The reading this week discusses strategy and how ERM can be integrated with an organization’s overall strategy. Prepare a research paper on some of the various issues, protocols, methods, frameworks you found and discuss how – if possible – organizations can use ERM as strategy. It is perfectly acceptable if you deem ERM cannot be used as strategy, just back up your claim with scholarly research and justifications.Your paper should meet these requirements: 

• Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Week 10 Assignment – Managing an IT Infrastructure Audit

Overview

This assignment consists of four distinct elements: an internal IT audit policy, a management plan, a project plan, and a disaster recovery plan. You must submit all four sections as separate files. Name each file as indicated in the instructions below.Make any assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment, and base your work on the following scenario:

You are an information security manager for a large national retailer and are directly responsible for the planning and oversight of IT audits. At the request of the board of directors, the CEO has tasked you with developing a plan for conducting regular audits of the IT infrastructure. The planning and management aspects of IT audit are critical to the overall success of the audit and, consequently the overall success of the systems implemented in the organization.

You must develop a policy for conducting IT audits and develop a project plan for conducting two-week IT audits.In addition to the typical networking and Internetworking infrastructure of a medium-sized organization, the organization has the following characteristics:

• They have a main office and 268 stores in the United States.
• They use a cloud computing environment for storage and applications.
• Their IT infrastructure includes Cisco workgroup and core switches, Cisco routers, Cisco firewalls and intrusion prevention systems, and servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2012.
• They have over 1,000 desktops and approximately 500 organization-owned laptops at the main headquarters.
• They allow employees to bring their own devices into the organization; however, they are subject to search upon entry and exit from the building.
• They enable remote access to corporate information assets for employees and limited access to extranet resources for contractors and other business partners.
• They enable wireless access at the main office and the stores.
• They process an average of 67.2 credit card transactions per hour, every day, at each location, and via their corporate website.

Instructions

Section 1: Internal IT Audit Policy.

Write a 3–4 page paper in which you:

1. Develop an internal IT audit policy, which includes at a minimum: 
   • Overview.
   • Scope.
   • Goals and objectives.
   • Compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
   • Management oversight and responsibility.
   • Areas covered in the IT audits.
   • Frequency of the audits.
2. Use at least two quality resources. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Section 2: Management Plan.

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

1. Explain the management plan for conducting IT audits, including: 
   • Risk management.
   • System software and applications.
   • Wireless networking.
   • Cloud computing.
   • Virtualization.
   • Cybersecurity and privacy.
   • BCP and DRP.
   • Network security.
2. Use at least three quality resources. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Section 3: Project Plan.

Use Microsoft Project or an open source alternative such as Open Project to:

1. Develop a project plan that includes the applicable tasks for each of the major areas listed below for each element of the IT audit mentioned above; plan for a two-week audit. 
   • Risk management.
   • System software and applications.
   • Wireless networking.
   • Cloud computing.
   • Virtualization.
   • Cybersecurity and privacy.
   • Network security.

Section 4: Disaster Recovery Plan.

Write a 5–7 page paper in which you:

1. Develop a disaster recovery plan (DRP) for recovering from a major incident or disaster affecting the organization. 
   • The organization must have no data loss.
   • The organization must have immediate access to organizational data in the event of a disaster.
   • The organization must have critical systems operational within 48 hours.
2. Include within the DRP the audit activities needed to ensure that the organization has an effective DRP and will be able to meet the requirements stated above.
3. Use at least three quality resources. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Develop an internal IT audit policy, a management and project plan for conducting IT audits, and a disaster recovery plan (DRP).

Background: In this assignment, you will design a visualization for a small data set and provide a rigorous rationale for your design choices. You should in theory be ready to explain the contribution of every pixel in the display.

Data Set: Antibiotics

After the World War II, antibiotics were considered as “wonder drugs”, since they were easy remedy for what had been intractable ailments. To learn which drug worked most effectively for which bacterial infection, performance of the three most popular antibiotics on 16 bacteria were gathered.

Table 1: Burtin’s data

I HAVE ATTACHED THE FILE OF THE TABLE!!

The values in the table represent the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), a measure of the effectiveness of the antibiotic, which represents the concentration of antibiotic required to prevent growth in vitro. The reaction of the bacteria to Gram staining is described by the covariate “gram staining”. Bacteria that are stained dark blue or violet are Gram-positive. Otherwise, they are Gram-negative.

Dataset:

.csv Download .csvand .txt Download .txtfiles

Assignment

Your task is to design a static (i.e., single image) visualization that you believe effectively communicates the data (20 points) and provide a short write-up (no more than 2 pages long) describing your design (60 points).

You may find it most instructive to create the chart from scratch using Excel or Tableau Public.

PLEASE TRY TO DO IT ON EXCEL OR TABLEAU PUBLIC!!

While you must use the data set given, note that you are free to transform the data as you see fit. You are also free to incorporate external data as you see fit. Your chart image should be interpretable without looking at your short write-up. Appropriate title, axis labels or legends are needed.

The write-up should include but not limited to the following components:

• Describe how your created the visualization, what software was used, any external data used, the steps you took to create the visualization etc. (10 points)
• Tell the story of the figure. In the big picture, what story (or stories) are you trying to tell?  (10 points)
• Justification of visual encodings. Use the what-how-why framework to analyze your vis. Data: What are data and dataset types? Encodings: marks and channels used? Tasks: What are tasks of your vis? (20 points)
• Effectiveness of visualization. In your write-up, you should provide a rigorous rationale for your design Document the visual encodings you used and why they are appropriate for the data. These decisions include the choice of chart type, size, color, scale, and other visual elements, as well as the use of sorting or other data transformations. How do these decisions facilitate effective communication? Any pros or cons of design? (20 points)

The writing quality of the report will also be evaluated in grading. Please proofread your submission before submitting it and make sure it is free of spelling and grammar issues. (10% of the grade.)

Submission Instructions:

Save the write-up as a Word file ,save the visualization as an image format (PNG or JPEG). Submit both files.

If you only include the image inside the Word file, you will lost the 20 points for not including the individual image file.

Overview: Build an infographic to demonstrate your understanding of the 7 network layers. Instructions: In this assignment, you are being asked to create a visual representation of the 7 Network layers of the OSI model. You can be creative in making your infographic by using graphs and charts in Word; PowerPoint; Piktochart; or Canva. This choice is yours; however, it must include the following: • A description of each of the seven network layers. • The importance of each network layer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppnRQD06ggY   https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-prototype-hi-lo-fidelity/. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/mozilla-paper-prototype/.

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