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Assignment 3: Incident Response (IR) Strategic Decisions

Suppose that you have been alerted of a potential incident involving a suspected worm spreading via buffer overflow techniques, compromising Microsoft IIS Web servers. As the IR Team leader, it is your responsibility to determine the next steps.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

  1. Explain in detail the initial steps that would need to be made by you and the IR team in order to respond to this potential incident.
  2. Construct a process-flow diagram that illustrates the process of determining the incident containment strategy that would be used in this scenario, and identify which containment strategy would be appropriate in this case, through the use of graphical tools in Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
  3. Construct a process flow diagram to illustrate the process(es) for determining if / when notification of the incident should be relayed to upper management, and explain how those communications should be structured and relayed through the use of graphical tools in Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
  4. Detail the incident recovery processes for the resolution of this incident.
  5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
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Disaster Recovery (DR)

Read the article titled “9/11: Top lessons learned for disaster recovery,” from Computerworld.com, located at http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219867/9_11_Top_lessons_learned_for_disaster_recovery , and consider the effects the attacks of September 11, 2001, have had on technology recovery efforts.
Write a two to four (2-4) page paper in which you:

  1. Explain how the attacks affected risk management in organizations and have prompted an increased justification for recovery-based objectives, initiatives, and expenditures.
  2. Analyze the use of social media and other current methods of communication for emergency notifications during an incident or disaster situation.
  3. Determine whether or not organizations need to consider distanced geographic locations when preparing for backup operations / data centers, and determine the effects that recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) have on these decisions.
  4. Evaluate the use of cloud services as tools for recovery operations within an organization, and explain how they could increase or decrease the effectiveness of recovery operations.
  5. Determine whether or not cloud services are ideal recovery options for organizations regardless of their size. Provide a rationale to support the answer.
  6. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
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summary writing

Consider a scenario where the contingency planning management team (CPMT) of your organization has designated you as the disaster recovery team leader, and the preparation and planning of this component of the security program is now under your purview with a team of 11 employees including yourself.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

  1. Detail the DR team roles, responsibilities, and sub teams that would be implemented, and construct an organizational chart for the team through the use of graphical tools in Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
  2. Describe the proper procedures and policies that would be implemented specific to the DR team personnel as well as special equipment that would be required.
  3. Draft an executive summary to the DR plan and explain the purpose of the plan and high-level specifics for upper management.
  4. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
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Designing Compliance within the LAN-to-WAN Domain

Note: Review the page requirements and formatting instructions for this assignment closely. Graphically depicted solutions, as well as the standardized formatting requirements, do NOT count toward the overall page length.
Imagine you are an Information Systems Security Officer for a medium-sized financial services firm that has operations in four (4) states (Virginia, Florida, Arizona, and California). Due to the highly sensitive data created, stored, and transported by your organization, the CIO is concerned with implementing proper security controls for the LAN-to-WAN domain. Specifically, the CIO is concerned with the following areas:

  • Protecting data privacy across the WAN
  • Filtering undesirable network traffic from the Internet
  • Filtering the traffic to the Internet that does not adhere to the organizational acceptable use policy (AUP) for the Web
  • Having a zone that allows access for anonymous users but aggressively controls information exchange with internal resources
  • Having an area designed to trap attackers in order to monitor attacker activities
  • Allowing a means to monitor network traffic in real time as a means to identify and block unusual activity
  • Hiding internal IP addresses
  • Allowing operating system and application patch management

The CIO has tasked you with proposing a series of hardware and software controls designed to provide security for the LAN-to-WAN domain. The CIO anticipates receiving both a written report and diagram(s) to support your recommendations.
Write a three to five page paper in which you:

