Test 2: ProGAN training

ProGAN is a technique developed by NVIDIA Labs in 2017 to improve both the speed and stability of GAN training. Describe the process of training ProGan: 

1. basic overall idea
2. generator architectures for the first stage of the ProGAN training process
3. discriminator architectures for the first stage of the ProGAN training process
4. overall structure of the generator and discriminator after the full progressive training process is complete 

 https://youtu.be/2OZrTAYEGaQ?si=Xzpk4z1IqPAQmd_v 

Only use the attached Peer-reviewed Research 

Case Study: Find the Problem

This course is based on peer-reviewed research only and all PDF articles are provided as a foundation (under Books & Resources – Unit 1 Assigned Reading), less the student wants to find additional peer-reviewed articles from the library.

There are two companies to choose between: HealthcareX and ServiceY.

• HealthcareX has experienced rapid growth in both the size of patients as they transition from a paper-based organization into a digital organization (see US EMR/HIPAA mandate). Unfortunately, the growth in data management policies, procedures, and systems has not kept pace with the growth, and the company finds itself in a position where content management is insufficient to ensure the accuracy and availability of the data (leading to sensitive data not being adequately protected). To resolve this problem, the company executives need to understand content management or data management. The company’s chief executive officer (CEO) and chief information officer (CIO) understand the importance, but don’t know anything about EDM, so you need to evaluate the company’s current major content requirements in the following order: EDM Foundations; EDM Infrastructure Integrations: EDM Infrastructure Updates; EDM Governance Review; and EDM Governance Updates. You must provide scientific evidence to the CEO/CIO for a Board presentation that will result in a $500 Million project – you will be responsible for the delivery of this content to clarify EDM to the CEO/CIO, help convince the Board EDM is a good idea, and provide guidance to the company on EDM structure and compliance.
• ServiceY has experienced rapid growth in both the size of patients as they transition from a paper-based organization into a digital organization (see US Sarbanes Oxley mandate). Unfortunately, the growth in data management policies, procedures, and systems has not kept pace with the growth, and the company finds itself in a position where content management is insufficient to ensure the accuracy and availability of the data (leading to sensitive data not being adequately protected). To resolve this problem, the company executives need to understand content management or data management. The company’s chief executive officer (CEO) and chief information officer (CIO) understand the importance, but don’t know anything about EDM, so you need to evaluate the company’s current major content requirements in the following order: EDM Foundations; EDM Infrastructure Integrations: EDM Infrastructure Updates; EDM Governance Review; and EDM Governance Updates. You must provide scientific evidence to the CEO/CIO for a Board presentation that will result in a $500 Million project – you will be responsible for the delivery of this content to clarify EDM to the CEO/CIO, help convince the Board EDM is a good idea, and provide guidance to the company on EDM structure and compliance.

Key Assignment Overview

Throughout this course, you will work on several aspects of enterprise content management that will result in a complete ECM and Data Governance Guidebook for either HeathcareX or ServiceY. You will not actually be performing the implementation of the system, but you will work extensively with the concepts of good enterprise content management practices through peer-reviewed work to provide a comprehensive foundation of the topic. Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for the project. This is the course Key Assignment that you will make contributions to each week.

Enterprise Content Management and Data Governance Policies and Procedures Manual

This course is comprised of a series of Individual Project assignments that will contribute to a Key Assignment submission at the end of the course. Each week, you will complete a part of an Enterprise Content Management and Data Governance Guidebook. You will select either organization HealthcareX or ServiceY and apply your research to the development of an ECM through the Data Governance Guidebook that would be appropriate for understanding what an implementation would look like within the organization. The goal of this course project is to develop an understanding of EDM implications / impacts to an organization with data challenges across the enterprise at the graduate level.

Organization and Project Selection

For the assignments in this course, you will be developing an Enterprise Content Management and Data Governance Guidebook that defines the policies and procedures for management and governance of data and content within the organization. 

Week 1 Tasks:

Your first task in this process will be to select an organization to use as the basis of your research and analysis for each of the assignments in the course. You will also create the shell document for the final project deliverable that you will be working on during each unit. As you proceed through each project phase, you will add content to each section of the final document to gradually complete the final project delivery (this is the Key Assignment). Appropriate research should be conducted to support the development of your document, and assumptions may be made when necessary.

• New Content (Week 1)
• Provide a brief description of the selected organization with a specific focus on the data (content) that will be used as the basis for the projects in the course. Keep it simple so only select 1 or 2 data elements.
• Include relevant company information including: primary data source, primary data problem, importance of the data, how the problem relates to industry (do others have this problem), the potential cost (generalized) from the data problem (from industry research source), and a few key elements about uncontrolled data (from scientific research source).
• Design an EDM comparison between two frameworks that compare them as solutions. Subdivide the EDM elements/structure/components, importance in their use, and real outcomes from a successful implementation (Internet sources are good). PICK ONE. Contrast how this EDM framework matches the company problem and the outcomes expected from a successful implementation.
• Describe which governance frameworks (like HIPAA/HITECH/SOX) have an impact on the company (industry research) and how EDM relates to governance (scientific research).

