write a 1-page handout to accompany your presentation, and include speaker notes within the presentation.

Explain ethical Issues That May Arise In Information Management

For this assignment, you will write a 3-page intermediate strategic IS plan for Reynolds Tool & Die. You will outline an IT strategy to support the upcoming merger and acquisition planned by the company. Your plan must address timelines, systems integration, and change management.

Per Fennelly (2017: 219-228), countermeasures concentrate extensively on deterring unauthorized users entering the organization’s security centre. It is worth noting that external and internal users are conspirators. External perpetrators often gain legitimate access to the organization’s network centre in the guise of technicians, professional consultants and irritated employees. You have been retained as the lead director of Adam Smith, Inc. Security Data Center: Provide an active three long-range plan to deter and deny external perpetrators access to the corporate centre? Provide an active three long-range plan to deter and deny internal perpetrators access to the corporate centre? Provide an active three long-range plan to deter and deny disgruntled employees access to the corporate centre? How can you identify such individuals or group of individuals?