For the APT your group studied, were there identifiable harms to privacy or property? How are these harms linked to C-I-A? If not, what ethically significant harms could result from the scenario your group researched?

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The Cybersecurity Threat Landscape

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) have been thrust into the spotlight due to their advanced tactics, techniques, procedures, and tools. These APTs are resourced unlike other types of cyber threat actors.

Your chief technology officer (CTO) has formed teams to each develop a detailed analysis and presentation of a specific APT, which she will assign to the team.

Review the APT document and respond to these questions in a 2 to 3-page eassy format

: Ethics in Cybersecurity

o Do you think the vulnerability(ies) exploited by the APT constitute an ethical failure by the defender? Why or why not?

o For the APT your group studied, were there identifiable harms to privacy or property? How are these harms linked to C-I-A? If not, what ethically significant harms could result from the scenario your group researched?

o For the APT your group studied, when the targeted organization identified the breach, was the disclosure made with transparency? Do you feel the organization acted ethically? Why or why not?

How does modern technology make it easy to spread false information, photos, and videos?

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Modern technology

How does modern technology make it easy to spread false information, photos, and videos?

What challenges had to be overcome and what technologies and/or methodologies were used? In hindsight, what could have been done better and/or what future improvements can be made?

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Data Analysis

Research how data analysis impacts and influences streaming media platforms or users.

Find and explain a real world example of how data analysis impacts and influences streaming media platforms or users.
What challenges had to be overcome and what technologies and/or methodologies were used?
In hindsight, what could have been done better and/or what future improvements can be made?

How do decisions (made by qatar) related to the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar influence the perception of Qatar’s international community, measured through sentiment analysis of tweets?

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FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar

How do decisions (made by qatar) related to the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar influence the perception of Qatar’s international community, measured through sentiment analysis of tweets?

Write about a news story that you have seen or read that relates to science, engineering, and or medicine. Explain why you found it interesting.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Write about a news story that you have seen or read that relates to science, engineering, and or medicine. Explain why you found it interesting. (Max. 450 words)

News related to mechanical engineering or physics

Discuss your goals, values, and reasons for wanting to attend the Research Mentorship Program in UC Santa Barbara.

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Discussion Essay:

Discuss your goals, values, and reasons for wanting to attend the Research Mentorship Program in UC Santa Barbara. (500 words)

Provide an overview of the organization that will be delivered to senior management, defining the business goals and objectives and the size, layout, and structure of the organization.

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Disaster Recovery Plan

In recent years, organizations have witnessed the impact of effective and ineffective business continuity plans and disaster recovery plans. In today’s environment, with significant potential natural disasters, terrorist threats, and other man-made threats, it is critical that organizations develop effective business continuity plans and disaster recovery plans. Select an organization that you are familiar with, such as where you currently or previously have worked, contact a local organization, or search on the Internet for the needed detail of an organization that interests you. Prepare a disaster recovery plan policy for that organization.

Instructions
This assignment consists of two parts: a written paper and a PowerPoint presentation. You must submit both parts as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for. You can make all assumptions needed to complete this assignment.

Part 1: Written Paper
Write a 6–8 page paper in which you:

Provide an overview of the organization that will be delivered to senior management, defining the business goals and objectives and the size, layout, and structure of the organization.
Include a diagram of the organization’s network architecture and the proposed network architecture of an alternate computing facility in the event of a disaster (or the actual network architecture of the alternate computing facility if one already exists) using the graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open-source alternative such as Dia.
Include charts or diagrams created in MS Visio or Dia as an appendix of the infrastructure document. All references to these diagrams must be included in the body of the infrastructure document.
Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.

Develop the DRP policy, including:

  • Disaster declaration.
  • Assessment of security.
  • Potential disaster scenarios and methods of dealing with the disaster.
  • Disaster recovery procedures.

Develop an incident response team (IRT) charter that includes the following sections:

  • Executive summary.
  • Mission statement.
  • Incident declaration.
  • Organizational structure.
  • Roles and responsibilities.
  • Information flow and methods of communication.
  • Methods and services provided by the IRT.
  • Authority and reporting procedures.

Part 2: PowerPoint Presentation
Use Microsoft PowerPoint create a 12–14 content slide presentation that will be presented to the organization’s management, in which you:

Summarize the main elements of the DRP policy and IRT charter as specified.
Include introductory and concluding slides.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Information ‘Communication Technology? What are ICT’s roles, and how does it facilitate teleworking?

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The Evolution of Information and Communication Technology and its Impact on Telework in the Healthcare Sector

Research Questions:
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Information ‘Communication Technology?
2. What are ICT’s roles, and how does it facilitate teleworking?
3. How does information and communications technology (ICT) affect the adoption of teleworking in the Healthcare industry?

Identify and describe the key factors that are likely to be in contention between parents, teachers, administrators, and designers. Indicate and describe the relationships among all of the key factors that have been identified.

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ASSIGNMENT

As an educational technology expert, you have been invited to a meeting of a parents’ association at a school that has recently introduced many innovative technologies for students. A great deal of taxpayers’ money was used to completely renovate the school’s technology infrastructure, and then acquire and deploy many new technology-based learning materials and instructional systems. Among the new materials are a series of simulation-based game environments known popularly as the SIMs. These games are highly interactive and allow students to manipulate about a half dozen variables in order to achieve a desired outcome such as maximizing the number of adults who vote in an election. The new learning technologies have been in the school for two years but there have been no noticeable changes in graduate rates, dropout rates, attendance, or scores on state and national tests. The parents are concerned that their investment has been wasted. You have been asked to testify as to whether or not that is the case, and why or why not.

Learning Activities
1. Identify and describe the key factors that you would consider in framing your response to the problem situation stated above.
2. Identify and describe the key factors that are likely to be in contention between parents, teachers, administrators, and designers.
3. Indicate and describe the relationships among all of the key factors that have been identified.
4. Indicate what things should be targets of change in order to make the best of this problematic situation.
5. Create an annotated concept map that reflects the things indicated in response to the previous four tasks.
6. Reflect on your responses and your concept map, and then describe the assumptions you have made and what resources would be required to implement the solution you have in mind; present this response in the form of a logic model that includes a theory of change.

How should the new curriculum be designed in order to achieve both goals— (a) encouraging more students to pursue further studies in math, science, and engineering, and (b) ensuring that students will generally perform well on the existing standardized tests?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

A Representative Educational Technology Challenge
An innovative private school has decided to redo its high school mathematics and science curriculum in response to recent emphasis on the integrated nature of science and mathematics, and strong interest in having more graduates pursue college majors in science, mathematics, and engineering disciplines. However, to maintain the school’s accreditation, its students must perform acceptably on standardized tests that have been developed to test knowledge on traditional science and mathematics topics, rather than assess skills in putting that knowledge to practical use.

There are at least two fundamental issues to address:
1. How should the new curriculum be designed in order to achieve both goals— (a) encouraging more students to pursue further studies in math, science, and engineering, and (b) ensuring that students will generally perform well on the existing standardized tests?
2. What kinds of formative assessments will help students and teachers maintain steady progress toward both goals?

Learning Activities
1. Develop a general framework with guidelines and a notional high-level curriculum to respond to the first issue in the representative educational technology challenge.
2. Develop a formative assessment scheme along with a suggested schedule for assessments, guidelines (rubrics) for use of assessments by students and teachers, and one specific assessment and accompanying rubric (assessment guideline with expectations) to illustrate the scheme.