The following are the project deliverables with suggested section headings:

• Select one of the companies to use as a foundation.
• Enterprise Content Management and Data Governance Policies and Procedures Manual document shell
  • Use Microsoft Word
  • Title Page
    • Course number and name
    • Project name
    • Student name
    • Date
  • Table of Contents
    • Use an autogenerated TOC.
    • It should be on a separate page.
    • It should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.
    • Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so it is up-to-date before submitting your project.
  • Suggested Section Headings (create each heading on a new page with TBD as content except for sections listed under New Content below)
    • Outline and Requirements (Week 1)
      • Company Overview (Data Challenge) (Week 1)
      • EDM Overview (Week 1)
      • Implementation Lifecycle (Week 1)
    • Infrastructure Evaluation (Week 2)
      • Content Requirements (Week 2)
      • Content Design and Use (Week 2)
      • Tools and IT (Week 2)
    • Infrastructure Improvements (Week 3)
      • Analysis Outcome (Week 3)
    • Data Governance Evaluation (Week 4)
      • Foundations/Review (Week 4)
      • Interaction/Integration with EDM(Week 4)
      • Policies and Procedures (Week 4)
    • Data Governance Improvements (Week 5)
      • Analysis Outcome (Week 5)
• Name the document “yourname_IT621_IP1.doc.”

Organizations:

Retail store

Hospital

1. Identify the risk exposure for each of these two organizations. Compare and contrast these risks.
   • List the risks (of the information being lost, corrupted, stolen, etc.) by different methods.
   • Identify the impact of not adequately protecting this information (consequences and costs).

Assignment Requirements:

2 pages double spaced

at least one reference

• Case Study: Latest Wireless Attacks
  • What are some of the most recent attacks that have been launched against wireless systems? What vulnerabilities did they exploit? How much damage was caused? What was the estimated dollar amount of the loss? How could they have been better protected?

Instructions

Hello Class!

Welcome to Week # 3. This week’s assignment will help you to fulfill the requirements for the third course objective (CO-3: Prepare a plan to manage functions that encompass overseeing a program or technical aspect of a security program at a high level ensuring currency with changing risk and threat environments). For this week’s assignment instructions, please see below:

Assignment Instructions:
You are tasked as the Chief Information Security Officer for a large Fortune 500 International Firm to plan, develop and manage the functions that oversee a new large scale Cybersecurity program. The large scale Cybersecurity program will be a “Digital Blackwater” type organization (see the description below of “Private or Mercenary Armies” from the textbook).

For the purpose of this assignment, you are to search the Internet and utilize course reading materials to research the types of functions, strategies and tactics this organization will use for this new program. Use your imagination and name your proposed organization and follow the requirements below:

REQUIREMENTS:

1. 4 – 6 Pages in length in APA format (not including a cover page and reference section)
2. Cover Page
3. Introduction – Firm name and overview of its purpose
4. Technical organizational proposal:
   • Value proposition for the new organization
   • Functions of the organization including management
   • How the organization will address dynamic Cyber risk and threat environments
   • Strategies and tactics the organization will employ
   • Proposed benefits for the U.S. government
   • How will the organization make a profit
5. Reference Section

MISCELLANEOUS:

1. Use current and real world data to make your points, not just the textbook
2. Your references should not be more than 5 years old
3. Your assignment is due by Sunday not later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.

Private or Mercenary Armies

In an age where cyber warfare is more common than the physical battlefield, it may be necessary for the private sector to stop playing defense and go on offense, Gen. Michael Hayden said on August 1, 2011. Hayden, who led the National Security Administration and Central Intelligence Agency under president George W. Bush, said during a panel discussion at the Aspen Security Forum in Aspen, Colo. that the federal government may not be the sole defender of private sector companies—and that there is precedent for such action. “We may come to a point where defense is more actively and aggressively defined even for the private sector and what is permitted there is something that we would never let the private sector do in physical space,” he said. “Let me really throw out a bumper sticker for you: how about a digital Blackwater?” he asked. “I mean, we have privatized certain defense activities, even in physical space, and now you have got a new domain in which we donot have any paths trampled down in the forest in terms of what it is we expect the government—or will allow the government—to do”. Blackwater is a private military contractor that has changed its name to Academi after incidents in Iraq gave them a negative image. If companies decide to hire forces (hackers) to strike back or conduct recovery operations it could change the cyberspace battlefield dramatically (Winterfield and Andress, 2013).