Overall Project Scenario

Corporation Techs provides remote and on-site support to small and mid-size businesses. Clients use Corporation Techs’ services to solve problems involving malware removal, to manage data recovery and network issues, and to install hardware and software.Due to recent developments, most technical representatives will begin working from home within the next six months. Because Corporation Techs provides 24/7 support, its systems and communications pathways must be fully operational at all times. In addition, the company has been experiencing unprecedented growth and is preparing to double its client-facing staff. You are a junior network architect who is responsible for helping to plan and design network enhancements to create a more secure internal network, and to ensure secure remote access.

Deliverables

The project is divided into several parts. Details for each deliverable can be found in this document. Refer to the Course Syllabus for submission dates.

• Project Part 1: Network Design
• Project Part 2: Firewall Selection and Placement
• Project Part 3: Remote Access and VPNs
• Project Part 4: Final Network Design Report

Module 05 Content

1. Module 05 Course Project – RFP Part V
   Working off the same Request for Proposal.docx, continue to use your imagination and the fictional website hosting service provider you previously created to complete the following sections of the RFP Response Template.docx that you were developing in the previous week.

   Request for Proposal.docx

   RFP Response Template.docxWith this fictional business in mind complete the following sections of RFP Response Template:

   • Section 4.5.1: Include the services needed as a response to this RFP, then add in service offerings for Credit Card transaction services.
   • Section 4.5.2: Include bulk service discounts for the cloud-service provider of your choosing. Be sure to address web application development and credit card transaction services.
   • Section 4.5.3: Include information about how your fictional organization is consistently growing and as such, the price points for services do change year over year. Draft a paragraph including how these cost savings are evaluated quarterly, and any cost savings are passed to the customers as a credit for services annually.

Networking Trends Paper:  In this paper, you will research and report on network design and management trends over the last three years (present year minus 2) in the areas of virtualization, security, hardware, network management tools, software defined networking, and wireless.   Choose, at least, three areas and explain the general trend and trends within two subsets of the area (i.e., security has subsets of physical, perimeter, monitoring) over the last three years.  Use at least one figure from Google Trends showing a trend discussed in your paper.  Support your information and make sure all information sources are appropriately cited.

The paper must use APA 6th ed., 7th printing formatting and contain a title page, 5 to 7 pages of content,and a minimum of four peer-reviewed references

Your assignment will be graded based on the rubric, which can be viewed when clicking on the assignment submission link above.

Assignment Resource(s):

• Google Trends – This website presents current Google trends.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SDNrJN_qcc

Networking Trends: World According To Google

Duration: (24:42)
User: n/a – Added: 5/21/14

What is Google Trends? This video discussed Google trends on recent advances in networking Data Center Networking, Network Virtualization, Cloud Computing, SDN Big Data., etc.

Assignment 1: Enumeration of Information

During the enumeration process, hackers are trying to learn more about the actual system and the information contained within the computer systems.

Tasks:

On the basis of information from the course textbook, answer the following questions:

• What information are hackers trying to obtain through the enumeration process?
• Why is this data so valuable to hackers?
• What are the safety measures that organizations can implement to protect this information?

Note: Your response should rely upon at least two sources from professional literature—articles from peer-reviewed journals and relevant textbooks. Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Submission Details:

By Week 3, Day 3, in a minimum of 250 words, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Week 3, Day 7, review and comment on at least two of your peers’ responses. Consider the following in your response:

• Provide a statement of clarification or a point of view with rationale.
• Challenge a point of discussion or draw a relationship between two or more points of the discussion.

Discussion Grading Criteria and Rubric

All discussion assignments in this course will be graded using a rubric. This assignment is worth 40 points. Download the discussion rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations.

1. What are      some examples of confidential information? (provide at least 5 examples).      (10 points)

2. What does a buffer overflow do? (10 points) 

3. Why is it important for information security professionals to know the laws that affect them? (10 points)

4. What are some other security models besides the CIA triad? (10 points)

5. What are the four components of security documentation? (10 points)

6. What are responsibilities of a security architect? (10 points)

7. What is authentication? What is authorization? Together, what are authentication and authorization used for? (10 points).

8. What are the three commands for administering database object permissions? (10 points)

9. What best practice network architecture should be used for databases that provide data via a web server to the Internet? (10 points)

10. Why is encryption generally not used in the core layer? (10 points)