Summary Report To Management That Describes Hardening Techniques

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As a security administrator for Always Fresh, you have been instructed to ensure that Windows authentication, networking, and data access are hardened. This will help to provide a high level of security.

The following are issues to be addressed through hardening techniques:

Ø Previous attempts to protect user accounts have resulted in users writing long passwords down and placing them near their workstations. Users should not write down passwords or create passwords that attackers could easily guess, such as words founds in the dictionary.

Ø Every user, regardless of role, must have at least one unique user account. A user who operates in multiple roles may have multiple unique user accounts. Users should use the account for its intended role only.

Ø Anonymous users of the web server applications should only be able to access servers located in the demilitarized zone (DMZ). No anonymous web application users should be able to access any protected resources in the Always Fresh IT infrastructure.

Ø To protect servers from attack, each server should authenticate connections based on the source computer and user.

Tasks

Create a summary report to management that describes a hardening technique that addresses each issue listed above. Provide rationale for each selection.

Due to the Always Fresh expansion, management wants additional network controls to protect their growing network.

Fieldwork Project Research Questions

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Fieldwork Project Research Questions

Hide Assignment InformationInstructions

During Week 6, think of at least three research questions relating to the music culture that you want to explore. Reflect on these questions.

To guide your reflections on these questions, compile source information on your subject through library and Internet research, documenting three of the best library sources (these may be in the form of eBooks and articles from the UMGC Library) and three of the best web-based sources. Visit the “Is My Source Credible?” page provided by the UMGC Library and the Research Guide for Music (including links to Open Access Music Journals) for assistance in locating reliable, credible sources.

After compiling your list of six sources (3 library articles/Ebooks and 3 educational websites) and reflecting on each of the three research questions, write 2-3 paragraphs in response to each question. Locate and include images, listening examples, or videos to illustrate your reflections.

Submit reflections on your three research questions, list of six sources, and images and/or links to listening examples at the Fieldwork Project Research Questions link, worth 5 out of the total 25 points for the entire project. You will receive feedback so you will know that you are on the right track before completing the Interview Questions portion of the project during Week 7.

Submit the Fieldwork Project Topic to the assignment folder by the end of Week 6 (Tuesday at 11:59 PM ET).

Please view the second row of the grading rubric to see how to earn the full 5 points for your reflections on your research questions, list of 6 sources, and images and/or listening examples for Week 6.

English Composition, Macroeconomics & Sociology of Marriage and Family

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ENGLISH COMPOSITION

 

For this assignment, write a well-developed one-two paragraph summary of the essay entitled: https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/31/politics/gun-town-hall/index.html

Gun Debate: Where is the Middle Ground?” by Mallory Simon, CNN (Links to an external site.)

Your submission must:

· Avoid the use of 1st and 2nd person. 

RESOURCES

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html (Links to an external site.)

https://egcc.libguides.com/general-writing-help

Samuel Forlenza, PhD. (2020, January 21). APA Style 7th Edition: Student Paper Formatting [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hXY1xiZjo&t=1s

APA paper formatting example included in the link below.

https://onedrive.live.com/View.aspx?resid=9E1D26621EA2350E!922&authkey=!ACb0W46RTUEyCPk

· Image of two hands. Authored by: isado. Located at: https://flic.kr/p/4c9cZA (Links to an external site.). License: CC BY-ND: Attribution-NoDerivatives

SOCIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE & FAMILY
Lesson 5 Discussion

In 250 words

How do you define love?  What are some different types of love you have for others in your life?  How do you show these different types of love to those people?

Resources – Love and Intimacy

Websites:

Adult Development study 

https://www.adultdevelopmentstudy.org/ (Links to an external site.)

CBS This Morning. (2016, May 27). What makes us happy and healthy? [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zqloy9Ma_s

TEDxTalks. (2015, November 30). The Good Life | Robert Waldinger | TEDxBeaconStreet [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-7zAkwAOYg

  

Lesson 5 Assignment

The Harvard Study

In a one-two page paper, discuss The Harvard Study and the findings.  After watching the videos and exploring the website, including what you have discovered regarding the changes from the beginning of the study to now.  What are your thoughts regarding the study, findings, and longevity of the study?        

