Purpose

This course-wide project introduces you to a variety of tasks and skills that are required for an entry-level security administrator who is tasked with securing systems in a Microsoft Windows environment.

The following tools and resources will be needed to complete this project:

§ Course textbook

§ Access to the Internet

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

You will be able to:

§ Describe the impact of adding Active Directory to an existing Windows network.

§ Develop procedures for changing access controls.

§ Develop procedures for ensuring a malware-free environment.

§ Recommend Group Policy Objects for a Windows environment.

§ Develop procedures for auditing security in a Windows system.

§ Develop procedures for restoring a failed Windows system.

§ Recommend Windows hardening techniques.

§ Describe security goals and write policies for securing Windows applications.

§ Ensure the integrity of all evidence collected in a Windows environment.

Overall Project Scenario

Always Fresh Foods Inc. is a food distributor with a central headquarters and main warehouse in Colorado, as well as two regional warehouses in Nevada and Virginia.

The company runs Microsoft Windows 2019 on its servers and Microsoft Windows 10 on its workstations. There are 2 database servers, 4 application servers, 2 web servers, and 25 workstation computers in the headquarters offices and main warehouse. The network uses workgroups, and users are created locally on each computer. Employees from the regional warehouses connect to the Colorado network via a virtual private network (VPN) connection.

Due to a recent security breach, Always Fresh wants to increase the overall security of its network and systems. They have chosen to use a solid multilayered defense to reduce the likelihood that an attacker will successfully compromise the company’s information security. Multiple layers of defense throughout the IT infrastructure makes the process of compromising any protected resource or data more difficult than any single security control. In this way, Always Fresh protects its business by protecting its information.

Project Part 1: Active Directory Recommendations

Scenario

Assume you are an entry-level security administrator working for Always Fresh. You have been asked to evaluate the option of adding Active Directory to the company’s network.

Tasks

Create a summary report to management that answers the following questions to satisfy the key points of interest regarding the addition of Active Directory to the network:

1. System administrators currently create users on each computer where users need access. In Active Directory, where will system administrators create users?

2. How will the procedures for making changes to the user accounts, such as password changes, be different in Active Directory?

3. What action should administrators take for the existing workgroup user accounts after converting to Active Directory?

4. How will the administrators resolve differences between user accounts defined on different computers? In other words, if user accounts have different settings on different computers, how will Active Directory address that issue? (Hint: Consider security identifiers [SIDs].)

Required Resources

§ Internet access

§ Course textbook

Submission Requirements

§ Format: Microsoft Word (or compatible)

§ Font: Arial, size 12, double-space

§ Citation Style: Follow your school’s preferred style guide

§ Length: 2 to 4 pages

Self-Assessment Checklist

§ I addressed all questions required for the summary report.

§ I created a well-developed and formatted report with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

§ I followed the submission guidelines

Introduction

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Questions

1) Sequential pattern mining is a topic of data mining concerned with finding statistically relevant patterns between data examples where the values are delivered in a sequence. Discuss what is sequential data? What is sequential pattern mining? Explain difference between classification and clustering in data mining.

2) Consider the mean of a cluster of objects from a binary transaction data set. What are the minimum and maximum values of the components of the mean? What is the interpretation of components of the cluster mean? Which components most accurately characterize the objects in the cluster?

Conclusion

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Grading Rubric for DF5

• Providing a comprehensive discussion of the topic: 25 percent
• Justifying ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from texts, Web sites, other references, or personal experience and cited the sources in the correct: 25 percent
• Commented on at least two of your classmates’ postings in a meaningful way at least 100 words: 25 percent
• Filling the number of required 200 words or more for the discussion: 25 percent

1. Analyze Carr’s position in regards to PC vs. Mac, Open Office vs. Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Powerpoint vs. Tableau.

2. Do some independent research on Nicholas Carr (the author of “IT Doesn’t Matter”) and explain his current position on the ability of IT to provide competitive advantage.

3. Review the WebEx website. What features of WebEx would contribute to good collaboration? Compare WebEx with other collaboration tools such as Skype or Google Hangouts?

Could you please provide answers to the above exercise questions.

Read Chapter 6 of the textbook and answer   

 Question 06: Have you ever received an e-mail that indicated someone else had sent out spam with your return e-mail address on it? How would you feel about that?(150 words for the answer this question)

comment this 2 article (40 words for each comments)

1- This question raises an interesting dilemma. On one hand every person that owns an access point to the internet should be able to maintain and protect it to a reasonable extent. In one sense the in-action of not protecting your machine, makes you a perpetrator. On the other hand, people being infected by viruses and unknowingly running a program that is harmful to others, is a victim. I would say that the act of running one of these scripts should not be punished, but they should be made to replace or wipe their hard drive for the protection of others on the network. I would say that being involved in a spam emailing service makes you both a victim and a perpetrator. 

2-  When I first moved out of my house and into a dorm in Freshman year of college, I had a habit of not locking my door. I didn’t think it was a huge deal because the dorm was in a hidden corner of the building and my roommate had essentially moved out to live with her friend. Typically, it only helped me because there were times when a friend would want to borrow something from my room and if I wasn’t home, I could just tell them to let themselves in. I also had a bad habit of leaving my keys in my pockets, so when I was running late, I didn’t have to worry about digging through my laundry to find the keys. However, once I moved back home a couple years later, I continued that same habit with the front door of my parents’ house, where people actually do try to break in. To fix this, we installed an electronic lock that automatically locks the door after anyone leaves or enters. 

 
Write a program and flowchart, and include a snippet of your program running.ECPI has rented a Cruise Boat for its upcoming graduating class! You work at ECPI, and have been asked to manage the reservations for students and their families. You need to write a program that tracks the ages of at least 2 students and their families; as well as the meal plans they have selected. The program will achieve the following:

• Track the ages of at least 2 parties – Student and family member(s
  • We need to capture ages, to know what each family member can participate in
  • Based off the age,  the price of the ticket per guest.  Sum up the cost of tickets per family.   Example,   $1000/adults,  $500/child,  $850/Seniors
• Track the meal plans they have selected per party
  • Each family/party can select a meal plan per day; and your program must track those costs
• Once you have included the Meal Plans, and the prices:
  • Calculate the total cost for the Meal Plans selected
  • And then the total cost of both meal plans

Instructions

The program you write should include these components at a minimum. Remember though: Get creative, and feel free to add different components that you feel are applicable in a Cruise Reservation program.

1. You must have at least two different arrays – These are, in effect, parallel arrays:
   1. One for each Family/Party capturing the ages of every person in the reservation
      1. Minimum: 4 Families
   2. One for each Meal Plan Options selected
      1. Each family should have a meal plan included  
         1. Meal Plans can be, for example, breakfast, lunch and supper and should include just the prices for each one
         2. create and display a menu to see choices and prices
   3. ** Please note:
      1. The image below does not reflect the menu or the ticket cost 
      2. i. The arrays are for two families; and two meal plans, including the prices for each of the meals chosen
2. Remember to use a “for” loop for each array
3. You should have Totals that calculates the totals for each family meal plan
   1. Because you will have at 4 Parties/Families, all should have their own price totals; and then also a total for the meal plans reserved and ticketing
4. Hints and Suggestions:
   1. You can set your own book prices – for example, see the prices in the example below
   2. You can set how many Meal Plans included for each section
      1. You can also write the program to ask the user for this input, but this is not required
5. At the end, it prints out the totals for each section
6. The very last total of all Meal Plans and ticket totals should be printed in a different color – so it really stands out