  1. Use MS Visio or an open source equivalent to graphically depict a solution for the provided scenario that will:
    1. filter undesirable network traffic from the Internet
    2. filter Web traffic to the Internet that does not adhere to the organizational AUP for the Web
    3. allow for a zone for anonymous users but aggressively controls information exchange with internal resources
    4. allow for an area designed to trap attackers in order to monitor attacker activities
    5. offer a means to monitor network traffic in real time as a means to identify and block unusual activity
    6. hide internal IP addresses
  2. Identify the fundamentals of public key infrastructure (PKI).
  3. Describe the manner in which your solution will protect the privacy of data transmitted across the WAN.
  4. Analyze the requirements necessary to allow for proper operating system and application patch management and describe a solution that would be effective.
  5. Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
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Business Assignment

Carefullу read the following articles:
1. Kolk, A. (2016), The social responsibilitу of international business: From ethics and the environment to CSR and sustainable development, Journal of World Business, 51(1), January: 23–34 (Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951615000632).
2. EurekAlert. (2016), Tough social issues provide a challenge for companies and researchers (Available at: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/e-tsi022216.php).
3. As-Saber, S. (2014). One year on from Rana Plaza collapse, work still to be done, The Conversation, 24 April 2014 (Available at: https://theconversation.com/one-year-on-from-rana-plaza-collapse-work-still-to-be-done-24710).
4. Hammond, L. (2015). Will Green Growth Bolster Bangladesh Garment Exports? (Available at: https://www.just-style.com/analysis/will-green-growth-bolster-bangladesh-garment-exports_id126674.aspx).
Now, based on these readings, respond to the following questions and justify your answers:
1. Should the concept of ‘what matters most’ with respect to human ‘well-being’ become an important consideration for business entities operating globally (refer to Article 1)? Please justify your response.
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2. People around the world are now putting a lot of pressure on companies to “do the right thing”. (Articles 1 and 2). In this context, please explain the responses from major readymade garment (RMG) retailers to the “Rana Plaza” disaster in Bangladesh (Refer to Articles 3 and 4). Have they done the “right thing” so far?
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3. In the context of the RMG industry in Bangladesh, do you consider “green factories” a new business model for growth (Article 4)? Please justify your answer.
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4. Will sustainable and ethical RMG production in Bangladesh will help major retailers to become more sustainably and ethically responsible as well? Please explain.
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In addition to your own readings, the following articles may provide you with some ideas and thoughts relevant to the assignment preparation:
“Time to get the economics of environment right”
(Available at https://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/time-to-get-the-economics-of-environment-right-20150717-giejry.html);
World’s top 3 green and 7 out of Top 10 factories are now in Bangladesh (Available at https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/worlds-top-3-green-and-7-out-of-top-10-factories-are-now-in-bangladesh.465933/).
You will be required to read the recommended articles listed above, respond to all questions based on the articles and justify your answers.
For each question, it is important to bring in competing ideas before justifying your response in order to demonstrate your understanding of concepts relevant to the question.
Use wide research to gather evidence for your perspective. You must demonstrate your ability to understand and incorporate ideas from academic (i.e., peer-reviewed) journals and other information sources, and show consistent argumentation throughout (not a mere description). Use relevant theories and examples in order to substantiate your arguments.
Distribution of Length
The assignment
Response to each question should be between 700 and 1000 words;
Mandatory Referencing Requirements
It is important that the assignment reflects the student’s own understanding of relevant literature. An effective integration of these materials to the discussion is also vital that could primarily be achieved through the use of appropriate referencing.
Accordingly, at least 6(six) academic references MUST be cited along with other non-academic references such as articles from periodicals, newspapers and web pages.
Structure, and Formatting
The students are expected to maintain a high standard in presenting their works.
The paper must be well-structured and well-argued.
The clarity of expressions together with the appropriate use of grammar, spelling and punctuations are important to maintain.
Referencing format must strictly be adhered to (Harvard System).
As mentioned above, an appropriate structure must be maintained. An introduction as well as a conclusion is needed. Headings and sub-headings could be used.
Use appropriate pagination. 12 point font in Times New Roman should be used throughout. Double-spacing with appropriate margins on each side (at least 2 cm) need to be maintained.
use some graphs to illustrate.
Important Note
only Answer last 2 questions 3&4
3. In the context of the RMG industry in Bangladesh, do you consider “green factories” a new business model for growth (Article 4)? Please justify your answer.
4. Will sustainable and ethical RMG production in Bangladesh will help major retailers to become more sustainably and ethically responsible as well? Please explain.

