Forensic

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A threat actor has brute forced a Domain Administrator account via RDP. They did this by running a Meterpreter reverse shell and a RPD proxy via Tor on a Domain Controller. Management wants details as soon as possible. IT needs indicators of compromise (IOCs). Security wants to know the next moves of the bad actors and who they are likely to be. You realize you need to construct a timeline of events to structure your investigation to provide these answers. Based on what you have learned in this class, and research that you gain from credible sources in the Library or online, write a report to management on the following:

Explain the significance of timeline creation and analysis in incident response and forensic analysis.

Answer the following: How does timeline analysis contribute to the analysis of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used in an attack? How do TTPs help identify the bad actors? Your paper should assess the development of timelines and TTPs and draw on key points from your research to justify your views.

The complete essay should be no less than 3 double-spaced pages, conforming to current APA style guidelines. Be sure to reference at least three sources outside of the course book. Ensure that the paper has a complete introduction, main body, conclusion, and reference page.

Final Project for FLOVODOH

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You work as a security administrator of a large department store chain or choose another large corporation of your choosing. You believe that there has been a breach in the VPN where an employee has stolen data using a personal laptop along with using the company assignment computer. You review the logs from the IDS, remote access systems, and, file servers and confirm this belief. Your employer wishes to gain access to the personal laptop used for the breach to determine the full extent of the data stolen. The guilty employee’s lawyer claims that the laptop is not identifiable. 

  • Create a formal document to the CEO of the company to account for your findings, tools used to solve the breach and what steps will be taken to prevent this type of breach from happening again. 
  • You will also need to create a press release to the Public regarding this breach. 
  • Create a disaster recovery plan for the employees and vendors in case of a breach.  
  • Things to consider: What would best be used to identify the specific laptop used for the theft? How would you acquire the identifying information? List some items that would NOT be useful to identify the specific computer used by the insider.

Google in China!

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Please follow the grading criteria. Thank you!!!

Case Analysis—Google in China  By the due date assigned.  Governments play an important role in business decisions and business operations. The case study in this assignment provides a fascinating view of the business environment in China.  Read the following case study:
•Google in China: Finding Creative Solutions to Cultural Differences  Analyze the case. In a 3- to 4-page case analysis, address the following questions:
•What is the basic situation described in the case? Summarize the Google experience.
•There are many cultural differences between the US and China, one highlighted in the paper is on censorship. Discuss the meaning of the Pew Internet & American Life Project about internet censorship in China.
•What do you see as potential issues with the Chinese policy of censorship when it comes to access of information?
•Hofstede’s cultural dimensions model present an interesting way to evaluate the cultural differences between societies. Using the information in the article and Chapter 2 of your text discuss how use of such a tool would be of benefit to business, especially in a country such as China.
•Google’s philosophy of “do no evil” seems to be greatly challenged by the Chinese policy of censorship. Present an argument either for or against Google’s chosen course of action.

Grading Criteria:

Case analysis:

1. Described the basic situation presented in the case. Summarized the Google experience.

2. Discussed the meaning of the Pew Internet & American Life Project about internet censorship in China.

3. Explained potential issues with the Chinese policy of censorship when it comes to access of information?

4. Disussed how use of such a tool would be of benefit to business, especially in a country such as China.

5. Presented an argument either for or against Google’s chosen course of action.

6. Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

2 PAGES OF WRITTEN TEXT! PLAGIARISM FREE

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Principles of Terrorism       

MUST HAVE A ABSTRACT ON THE SECOND PAGE BY ITSELF

Hawala System 1.In a well-written paper: 

 Suppose you work in the U.S. Treasury Department as an anti-terrorist funding expert? 

What challenges would the Hawala system present to you? What would you need to do in order to track the funds? 

 Make sure your discussion reflects themes in Chapters 3 through 4 of our textbook.  

The first page of your paper will be a cover sheet correctly formatted according to APA guidelines. 

The second page will include an Abstract. 

 This paper will use 1-inch margins, Times New Roman 12-point font, and double spacing. 

The citations for each article MUST be correctly formatted according to APA guidelines.

 Do NOT use an automated citation manager to perform this function. Do it manually for this assignment and check your formatting against available APA resources.   

Excluding the cover page and references, this paper must be at least 2 pages of written text. 

