Using the Internet, search for examples of high-profile network security breaches. You can use the regular press, technology- or security-specific sources, or generic white papers from security firms or professional associations. Describe three of these incidents in detail.

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Assignment

You are an experienced employee of the DigiFirm Investigation Company. Chris, your team leader, said the company has a new potential client. Acme e-Goods is a well-known outfit that markets its products over the Internet. The company has a large-scale network that houses a great amount of sensitive customer information they want to protect.

Acme e-Goods is seeking proposals from private forensics firms. The company is considering keeping a firm on retainer that could immediately respond to any network security incidents.

Chris has a number of people involved in preparing DigiFirm’s proposal and wants you to get involved. He wants you to find examples of actual high-profile network security breaches that have occurred so DigiFirm can show Acme e-Goods just how common network security breaches are becoming, and that Acme is not immune.

For this assignment, provide the following deliverables:

Using the Internet, search for examples of high-profile network security breaches. You can use the regular press, technology- or security-specific sources, or generic white papers from security firms or professional associations. Describe three (3) of these incidents in detail. Be sure to include (a) the organization that was attacked, (b) the nature of the breach, (c) the impact of the incident, and (d) the resolution (if any). Present each incident as a separate, numbered deliverable (3 total).

Analyze an essay from one of our modules (Andrews, Anyon, Kozol, Poe, Hooks, Paglia, Crenshaw, Nussbaum, Freud, etc) in a 3-5 page essay with proper MLA formatting and citation.

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Discussion  Essay

Analyze an essay from one of our modules (Andrews, Anyon, Kozol, Poe, Hooks, Paglia, Crenshaw, Nussbaum, Freud, etc) in a 3-5 page essay with proper MLA formatting and citation.

See model essay:

You may use any of the essays we’ve read in this course to analyze for this assignment or The Cask of Amontillado: from Rereading America “George Orwell…Meet Mark Zuckerberg” by Lori Andrews; “Still Separate, Still Unequal” by Jonathan Kozol; “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by Jean Anyon; “The Death of an Adjunct” by Adam Harris in The Atlantic;

 

Are the results for Average time the same for each execution to the same target? Why or why not? Are the number of hops the same for each execution to the same target? Why or why not?

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RP: ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL

In this first exercise, we will use the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to determine the Media Access Control (MAC) address of machines on our local network. The example code provides a Python function for broadcasting an ARP request message and printing any replies that are received. You must determine what to pass as the argument to the function. The argument is an IP address and subnet in CIDR format. (We discussed this format in class, but it’s a shorthand for designating the IP address and subnet — an IP address of 1.2.3.4 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 is designated as 1.2.3.4/24, meaning the IP address with the leftmost 24 bits as a subnet mask.) As an example, if we have an IP address of 192.168.1.45 with a subnet mask of 255.255.252.0 then our CIDR is 182.168.1.45/30.

Call the function with the correct CIDR designation to cause the function to send exactly eight ARP requests and capture the reply.

MORE FUN WITH ICMP

Now we will look at ICMP. Note that we looked at this in a previous lab but didn’t really understand its use. ICMP is useful for routing statistics and routers use it extensively for providing error and status results when trying to send IP packets. The following code uses a Python library called “icmplib”. (Install it if you need to.)

Use this function (“findRoute”) to display statistics that convey how IP packets must be routed to get to a specified target. First, call the function with your local machine’s IP address. Then, call the function with a destination or target of a remote machine. Call the function at least three times for each target. In this markdown section, answer the following questions:

 

  1. Are the results for Average time the same for each execution to the same target? Why or why not?
  2. Are the number of hops the same for each execution to the same target? Why or why not?

UDP: USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL

UDP is a connectionless protocol built on IP. It has less overhead than TCP but only because it doesn’t try to fix any transmission errors. Here is sample Python code that creates a server for UDP packets and a client. Based on this code:

Do these steps:

  1. Modify the client to send a message of your choice three different times. Please make the message unique each time. Capture the output for each execution of the client.
  2. Modify the client and change the PORT. Execute the client and capture the output. Explain the result.

 

Identify the topic. Why is this topic important in social work practice? What are the key themes this paper will address?

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Native American Youth & Suicide

6 pages not including cover and references

1. Introduction :
a. Identify the topic.
b. Why is this topic important in social work practice?
c. What are the key themes this paper will address?

2. Body
a. Discuss the evidence from the literature about this topic.
b. What are the various perspectives on this topic?

3. Conclusion
a. Restate the issues and key points addressed in the paper.
b. Emphasize the implications for social work.
c. Possibilities for the future and suggestions for change.

Write a six-page research paper focusing on financial or economic issues in the sport or recreation industry. Read, analyze, and summarize five peer-reviewed research articles addressing the relevant topic of choice.

