Individual Assignment.

Both Deliverables: Post in Discussion Board.

(1) Prepare a list of four (4) Back-up and Disaster Recovery vendors.

Vendors: https://solutionsreview.com/backup-disaster-recovery/backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions-directory/

Provide a brief description of their services.

Create a grid of them and compare and contrast them. 

(2) Disaster Recovery – AWS Outage 

Disaster Recovery Preparedness

At 9:45 AM (PST) on February 28, 2017, Amazon reported a severe degradation with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Many companies and organizations rely on AWS for their infrastructure. As a result, the incident created a highly-deprecated experience for customers. 

Many companies engineering teams worked through this outage and restored services using an alternate site. 

Companies are continuously enhancing/improving their back-up and disaster recovery readiness. Organizations learned from this incident to mitigate the risks associated with large scale outages from their service providers.

Using Internet resources, research and answer the following questions using MS Word/PDF:  

1. When did the AWS outage start and how long did it last?

2. What was the root-cause of the outage?

3. About how many sites were effected and what are some names of the larger companies?

4. When was the last time AWS was down prior to this incident and what was the root-cause?

5. Has AWS been down since this incident? If so, when, for how long, and what was the root-cause of the outage?

6. What can AWS do to prevent an outage again?

7. Briefly describe the AWS Shared Responsibility Model

8. What can a customer of AWS do to continue uninterrupted computer operations?

9. See this link on Barracuda Security for AWS: https://www.barracuda.com/programs/aws

If you were a customer of AWS, would you consider implementing Barracuda Security for AWS? What security features and why?

10. Prepare a high-level diagram of the AWS infrastructure and pinpoint in the diagram where the root-cause of the security vulnerability occurred.

Grading – 15 Points broken down as follows:

– 5 Points – The details in Deliverable 1

– 10 Points –  The details in Deliverable 2

Measuring progress and requirements in a project can be completed through performance testing. As you review the results, it leads to ways to maintain the project progress. In this week’s assignment you will develop requirements that need measurable results through performance testing. Review the scenario and complete the activity below.

The Recreation and Wellness Intranet Project team is working hard to ensure that the new system they develop meets expectations. The team has a detailed scope statement, but the project manager, Tony Prince, wants to make sure they’re not forgetting requirements that might affect how people view the quality of the project. He knows that the project’s sponsor and other senior managers are most concerned with getting people to use the system, improve their health, and reduce healthcare costs. Users want the system to be user-friendly, informative, fun to use, and fast.

Complete the following in a Microsoft Word document.

Develop a list of 6 quality standards or requirements related to meeting the stakeholder expectations described in the Running Case.

Write a 45- to 90-word brief description of each requirement. For example, a requirement might be that 90 percent of employees have logged into the system within 2 weeks after the system rolls out.

Write a 175-word explanation based on the list of standards and requirements on how you will measure progress on meeting the requirements. For example, you might have employees log into the system as part of the training program and track who attends the training. You could also build a feature into the system to track usage by username, department, and other criteria. Support your answer with 1 credible source outside of the course materials.

Submit your assignment. 

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?

As an avid user of online social media, you identify a very untrue blog written by an anonymous writer. The blog contains many horrible accusations that are unfounded and untrue. After identifying this blog, you feel violated and confused. What steps can you take to have the blog removed? What defamation charges can be filed against the creator of the blog? 

Three Required Headers:

Blog Scenario

Procedure

Defamation Charges 

Que 1:

Discuss the advantage of acquiring and maintaining intellectual property rights

Que 2:

Discuss this statement: “How do you know if the company is progressing or not?” What separates “vanity metrics” and real, actionable metrics.

Que 3: 

Discuss this statement: “With the rapid advances in science, growing market opportunities in convergent technology marketplaces and sustained levels of public and private investment in research and development means there are ample opportunities for technology-based entrepreneurs”. Discuss the opportunities for technology-based entrepreneurs.

NOTE:  My assignment will need actual references from EBSCO, Google scholar, or Semantic Scholar with a website link at the end