Only COMPLETE paragraphs consisting of an introductory sentence, a full explanation of key points supported with properly cited sources, and a concluding sentence may be used. 

Only use published articles from academic texts, such as those found at scholar.google.com or accessed through your Grantham University EBSCO host account (not Wikipedia). 

 The entire paper must be your original work. It may not include quotes and at no time should text be copied and pasted.

Touchstone 2.2: Informative Essay Draft

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ASSIGNMENT: Select one of the following writing prompts and draft a 3-5 page (approximately 800-1300 words) informative essay. As a part of your completed draft, complete the color coding activity described below. In addition, answer the “Think About Your Writing” questions on a separate sheet of paper and include it with your draft submission.

Note: Touchstone 3 will be a revision of the draft that you submit for Touchstone 2.2.

Sample Image Analysis Essay: Prompt A
Sample Extended Definition Essay: Prompt B In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any recycled work will be sent back with a 0, and you will be given one attempt to redo the Touchstone.

A. Instructions

Choose one of the following prompts for your informative essay.

PROMPT A: IMAGE ANALYSIS: Although we look at print advertisements every day, we often do not consider the ways in which they affect us. Visual images in ads can influence and persuade us, so it is important to evaluate them critically to understand their meanings. Good image analysis involves examination of the components of an image to gain an understanding of the whole.

Select an advertisement to analyze. The advertisement you choose should be directed towards a specific audience. To identify the intended audience, think about the members of the potential audience for the advertisement that you have chosen. Who are they? Ads for a beauty product, for example, may be aimed at young girls; ads for a deodorant might target men; a diaper commercial is likely intended for new parents; ads for cruise trips might be aimed at retirees. You can use any academically-appropriate advertisement to complete this assignment, as long as its intended audience is clearly identified.

Your thesis must inform the reader of your topic and purpose. Because you are writing in the informative mode, use objective language and a neutral point of view.

Draft an analytical essay that examines the audience, context, and purpose of the advertising image you’ve chosen. Read the article by Jenna Pack titled “Breaking Down an Image” found in the “Model Informative Essays tutorial for ideas about how to write an image analysis. Your analysis should lead to a conclusion about the ad’s effectiveness, based on examination of its components. Include the image with your draft.

PROMPT B: EXTENDED DEFINITION: Define or redefine one of the following words:

  • Family
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Art
  • Beauty

In your draft, briefly explain how society, or the dictionary, defines the word you’ve selected, and then explain your unique or extended definition of the word. Provide examples and explanations to support your definition. Your thesis must inform your readers of your new definition and, because you are writing in the informative mode, you must use objective language.

Draft an extended definition essay that defines or redefines a word or concept. Read the article by Dan Richards titled “Digital Ethics” found in the “Model Informative Essays tutorial for ideas about how to write an extended definition essay.

B. Think About Your Writing

As a part of your completed draft, complete the color coding activity and include answers to all of the questions below your draft.

PART 1: Color Coding Activity

Using the color codes provided, evaluate your draft as follows:

  • Use red text to indicate your thesis statement.
  • Use green text to indicate the topic sentence of each body paragraph.

PART 2: Questions

1. What is the significance of your essay? Why should readers care about what you have written? (2-3 sentences) Sophia says: Think about why you decided to analyze this particular image, or why you picked the word you chose to define. Your interest in in your subject matter should be clear to readers.

2. Which areas of your draft do you think will benefit most from revision? (2-3 sentences) Sophia says: Consider the organization, style, focus, development, and conventions of your draft. Which areas did you struggle to complete?

3. Consider the strengths and weaknesses of your writing. How can you capitalize on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses in future essays? (3-4 sentences) Sophia says: Think about what was easy about writing the draft, and what was more difficult. For example, if you write paragraphs with strong topic sentences, but repeatedly use the same type of sentence to provide supporting details, you can improve your paragraphs by varying sentence structure.

C. Informative Draft Guidelines

DIRECTIONS: Refer to the checklist below throughout the writing process. Do not submit your Touchstone until your draft meets all of the guidelines.

Essay Prompt: Image Analysis

❒ If you chose the image analysis prompt, have you analyzed and interpreted – and not just described – the ad’s design?
❒ Have you made conclusions about the audience and effectiveness of the ad?
❒ Did you include the image in your draft?
❒ Did you complete the color-coding activity?
❒ Is your draft 800-1300 words long?