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Research paper

Students will write a six-page (minimum) research paper focusing on financial or economic issues in the sport or recreation industry. Students will read, analyze, and summarize five peer-reviewed research articles addressing the relevant topic of choice. Students should use specific examples from society to support the research articles and textbook information. There will be two in-class workshops that will focus on tips for writing the paper. The first workshop will focus on strategies for finding sources and writing tools as well. The second in-class workshop will involve a peer- review day for the rough draft of your research paper.

o Points breakdown:

  • 15 points: rough draft, peer review day
  • 5 points: bringing references to peer review day
  • 60 points: final paper

o Possible Topic Ideas:

  • The Recession’s Impact of Sport Finance
  •  Costs in Professional Sports
  •  Costs in Collegiate Sports
  •  Conference Realignment: Revenue and Media Rights
  •  Cost of Paying Student Athletes
  •  Universities Cutting/Adding Sports- Impact on Budget
  •  Differences Between Division’s-Budgets, Revenue Generation Factors,
  •  Alcohol Sales at University Sporting Events
  •  Economic Impact of Sports Stadiums: Positive or Negative Economic Generators

Textbook if you need it is

Title: Sport Finance, 4th Edition Author: Fried, DeSchriver, Mondello
ISBN: 9781492559733
Publisher: Human Kinetics

Fit a random forest and boosted decision tree model on the training set with default parameters, and estimate the time it required to fit each of the models. Which model required less time to train? Why do you think that is?

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6 Boosted Decision Trees and Random Forest (Henry)

In this assignment, you are going to fit and tune random forest and boosted decision trees to predict whether a given passenger survived the sinking of the Titanic based on the variables provided in the data set. You may use sklearn and grid search.

6.1 First, download the Titanic.csv file from Sakai, and drop the columns that have “na” values from the data set. Convert the gender variable into a binary variable with 0 representing male, and 1 representing female. Then split 80% of the data into train and 20% of the data into test set.

6.2 Fit a random forest and boosted decision tree model on the training set with default parameters, and estimate the time it required to fit each of the models. Which model required less time to train? Why do you think that is? (Hint: look at the default values of the parameters.)

6.3 Choose a range of parameter values for each of the algorithms (tell us what parameters you played with), and tune on the training set over 5 folds. Then, draw the ROC and provide the AUC for each of the tuned models on the whole training set (in one figure) and test set (in another figure). Comment on the similarities/di↵erences between the two models (if any).

 

Be familiar with Python and know how to calculate “pairs completeness”, “pairs quality” , “Precision” and “recall”, etc.

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Graphs

You should familiar with Python and know how to calculate “pairs completeness”, “pairs quality” , “Precision” and “recall”, etc.

At last, give CSV file which contains the linked and classified matching record pairs.

 

Select two very different countries and research their cultural factors which affect consumer behavior and market strategy.

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Writing 1

In chapter two we learned about cultural variations. Select two very different countries and research their cultural factors which affect consumer behavior and market strategy. You are not to use the USA as one of the counties. We are looking to learn about two countries that are culturally different from us and each other.

This is to be a minimum 3 pages paper. APA formatted. You do not need an abstract page. Think introduction, body, and conclusion. Charts and such are fine, but they do not count as part of the minimum 3 pages. (Reference and cover page are not part of this minimum page count.) This is a great resource https://hi.hofstede-insights.com/national-culture
You will need to have a minimum of three resources on your reference page.

Why you bought that product over another? What advantages or disadvantages resulted from purchasing that product over others?

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Writing 2

The purpose of the assignment is to get you to think about the psychology of consumer behavior by applying it to your own life. The theories and concepts that you apply are basically up to your own perception of your behavior. However, these must be theories grounded in the text and classroom discussion. The journal will have three goals: understanding the influences behind your purchases, understanding the consequences of your purchases, and giving you a chance to reassess and change your purchase patterns.

The method is as follows:

For a 2 week period, you must keep a daily diary of the products you purchase. This is simply a listing of the products, when, and where you made the purchase. Online and offline. This includes something as simple as that morning coffee or a candy bar.

At the end of the 2 weeks look for 3 products you seem to “consume” most regularly or consistently.

Why you bought that product over another (why did you buy Dunkin Donuts coffee over Starbuck’s or why did you get Tacos instead of burgers?)
What advantages or disadvantages resulted from purchasing that product over others?

Your satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the purchase
Your intent to continue that purchase (or note if you decided to change your purchase pattern & why)

At the end of the 2 weeks, choose 3 key products and consider the one major psychological factor or process for each separate product (e.g. peer pressure, learning, subliminal messages etc.) that contributed most to your consumption pattern (i.e. one different process for each of the 3 products).

How did this exercise make you feel? Did this help you to better focus on your own goals and dreams? How does it tie in to your personal priorities? Are you actually taking steps to create the kind of life that you wish to accomplish by the age of 80?

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 80th birthday

Instructions:

Imagine it is your 80th birthday. The party is being held at your home. Your closest family and friends are there. Each gives a speech describing the greatest accomplishments of your life. Memories, awards, and other artifacts highlighting your accomplishments.

Write a personal paragraph addressing the following questions:

  • What does your home look like?
  • Who is in attendance?
  • What would you like people to say about you?
  • What will you have achieved by the time you are 80 years old?
  • Conclude your paragraph with the steps you can take in the next few weeks or months towards successfully achieving the milestones that you would like described at your 80th birthday.

Then share your thoughts on the following in a separate paragraph:

  • How did this exercise make you feel?
  • Did this help you to better focus on your own goals and dreams?
  • How does it tie in to your personal priorities?
  • Are you actually taking steps to create the kind of life that you wish to accomplish by the age of 80?