Lesson 6 Discussion

In 250 words

How do we create a win-win outcome during an argument?  Do you agree with the authors’ point of view that arguments should not occur over technology?

Resources

Readings – Communications and Connections

Article:

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1786&context=extension_curall

Assignment- 6: Goal Development:

In this first part of the assignment, I need just a one page response. 

Develop a goal to work on during the course on a behavior that you would like to change within yourself. List the goal and develop 3 objectives to measure your progress with the goal.  

During the rest of the course continue to work on meeting your goal.  Keep a tracking log of your progress.  In the final week of class submit a two-three page paper stating your goal, the objectives, attach your tracking log, and report your findings.  Then answer the following questions: Did you meet your goal? How difficult was it to work on the objectives each week to work toward your goal? Were you able to track your progress each week?  Could you use this strategy to help others develop and meet goals leading to changes in their lives?

SUCCEEDING IN COLLEGE

SMART Goals Discussion Question

Criteria to receive full credit:

· Write an original post answering the question(s) in depth.

Answer the following question(s): In 3 Paragraphs.

1. What are your thoughts on this goal-setting strategy? 

2. Have you used this goal-setting strategy before? If so, how did it work for you?

3. Do you think SMART goals could help you in school? In your personal life? If so, how?

4. State what each letter in SMART stands for, and write one SMART goal related to your education you would like to achieve in the next 3-6 months (short-term goal).

Make sure it meets the SMART goal requirements for full credit.

RESOURCES

Video: How to Create a Productive Workspace

studyquill. (2018, January 22). how to create a productive workspace [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCk9SILTo1g

Video: Time Management for College Students

EKU Student Success Center. (2020, June 15). Time Management for College Students [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxjnKL4Hhqo

Video: Procrastination

CrashCourse. (2017, September 12). Procrastination: Crash Course Study Skills #6 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2y_SLOvOvw

MACROECONOMICS

In 3 paragraphs, respond to the following. The post should be substantive and be supported by course concepts. Y

What is the relationship (if any) between inflation and unemployment? How might the two affect each other?

RESOURCES

1. Licenses and Attributions: Title: Intro to the Solow Model of Economic Growth Author: Marginal Revolution University Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAS-t83Tx0

2. Licenses and Attributions: Title: Defining the Unemployment Rate Author: Marginal Revolution University Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPRQnQxsL3E&list=PL-uRhZ_p-BM52EbMG1NR1ZfG9tEvcxE4u&index=36

3. Licenses and Attributions: Title: Zimbabwe and Hyperinflation: Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire? Author: Marginal Revolution University Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78-BlZXm7wA&list=PL-uRhZ_p-BM52EbMG1NR1ZfG9tEvcxE4u&index=4436

Peronsal SWOT Ananalysis – Fill the template attached

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Introduction from Teacher:

We just learned the value of a SWOT analysis in this module for businesses.  Business people completing the SWOT typically use a template to sort their thoughts and write down what they are analyzing.  They include their completed template right in their business plan. 

Instructions – Your Academic SWOT Analysis:

A SWOT is a handy tool for individuals too.  People complete SWOTs to analyze their own personal strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats to help them make important decisions.   

For this assignment, you will create your own academic SWOT analysis.    

Analyze your own internal Strengths and Weakness related to your current college situations. 

Analyze the external Opportunities and Threats (outside of your control) also related to college.

Example of one complete section.  Internal Strengths related to education:  

Strengths

Persistent –  I take a full load of classes each semester, plus one more so I can graduate sooner.

Organized – I keep a written calendar with all my assignment start and due dates and sync it with my computer so I don’t miss anything.

Seek help when needed – I take advantage of the free tutoring services offered by the college, where I can share my draft work and get feedback to improve it. 