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Homicide Investigation Review

-Word limit is 2000 words +/- 10%
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This assessment requires students to write up a review of the homicide investigation process involved in the OJ Simpson Case.
All reviews must address the following key points:
1. Identify the main elements of the investigative process involved in the case.
2. Discuss major flaws, weaknesses or failures that were identified in the police investigative processes which affected the outcome of the case.
3. Discuss critical suggestions for ways in which these investigative failures could have been overcome, and how they could be prevented in the future homicide investigations.
4. Discuss the role of the media in influencing the outcome of the case.
Sources for your essay may include media articles, official reports, court transcripts, scholarly books and articles and/or
relevant statistical analyses.
• To help students get started, an example for each case is provided at the end of this document (these are samples only – you are not required to use them – but they are the kind
of authoritative scholarly reference you should be looking for).
• Each of these cases has been through a criminal trial (and often appeal) process, during which problems with the investigative procedures (police and/or prosecution) have been
widely debated.
• The assessment is in essay form, so your work should have a clear introduction, a body and a conclusion summarising your argument. Headings are allowed in this instance. It is suggested that students set out their work with a brief introductory paragraph, 4 subsections matching the 4 aspects of the set task, and then a final concluding paragraph.
• Your task is simply to develop a narrative based on the four (4) key criteria for this assessment:
1) summarise the crucial elements of the investigative process as relevant to the subsequent trial/appeal proceedings;
2) identify and clearly explain the major errors/flaws/weaknesses in these procedures;
3) come up with well framed and supported recommendations for how such errors might have been avoided (or might be avoided in the future); and
4) discuss how you think the media may have influenced the outcome of the case.
• The investigation review should demonstrate a clear and logical analysis of the particular case, supported by relevant research to explain the analysis and proposed solutions.
• The essay offers you the opportunity to critically analyse a major homicide investigation and to show your understanding of the key issues. Thus, it is expected that your research will be a combination of case-specific materials and scholarly/theoretical sources relevant to homicide offences and investigations more generally.
• Please note that your task is not to decide whether a person is guilty or innocent; nor is it to simply describe the crime and the investigation/court process in the manner of a media article. Your job is to critique the investigation in a formal, thoughtful, scholarly manner and to make clear-eyed recommendations, which are not to be confused with emotive statements about the guilt or innocence of anyone involved. Your inquiry has the luxury of hindsight, so try to use language that acknowledges that.
• Students should take care to meet the criteria for presentation as set out in the Criteria Sheet: professional structure; technical accuracy; consistency of referencing. Abstracts are not required.
• All submissions must be in 12pt font double spaced; leave adequate (3cm) margins for marker comments to be provided.
• Referencing for court cases is as in the following examples:
(In-text)
R v. Doe (2010) OR
(R v. Doe, 2010)
(Reference list)
R v. Doe (2010) No 2 NSWSC 50
• Submissions should feature APA in-text referencing where necessary and each submission requires a reference list. Students should not be using dubious/unverifiable internet sources such as Wikipedia, Murderpedia, Crime Library, Crime Museum, etc. In general, on-line sources (other than official scholarly journals and widely known media publications) should
be assessed critically by students before use to establish their appropriateness.
• Finally, students should NEVER refer to victims, offenders, etc. only by their first (given) names. This is a piece of formal academic writing, and as such the people involved should
be referred to either by their full name (or surname only) or else as victim, offender, witness, and so forth.
Sample sources:
Brown, W., Duane, J. & Benson, P. (1997). Media coverage and public opinion of the O. J. Simpson trial: Implications for the criminal justice system. Communication Law & Policy,
2(2), 261-287.

