Information Systems

Pick a topic relevant to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning and write a 10-page paper.  The format of your paper will need to follow the following outline in APA format (include a title page, abstract page, content pages, and reference page): INTRODUCTION State the topic you are attempting to cover, State the issues involved, State why we should be concerned with resolving whatever issues are involved, State how answering the issues will help us, State the implications and consequences of dealing with or resolving the issues involved. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE (5 sources minimal, at least 3 needs to be peer-reviewed) Identify who has tried to answer the question before by doing the following: Summarize how each of the sources presents and deals with the subject, Explain how each source presents and deals with its findings or results, Explain the relevancy of each source to your topic, State what you learned from each of your sources, State in what way(s) each source contributes to answering your issues. DISCUSSION State your answer to your issue, State how and elaborate on how, explain how, illustrate how each of the sources you previously reviewed helps you answer your issue, State what questions about your topic you still have that your sources may not have answered. CONCLUSIONS: Indicate how each of the sources has contributed to your conclusions (and clearly, accurately, correctly document those sources within your text), State the implications of your conclusions, State what might be the possible consequences of your conclusions, State the significance these implications and consequences might have in the information technology/information security realm DOCUMENTATION: On a separate page, include a section labelled References which provides the full publication information for all the sources you used in your paper, You should have a MINIMUM of five (5) sources for your paper, at least 3 source needs to be peer-reviewed, Not meeting this minimum requirement of five (5) sources will lead to a lower evaluation of your paper for each missing source, Use APA format for documenting your sources.

Read the below content in URL https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/leadership-ethics/resources/the-ceo-of-starbucks-and-the-practice-of-ethical-leadership/ Please answer all the questions. Creating  Community:  Did Johnson use Starbucks’ shared values as the cornerstone of his decision making after the arrests?  Did his decision to close all  Starbucks stores for unconscious bias training and to create a new  “Third Space Policy” align with Starbucks’ mission and goals?  Did his handling of the incident promote positive relationships between employees and customers? Did it encourage a sense of connectedness and shared values? Encouraging  Ethical Conduct:  Did Johnson openly acknowledge that his decision was based on ethics and morality?  Did his apology and actions promote awareness of an ethical issue? Did it create a positive or negative difference in the communities Starbucks serves? Did it make a positive or negative difference for Starbucks employees and customers? Showing  Discipline in One’s Role:  Does Johnson explicitly accept responsibility for the incident and provide direction for a course correction? Does he identify ways to collaborate with others when necessary?  Does he show he understands what his role is in fixing this problem? Clarifying  Culture:  Did Johnson clarify his values and the company’s values in his apology and with his subsequent actions?  Did Johnson’s apology and follow-up actions uphold Starbucks’ mission and core values? Did he identify gaps between stated and actual values?  Did Johnson’s apology help Starbucks employees figure out if their personal values align with the company’s? Designing  Ethical Systems:  Did Johnson’s actions have an impact beyond Starbucks?   Did they send a precedent for other companies to follow? Did his apology create a conversation about unconscious bias in the workplace?  How do his apology and the subsequent follow-up actions compare to other companies and CEOs that have faced similar problems?

Please research physical security concepts and provide at least 500 words on how you would “protect” your vehicle, your home and your neighbourhood from a “terrorist attack”. 

 write a 3-page proposal detailing how you, as a senior IT manager, plan to create a culture of innovation in IT operations and integrate IT innovation into long-range strategic planning. The audience for this plan is the senior leadership. Your proposal should include recommendations for specific technology innovations and a rationale for how you expect these innovations to drive business success. 

Many business environments have both visible and invisible physical security controls. You see them at the post office, at the corner store, and in certain areas of your own computing environment. They are so pervasive that some people choose where they live based on their presence, as in gated access communities or secure apartment complexes. Alison is a security analyst for a major technology corporation that specializes in data management. This company includes an in house security staff (guards, administrators, and so on) that is capable of handling physical security breaches. Brad experienced an intrusion—into his personal vehicle in the company parking lot. He asks Alison whether she observed or recorded anyone breaking into and entering his vehicle, but this is a personal item and not a company possession, and she has no control or regulation over damage to employee assets. This is understandably unnerving for Brad, but he understands that she’s protecting the business and not his belongings. When or where would you think it would be necessary to implement security measures for both?

Topic 1 1.Journal Article Summary of your research:  Organizational behavior.Topic 2 Journal Article Summary your research:  Outsourcing.

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.

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.

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”. 

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.