In a short paper (1-2pages), please address each of the topics below with a 1-2 paragraph narrative for each section.

1. Course Content: Describe the most important aspects of this course for you with respect to the content that was covered or activities in which you participated. Discuss the relevance and value or the practicum assignment with respect to your knowledge acquisition.2. Application of Course Content: Describe how you applied what you learned in this course at your workplace. Discuss how this course may have impacted your specific job, techniques you used at work, or other relevant aspects that show how what you learned was linked to your job.3. Job Experience Integration: Describe how your work experiences were used in the classroom and attributed to your performance in the course. Discuss how integrating your work experiences in class activities assisted in understanding topics discussed within the course.

In a short paper (1-3 pages), please address each of the topics below with a 1-2 paragraph narrative for each section.

1. Course Content: Describe the most important aspects of this course for you with respect to the content that was covered or activities in which you participated. Discuss the relevance and value or the practicum assignment with respect to your knowledge acquisition.2. Application of Course Content: Describe how you applied what you learned in this course at your workplace. Discuss how this course may have impacted your specific job, techniques you used at work, or other relevant aspects that show how what you learned was linked to your job.3. Job Experience Integration: Describe how your work experiences were used in the classroom and attributed to your performance in the course. Discuss how integrating your work experiences in class activities assisted in understanding topics discussed within the course.

In a few short paragraphs, explain which cloud services you use (Google, Amazon, iCloud, Verizon, Microsoft One, Dropbox, etc) and what type of information you store (docs, photos, music, other files?). How much space do you have and what does this cost per month? 

This lab will be different. Your only task is to create a single page* document called an executive summary. An executive summary simply summarizes a report. Some would say it’s an executive summary because it allows executives to not have to read the entire report, but that would be pessimistic. 🙂 You could also consider it an executive summary because it summarizes the execution of a plan, and that’s a great way keep in mind what it should do. You need to create a single page report on why your hypothetical organization needs a security policy, and this executive summary should do two things:

1) Allow an executive that has to approve your plan to understand why it’s so important without having to understand all the things you learned over the course of the semester. You have to let them know enough to convince them without burying them in details. This is why Chapter 12 is helpful in framing the ‘why’.

2) You have to let them know how you’re going to do it with a broad outline of the structure of the Security Policy and who and how it applies to in the organization. These are the logistics behind the “who/what/where/when/how” elements all executives have to reconcile to the larger organizational issues they are responsible for.

The document should be one page with standard margins, single spaced, and well formatted. Your instructor reserves the right to determine any specific elements they wish you to follow in this assignment.

*Why is it a single page? Partly because you rarely have a lot of time to convince an executive of the technical importance of what you do before they feel overwhelmed by the ‘techie’ factor. The other part is because this is a skill you must develop; beyond your technical skills, some of the most important and valuable skills you have are ‘soft skills’ which are ironically ‘hard’ to find for employers and ‘hard’ to master for employees. Being able to succinctly explain technical issues to the people in charge without resorting to “trust me” is a very marketable skill

you have been introduced to various security tools (Network Discovery, Network Scanning, DLP, Firewalls, and HIDS).  You are to take one of the five identified categories of tools and identify two specific products from different vendors.  Based on two products, please research the differences and similarities between the two products.  You should also evaluate the implementation issues you may face with each product.  Based on your research, please create a PowerPoint or a similar presentation to explain your research and your findings of the tools.  The presentation should be comparative in nature as to highlight the similarities between the two products you researched.

The presentation must contain the following:

• Product Background
• Pros and Cons of each product
• Side by Side comparison
• Recommendation

 PowerPoint Requirements

1. Easy to follow and understand
2. Ratio of words to background (Essentially, not too many words on a slide.  Highlight the essentials)
3. Graphics – Charts, Graphs, Illustrations, etc.
4. Other – media – Audio, Video, etc.
5. Turnitin will be completed.