Computer and Science 

Select one of the following businesses: a large bank, a government agency, or a hospital, and explain which systems you feel are mission-critical. Then explain how the loss of these systems would affect the organization.

With the rapid advancement and adoption of technology in all areas of business, it is critical for you as a future business leader to understand how unethical actions occur and what you can do to mitigate future risk.  Assume you have been hired as a consultant in the IT Department at Northcentral University. One of the University’s current goals is to minimize security threats and prevent breaches. To accomplish this, you have been asked to research last year’s “major hacks” to understand technology, information security measures, and issues in security management.  You must present your findings to the IT supervisor before the supervisor’s meeting with senior leadership. Prepare meeting notes for the IT supervisor that include the following:  1). Select one major incident to research regarding technological breaches. Identify the company that was affected and then describe this incident and why you selected it.  2). Explain the implications associated with this breach, specifically in terms of privacy laws and violations of the law.  3). Analyze the impact that these technological breaches have on consumer safety and well-being.  4). Recommend further actions to protect the privacy of clients.  Support your meeting notes with a minimum of three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.  Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages.  Your meeting notes should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. 

Introduction  The growth and explosion of the data have led to land scale differences across several industries.  Over the past two decades, there has been a huge increase in the amount of data being stored in databases as well as the number of database applications in business and the scientific domain. This explosion in the amount of electronically stored data was accelerated by the success of the relational model for storing data and the development and maturing of data retrieval and manipulation technologies. While the technology for storing the data developed fast to keep up with the demand, little stress was paid to developing software for analyzing the data until recently when companies realized that hidden within these masses of data was a resource that was being ignored. The huge amounts of stored data contain knowledge about a number of aspects of their business waiting to be harnessed and used for more effective business decision support.  Objective   For this project, you will write a 10-page APA formatted paper followed by a PowerPoint Presentation on how a particular organization that has experienced some type of Security or Privacy Challenges around Data. You will explain the following:  1) Why the challenges exist,  2) What is the general approach to solving the challenges,  3) What kind of data tools or databases do you plan to use, and  4) Finally what risk concerns were addressed by solving the Challenges. You should describe your problem, approach, dataset, data analysis, evaluation, discussion, references, and so on, insufficient details, and you need to show supporting evidence in tables and/or figures. You need to provide captions for all tables and figures.  Deliverables.  Group Project Paper  The paper should include the following sections each called out with Headers.  a. Introduction: Overview of the Paper.  b. Background: The section should be a Company Overview that includes the company name, the industry they are in, and a general overview of the organization.  c. Challenges: Discuss the challenges that the organization has with a particular security issue around data.  d. Solution: Describe the organization’s Data Security implementation and the benefits they realized from the implementation. What was the result of implementing Data Security? Did they meet their objectives or fall short?  e. Conclusion: Summarize the most important ideas from the paper and also make recommendations or how they might have achieved even greater success.  f. References: Please include a separate reference page with at least 5 references.  The paper must adhere to APA guidelines including Title and Reference pages. There should be at least five scholarly sources listed on the reference page. Each source should be cited in the body of the paper to give credit where due. Per APA, the paper should use a 12-point Time New Roman font, should be double spaced throughout, and the first sentence of each paragraph should be indented .5 inches. The body of the paper should be 10 pages in length. The Title and Reference pages do not count towards the page count requirements.  Your paper should include an abstract and a conclusion and a reference page with 5 or more references.