Focused – I can study anywhere, even when my roommates have friends over, on the bus, or when using the campus’s free WiFi lot.

HIST 357 Assignment 3

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I WANT 3.5 PAGES OF ESSAY OF THIS WRITING ASSIGNMENT DOUBLE SPACED MLA FORMAT. THE QUESTION AND INSTRUCTRIONS ARE GIVEN BELOW:

Topic: The New Left

The on-line reading for this assignment is available in the attached pdf.

Herbert Marcuse’s 1979 essay “The Failure of the New Left?,” criticized what he saw as the weaknesses of that movement that defined 1960s student radicalism. Marcuse nonetheless argued that it was not a failure despite the shortcomings he identified. He also suggested paths opened by the New Left that could direct the Left toward new avenues of critique of and opposition to advanced capitalism (the critique of culture and mainstream values, or rise of feminism for example). Identify some of what Marcuse claimed were the weaknesses of the New Left and to what degree in your view are these criticisms valid. Also, identify why given his examination of these weakness Marcuse still insisted that the New Left was not a failure, and how its influence in his view still offered fruitful avenues for the transformation of “advanced capitalism” into a more progressive social and economic system. Lastly, discuss what you see as any positive or negative influences that came out of the New Left from you own perspective and the reasons for your own judgments on this issue.  

NOTE: Students can find a brief but highly informative summation of key features of the New Left to help them contextualize that movement and its aims at the web address below:

https://webs.wofford.edu/whisnantcj/his382/the_new_left.pdf

Reduction of hospital acquired pressure ulcer

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Introduction

· Introduces topic and provides   overview of the issue (2 pts.) 

· Discusses why this issue is   pertinent to the particular unit/organization and what led student to choose   the topic (2 pts.)

· Identifies unit, manager, etc.   support for the project (1 pt.)

· Identifies how the project will specifically benefit the   unit/organization (2 pts.)

 

Literature review: topic/issue

· Includes two recent articles   (less than 5-7 years) from professional nursing or health sciences journals   (2 pts.)

· For each article: provides   brief summary and discusses how the article is pertinent and relevant to the   topic/issue (4 pts./each article=8 total)

 

Literature   review: solution/intervention

· Includes two recent (less than 5-7 years)   articles from professional nursing or health sciences journals (2 pts.)

· For each article: provides brief summary and   discusses how the article is pertinent and relevant to the solution or   interventions (4 pts./each article=8 total)

· Articles support the student’s chosen solution   or intervention (2 pts.)

 

Implementation/intervention

· Clearly describes final project or   intervention (2 pts.)

· Outlines specific steps to implement final   project/solution, including timeline for how the project could be “rolled   out” (4 pts.)

· Discusses how the project will address/improve   the clinical issue (2 pts.)

· Discusses future follow-up, evaluation, and/or   measurement of the impact of the project (3 pts.) 

 

Paper mechanics

· Incorporates required content in a 4-5-page   paper (not including title page and reference page) (2 pts.)

· Follows correct APA: 

  • Proper title page (1         pt.)
  • Appropriate text         spacing, font size, headings, and in-text citations (2 pts.)
  • Formatted reference         page (2 pts.)

· Writes clearly; uses correct grammar,   spelling, and punctuation; avoids first person voice (3 pts.)

 

Grading criteria   for e-POSTER

 

Topic/issue

· Clearly displays the topic or issue (2 pts.)

· Includes general information about the topic   or issue 

(2 pts.) *

· Communicates specifics about why it is   pertinent to the particular unit or organization (2 pts.) *

· States institutional support (1 pt.)

*If applicable,   poster uses appropriate graphic or visual which conveys national or local   data, trends, organization or unit statistics, etc. 

 

Literature   review of the topic/issue

· Includes literature support of the topic or   issue (1 pt.)

· Summarizes most important point(s) of each   article (4 pts.)

· Clearly connects authors with literature   points (1 pt.)

 

Solution/intervention

· Clearly outlines solution and presents as   feasible (3 pts.)

