200 words due 09/26 11:59 pm est

Beginning on  May 13, 2017 hackers successfully breached Equifax’s customer dispute portal. The hackers used an Apache Struts vulnerability, a months-old issue that Equifax knew about but failed to patch, and gained access to login credentials for three servers.  Those login credentials in turn allowed the hackers to access another 48 servers containing personal information. The hackers spent 76 days within the Equifax network before they were detected. Equifax didn’t discover the attack until July 29, and cut off the hackers’ access on July 30. The breach exposed the personally identifiable information of over 147 million Americans.  This information included social security  numbers, names, addresses,  birthdates, credit card numbers and driver’s license numbers. Personally identifiable information of British and Canadian citizens was also compromised.In your initial post, please answer both of the following questions:

1. Choose a federal law (Equifax is a credit reporting agency and subject to special laws) or a  US state data breach law or the EU GDPR (check our reading materials and PowerPoint slides, the links below, and ncsl.org for descriptions of applicable law) and explain how it applies or has already been applied to Equifax for its data security breach.  You use the FTC settlement page as a source for your discussion or include a discussion of any private litigation. Alternatively, since 4 members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army have recently been indicted, you may choose to discuss whether this indictment represents an example of state-sponsored cyber warfare. Remember to distinguish in your own mind the difference between Equifax’s liability for the security/data breach and the hackers’ liability for carrying out the breach.
2. Using your best judgment, what would you recommend to create and maintain an infrastructure for Equifax that would most robustly and effectively protect against future breaches and the liabilities resulting from those breaches?  Include any specifics you may be familiar with such as hardware and software recommendations, compliance with specific US and  international laws, industry best practices, and any appropriate third-party vendor solutions.

 The first iPhone was revealed at the Mac World conference in early January 2007, and later released in June of that year. Initially, third-party native applications were not allowed. Apple products have created a unique brand value within society.  Their products do not support third party applications, thus providing additional layers of security from social engineering and malware attacks.

• How has the use of core ideas such as location and orientation-aware pushed iPhone beyond its web browser and tightly integrated web functionalities?
• Why are Plists (property lists) the easiest way to store information on Macs?
• Discuss the benefits of using Xcode for developing iOS apps.

After completing this week’s labs, reflect on what you learned and respond to the following questions in 1 to 2 pages:

• Compare and contrast the vulnerability scanning tools you used in the labs. Are there scenarios in which a scanning tool would be advantageous to use over others?
• When assessing the security risks of a network, a step that is important but sometimes overlooked is the gathering of organizational data. How can knowledge of organizational data give you leverage over network vulnerabilities? Name two types of organizational data and explain how a hacker might be able to exploit them.

Cite sources to support your assignment. 

Format your citations according to APA guidelines. 

Submit the reflection.

The heart of this course is a project, in which you will design, implement, and evaluate a user interface. User interface design is an iterative process, so you will build your UI not just once, but three times, as successively higher-fidelity and more complete prototypes. 

This project is the first step in the user interface design process.  By the end of Project 2 you will have completed the user research, created user personas, developed wireframes. In Project 3, you will develop a working prototype. In Project 4, you will revisit heuristic analysis and usability testing on the user interface and experience you designed.

Focus for this project is on user research and wireframes – understanding who the users are, what are they trying to accomplish, how can your interface design support and delight them. We review several approaches to structuring, performing, and documenting user research, including a special focus on personas of different types and on use cases. This project provides a walk-through planning and analysis stages for UX/UI projects: why the planning matters and methods that can be used.

You may choose to design a user interface for any industry. The type of user interface you create is also your choice (i.e. SmartTV, AR, VR, smartphone, app, website). If you need some ideas to get you started, browse these concepts:

Discussion: 

What did you learn about risk when managing your project?

Subject: Information Technology Project Management

Chapter 11 – Project Risk Management 

Project:

Plan and build digital system to capture and track covid vaccinations. This App can share its data with different state and each state has unique ID system. Incorporate that into the various state Id systems. This app will be completely digitalized and avoid manipulation or duplication or forging etc possible with paper Vaccination records.