Essay Prompt: Extended Definition

❒ If you chose the extended definition prompt, did you indicate how society defines the word you selected, and then explain your definition (or an extended definition) of it?
❒ Have you included examples and explanations to support your definition?
❒ Did you complete the color-coding activity?
❒ Is your draft 800-1300 words long?

Working Thesis

❒ Have you included a clear, focused, and detailed thesis statement?
❒ Does your thesis state the topic and purpose of your essay?
❒ Is your thesis a single sentence, and is it located in the introductory paragraph?

Focus and Organization

❒ Is there an adequate number of body paragraphs, each with a clear topic sentence?
❒ Is there a conclusion paragraph that makes a concluding statement?
❒ Are your draft paragraphs sequenced properly?
❒ Have you used transitions to connect ideas between sentences and paragraphs?
❒ Can your draft be described as having a good flow?
❒ Does your draft have a clear focus?
❒ Are all supporting details relevant?

Style and Tone

❒ Is the tone of your draft unbiased and informative?
❒ Is it clear that the purpose of your essay is to inform readers about your topic?
❒ Have you carefully considered your word choices?

Conventions

❒ Have you checked your draft for grammatical errors?
❒ Have you used Spell-Check or another method to check spelling?
❒ Have you punctuated your draft correctly?

Before You Submit

❒ Have you included your name, date, and course at the top left of the page?
❒ Have you completed the “Think About Your Writing” questions and color coding activity?
❒ Is your draft between three and five pages long (approximately 800-1300 words)

D. Scoring

Your draft will be scored according to the Touchstone 2.2 Rubric, which considers required elements for either the analysis essay or the definition essay, the thesis statement, organization, style and tone, focus, conventions, completion of the color-coding activity and answers to the “Think About your Writing” questions above.

Week 8 Assignment – Tax Methods and Financial Reports

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 PLEASE READ IN ITS’S ENTIRETY!!!

  1. Your goal is to compare the three major forms of corporate organizations: partnerships, S corporations, and corporations. You will then select a domestic organization, identify its entity type, and describe how the organization’s tax methods are detailed in its financial report. 
    Instructions
    Write a 4–5 page paper in which you do the following: 

    • Use your textbook, the Internet, Internal Revenue Service | An Official Website of the United States Government, and Strayer Library to research the three major forms of corporate organizations: partnerships, S corporations, and corporations.
    • Compare and contrast the tax rules and treatment applicable to those three forms of organization and the major way in which the tax treatment affects the shareholders or partners.
    • Explain at least two reasons why a business owner might opt for one form of organization over another. Provide support for your rationale.
    • Identify two sources of tax guidance (for example, IRS code, Revenue Procedure) for each form of organization and how it defines a component of the tax policy for that form of organization.
    • Research an organization by identifying its entity type (corporation, s-corporation, or partnership) and describe how that organization’s tax methods are detailed in their financial reports.
    • Use the Strayer Library to find at least three academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites are not considered quality references.
    • This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
      The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment:
    • Evaluate the tax rules and treatment applicable to organizations and their impact on shareholders.
  2. By submitting this paper, you agree: (1) that you are submitting your paper to be used and stored as part of the SafeAssign™ services in accordance with the Blackboard Privacy Policy; (2) that your institution may use your paper in accordance with your institution’s policies; and (3) that your use of SafeAssign will be without recourse against Blackboard Inc. and its affiliates.

Make a Preparation Outline(Persuasive Speech)

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 Course: Public Speaking

This assignment requires you to persuade your audience about a particular topic. You will become a student activist on campus who aims to solve a collective problem. Your purpose is to influence the beliefs, attitudes, values, and acts of your audience. Try to balance ethos, pathos, and logos in your speech.