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Ethics

What is the basis of Hume’s skepticism about practical reason, and is that skepticism defensible?
Footnotes and quotations count towards word count.
Bibliography and title excluded from word count.
Please only incorporate the following readings:
Core reading
D. Hume, Treatise of Human Nature esp Book 2, Part 3, Section 3 ‘Of the influencing motives of the will’; Book 3, Part 1 ‘Of virtue and vice in general’.
C. Korsgaard, ‘Scepticism about practical reason’ in Creating the Kingdom of Ends
Additional reading
D. Gauthier, Morals by Agreement
T. Nagel, The Possibility of Altruism
H. Sidgwick The Methods of Ethics, Concluding Chapter ‘The Relations of the methods’
T. Pink ‘Agents, objects and their powers in Suarez and Hobbes’
(with regards to T. Pink, please agree with his thesis)

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Microbiology – What steps in protein synthesis are inhibited by each drug

Microbiology Assignment

assignment
question:
For each of the following bacteria, explain why is is often resistant to disinfectant
a)Mycobacteriim
b)Pseudomonas
c)Bacillus
question number one chapter 8
Ciprofloxacin erythromycin, and acyclovir are used to treat microbial infections, Ciprofloxacin inhibits DNA gyrase. Erythromycin binds in front of the A site on the 50S subunit of a ribosome Acyclovir is a guanine analog.
a) What steps in protein synthesis are inhibited by each drug?
b) Which drug is more effective against bacteria?why?
c) Which drugs will have effects on the host’s cells?why
d) Use the index to identify the disease for which acyclovir is primarily used . Why is it more effective than erythromycin for treating this diseaese

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Business Essay

Word limit: 1500 words
Formatting: 1.5 line spacing; 12 point font; Times New Roman or Arial
Task: Individual
TASK INFORMATION
You need to choose a business sector to focus on, and address how business
ethics is managed within that sector (e.g. Financial; Mining; Agriculture; Retail;
Service; Education; Tourism etc.).
The list of sections below provides the issues that you need to consider:
(1) Discuss major challenges, relating to business ethics, facing the
sector. You are expected to focus briefly on the following issues:
a. ethical issues facing the sector
b. sustainability focus of the sector
c. major stakeholders in the sector
(2) Explain what factors are driving the sector to manage the business
ethics more effectively.
(3) Elaborate how managing business ethics has helped the sector.
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Assignment 1 Template
Cover Page
Ensure a cover page is attached to the front of your report, showing unit
name, your name, date of submission, and your student ID number.
Abstract (approx. 100 words; not included in word count)
Type in a short abstract that briefly describes the purpose of the project,
and what the main findings are. (You may want to do the abstract once the
assignment is done.)
Introduction (approx. 150 words)
This section must cover two main things
(a) a brief introduction and background to the study
(b) the objectives of the study
For the introduction and background, you must provide a brief introduction
to the reader about the assignment, its relevance and importance etc.
Objectives: You need to clearly state the key objectives (2-3) of the
assignment.
Analysis of Sector (approx. 1200 words)
Address the 3 sections representing the issues that you need to consider.
Conclusion (approx. 150 words)
Write a short concluding comment which reminds the reader what the main
purpose of the research was, how you went about addressing the
objectives of the study, what data you used and the main findings were.
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Also write a short paragraph on the main limitations of the study…i.e. what
is/are the main weaknesses of the study which you would like to bring to the
attention of the readers.
References
Include a list of relevant references in alphabetical order, using Harvard
style.
Appendix (optional)
Additional Information
Submission of Report
Students are required to submit only an electronic copy of their report (in
MS Word) in the area provided on Cloud Deakin by 23h59 on the due date.
Supporting diagrams
Use tables and diagrams where appropriate. All tables and diagrams must
be numbered, labeled and briefly explained in the text of your paper e.g.
“Table 2 shows the GDP growth of the main economies ….”
Font
Use a 12 point font. (Times New Roman or Arial). The report should be 1.5
line spaced with an extra line space between each paragraph. Please use
page numbers and indicate at the end of your report the word count.
Word Count
The word limit is 1500 and will be strictly adhered to. A 10% penalty (from
the available marks) will apply for deviating from this word limit. The
following sections are NOT included in the word count:
Cover Page; Abstract; References; Appendices.