Information Systems

Microsoft Windows implements access controls by allowing organizations to define users, groups, and object DACLs that support their environment. Organizations define the rules, and Windows enables those rules to be enforced. Answer the following question(s): Do you think access controls are implemented differently in a government agency versus a typical information technology company? Why or why not? Do you think access controls differ among private industries, such as retail, banking, and manufacturing? Why or why not?

Complete a Physical Security Assessment (internal and external) of your place of work or living area.  If you use your work area make sure you inform the Security Manager to get permission as to what you are doing. If you live in a gated community inform the security guard of your activities. Refer to your text on the importance of Lighting and Access Control and be sure to cover the salient issues discussed in the text.

Required reading:- “What Blockchain Could Mean for Marketing” https://hbr.org/2018/05/what-blockchain-could-mean-for-marketing. A Clearer Picture http://c2claritymedia.com/wp-content/uploads/accountability-transparency-in-media-today.pdf. Competitive Info: Digital Ad Fraud To Hit $22B By 2020 http://www.insideradio.com/free/competitive-info-digital-ad-fraud-to-hit-b-by/article_6d3c6608-a815-11e7-9e40-bbd2e6133207.html. Are You Ready to Meet Customer Expectations in 2018? http://fieldservicenews.com/ready-meet-customer-expectations-2018/ Suggested Text (s): Blockchain Loyalty: Disrupting Loyalty and Reinventing Marketing Using Cryptocurrencies. Paperback – July 7, 2018 – ISBN 978-0-6483535-2-2 Revealing the Invisible: How Our Hidden Behaviors Are Becoming the Most Valuable Commodity of the 21st Century Paperback – June 5, 2018 – ISBN 978-1-68261-619-2

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”. 

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.

Research and explain the term “Data Mining Query Language” and how is it used in Data Mining. References: At least one peer-reviewed, scholarly journal references. 

Please run a Google search of the term, “United States Supreme Court Carpenter v. United States 2018.” Please write an essay of not less than 500 words, summarizing the court’s decision. 

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.

Asset Tracking System

Device and Technology Implementation at the Corporation