· Includes literature support of chosen solution   (2 pt.)

· Clearly connects authors with solution   literature (1 pt.)

 

Implementation

· Identifies and explains final project and   attaches a copy of “work product” (in-service handouts, pamphlet, form, pocket card, for example) (4 pts.)

· Specifically describes how the final project   would be implemented, including timeline for “roll-out” (2 pts.)

· Describes how the impact of the project could   be measured or evaluated (2)

· Addresses the future implications of the   project for the unit and/or nursing in general (2 pts.)

 

e-Poster   mechanics

· Professional looking: follows elements of   e-poster construction; organized and clear layout that flows well (2 pts.) 

· Visually appealing: words and graphics are   easy to see; appropriate use of color (2 pts.) 

· · Reference page is complete, in proper APA   format, and submitted with the e-poster (1 pt.)

Unit 7 Discussions

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Unit 7 Discussion (ACC211 Managerial Accounting)

What insight does ROI give into investment performance? Is it acceptable to lose profit on one product, if that product is vital to the sale of an extremely profitable product?  Why?

As you think about these questions, also consider what other measures beside ROI might be help in analyzing solutions to business problems – or opportunities.

Unit 7 DB: Diversity and Inclusion (BUS311 Managerial Communication)

In the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business, we have made a commitment to diversity and inclusion and have included discussions on this topic in several of your courses.  In this discussion, we will respectfully tackle the sensitive topics of bias and microaggressions. As a manager, or employee you may have to handle or even experience bias, discrimination, stereotyping and microaggressions.  

Please watch the following two videos and then post your response to the questions below.

Watch Video

Are you biased? I am | Kristen Pressner | TEDxBasel

Duration: 8:49
User: n/a – Added: 8/30/16

YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_xYSOZrgU

Watch Video

Eliminating Microaggressions: The Next Level of Inclusion | Tiffany Alvoid | TEDxOakland

Duration: 9:00
User: n/a – Added: 12/9/19

YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPqVit6TJjw

Connect the opportunities and challenges of communicating in a diverse workplace with the videos.  As a manager of a diverse team, how can you prevent biases and microaggression from impacting your team’s ability to communicate?   Conduct research or use your personal experience and provide at least one technique to support diversity and inclusion.

Unit 7 DB: Corporate Social Responsibility (MGT105 Principles of Management)

What does social responsibility mean to you personally?  Do you think business organizations should be socially responsible?  What do you think is the best way for managers to ensure their employees act ethically? 

nursing assignment.

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Assignment: Controversy Associated with Personality and Paraphilic Disorders

Between 10% and 20% of the population experience personality disorders. They are difficult to treat as individuals with personality disorders are less likely to seek help than individuals with other mental health disorders. Treatment can be challenging as they do not see their symptoms as painful to themselves or others.

Photo Credit: Joe Houghton – www.joehoughtonphotography.ie / Moment / Getty Images

Paraphilic disorders are far more common in men than in women, and generally quite chronic, lasting at least two years. Treatment of these disorders usually involves both psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic treatments.

In this Assignment, you will explore personality and paraphilic disorders in greater detail. You will research potentially controversial elements of the diagnosis and/or treatment and explain ethical and legal considerations when working with these disorders.

To Prepare
  • Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide on assessing, diagnosing, and treating personality and paraphilic disorders.
  • Select a specific personality or paraphilic disorder from the DSM-5 to use for this Assignment.
  • Use the Walden Library to investigate your chosen disorder further, including controversial aspects of the disorder, maintaining the therapeutic relationship, and ethical and legal considerations. 
The Assignment

In 2–3 pages:

  • Explain the controversy that surrounds your selected disorder.
  • Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature.
  • Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a patient that may present with this disorder.
  • Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to this disorder that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

WK3

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In their article, “Sex, Sexuality, Sexting and Sex Ed,” researchers Brown, Keller, and Stern (2009) state that the Internet has become a sex education class. Based on this article, identify a website that a teen may view to learn more about dating, sex, or romantic love, taking care to not include pornographic sites. Analyze how a teen may interpret the information presented on the website and discuss whether you view this site as having a positive or negative impact on the sexual developmental process of a teen. What would you change on the site? What do you see as beneficial?

The Assignment (2- to 3-page paper):

  • Analyze a website (not pornographic) that may educate an adolescent on dating, sex, and/or romantic love. Make sure to provide the website address (URL). (https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/july/teenagers-love)
  • Identify and discuss implications of the website on an adolescent’s view on relationships and sexuality.
    • What impact would these messages have on the sexual developmental process of a teen?
    • How might this website influence an adolescent’s understanding of adult sexuality and romantic relationships?

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the resources for this course.

Cultural Competence

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Discussion 2: Cultural Competence

When you obtain your PhD in social work or your DSW, you may decide to teach. There are many avenues to pursue teaching. There is the traditional route—obtaining a faculty position in higher education, for example, or a faculty position in an accredited social work program. There are other less traditional routes, such as supervising social work students who are in field placement at your agency or developing instructional curricula for universities/colleges or in other settings. Regardless of the setting in which you teach, a theory often informs your teaching style.

Theories conceptualizing cultural competence play just such a role in shaping teaching strategies. The Council on Social Work Education requires social work programs to address diversity in their content, which underscores the importance of cultural competence in the field. More than likely, all agree on the assumption that social workers need to be culturally competent in their practice. However, there is no one way to go about teaching cultural competency to social work students.

In this Discussion, you have an opportunity to examine different theories and approaches in the definition and conceptualization of cultural competence in social work. After reviewing many approaches, Kohli, Huber, and Faul (2010) started to delineate recommendations for social work education. They advocated that “social work students need to be educated to become self-aware and have an appreciation of their own value systems,” and “they need to be immersed in cultural experiences where they observe the uniqueness of every individual” (p. 268). These two recommendations are abstract. As a future social work educator, you will need to generate specific ideas for teaching cultural competency at either the undergraduate or graduate level. Additionally, you will reinforce your practice of annotating sources as you research—a habit that will benefit you as you work to think more critically in your reviews and catalog resources to reference for your dissertation or DSW capstone project.

To prepare:      

  • Review the following article from the Learning Resources: “Historical and Theoretical Development of Culturally Competent Social Work Practice” by Kohli, Huber, and Faul.
  • Conduct research in the Walden library on best practices for teaching concepts related to diversity, cultural competence, and social justice.
  • Review the Walden University Writing Center Annotated Bibliography resource in your Learning Resources this week.
By Day 4

Post a response to the following:

  • Write an annotation to the article you identified on best practices for teaching concepts related to diversity, cultural competence, and social justice.
  • Select one social work approach from Table 3 of Kohli et al. (on pages 262–265). Explain in 2–3 sentences your rationale for selecting this approach for informing your teaching strategies.
  • Describe in 3–4 sentences one specific teaching strategy to promote self-awareness among social work students, as well as the general sociodemographic of the student body. Use the article you found as a starting point to conduct additional research in this area. Provide scholarly evidence to support your recommendation of this strategy. Be sure to indicate whether you are targeting undergraduate or graduate social work students.
  • Evaluate how the above teaching strategy aligns with the approach you selected.
  • Describe in 3–4 sentences one specific teaching strategy to help students observe the uniqueness of individuals. Be sure to indicate whether you are targeting undergraduate or graduate social work students, as well as the general sociodemographic of the student body. Use the article you found as a starting point to conduct additional research in this area. Provide scholarly evidence to support your recommendation of this strategy.
  • Evaluate how the above teaching strategy aligns with the approach you selected.
  • Explain how the teaching strategy can advance social change.
By Day 6

Respond to two colleagues who chose approaches different from the one you selected:

  • Evaluate one strength and one limitation in the approach informing each colleague’s recommended teaching strategy.
  • Elaborate on your colleagues’ explanation of how teaching strategies can advance social change.