Please follow these steps:

  1. Select a social issue and conduct research about it (i.e., school-to-prison pipeline).
  2. Define your intended audience (i.e., professors, administrators, or peers) and conduct your audience analysis accordingly.
  3. Define your goal. As a student activist, what do you aim to achieve by giving this speech to your intended audience? What should your intended audience do in order to solve the problem?
  4. Will you use a proposition of value, fact, or policy?
  5. Write a preparation outline using Monroe’s Motivated Sequence to organize your speech (here you can download a template). You have a minimum of four and a maximum of five minutes to give your speech. Likewise, indicate your topic, goals, type of proposition, and intended audience. Submit it here on Blackboard.
  6. Most importantly, enjoy the experience!
    Sample of Preparation Outline using Monroe’s Motivated Sequence

Note: A Sample Persuasive Preparation Outline and the template for the work are attached. You should complete this activity by completing the template.

Week 3 Assignment – Purpose of Corrections: Punishment, or Rehabilitation? Overview

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 To successfully complete this assignment, you will need to:

According to your textbook, the United States has experienced a corrections explosion over the past 40 years, despite a decrease in serious crime during this same period. Consider statistics such as these. Since 1980, the:

  • Number of people on probation has increased by nearly 300%.
  • Prison population has increased by more than 400%.
  • Federal imprisonment rate has increased 500% (Schmalleger, 2021).

Even though we are in the midst of a period of mass incarceration in the United States, we know that incarceration doesn’t work. Consider this quote from the video, Psychology, Criminality, and Incarceration in America: “Prisons don’t work. People do not get corrected in today’s prisons. Convicts come out worse than when they went in and are even a greater threat to society than before” (Lary, 2010). The Bureau of Justice Statistics has evidence supporting this sentiment. The 2018 Update on Prisoner Recidivism states an estimated:

  • 68% of released prisoners were arrested within 3 years.
  • 79% within 6 years.
  • 83% within 9 years (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2018).

This assignment will give you the opportunity to:

  • Explore the U.S. correctional system’s role. Is it to punish those involved? Or is it to rehabilitate them?
  • Consider the correctional system’s current state in terms of punishment or rehabilitation.
  • Analyze specific improvements that appear promising.

Instructions

After reviewing the resources provided in the overview, you are to write a 2–3 page paper in which you:

  1. Distinguish among the four functions of corrections: retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation.
    • Be sure to illustrate the distinctions with current and/or historical examples.
  2. Summarize the arguments for and criticisms of each of the four corrections functions.
  3. Explain the current state of each of the four corrections functions in the United States.
  4. Select a minimum of three corrections improvements included in the Psychology, Criminality, and Incarceration in America video that appear promising and explain why you think so.
  5. Use three sources to support your writing.
    • Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate.
    • Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment.
    • Access the Strayer University Library or review library guides for help with research, writing, and citation.

Formatting

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Note the following:

  • The preferred method is for your paper to be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
  • Include a cover page containing the assignment title, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
  • Include a source list page. Citations and source list entries must follow SWS format. The source list page is not included in the required page length.

Discussion 2: Your Leadership Profile

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Discussion 2: Your Leadership Profile

Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, appointment does not guarantee leadership skills.

How can you evaluate your own leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership. In this Discussion, you will complete Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This assessment will identify your personal strengths, which have been shown to improve motivation, engagement, and academic self-conference. Through this assessment, you will discover your top five themes—which you can reflect upon and use to leverage your talents for optimal success and examine how the results relate to your leadership traits.

To Prepare:

Complete the StrengthsFinder assessment instrument, per the instructions found in this Module’s Learning Resources.

Please Note: This Assessment will take roughly 30 minutes to complete.

  • Once you have completed your assessment, you will receive your “Top 5 Signature Themes of Talent” on your screen.
  • Click the Download button below Signature Theme Report, and then print and save the report. We also encourage you to select the Apply tab to review action items.

NOTE: Please keep your report. You will need your results for future courses. Technical Issues with Gallup:
If you have technical issues after registering, please contact the Gallup Education Support group by phone at +1.866-346-4408. Support is available 24 hours/day from 6:00 p.m. Sunday U.S. Central Time through 5:00 p.m. Friday U.S. Central Time.

  • Reflect on the results of your Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits.
  • Download your Signature Theme Report to submit for this Discussion.
By Day 3 of Week 5

Post a brief description of your results from the StrengthsFinder assessment. Then, briefly describe two core values, two strengths, and two characteristics that you would like to strengthen based on the results of your StrengthsFinder assessment. Be specific. Note: Be sure to attach your Signature Theme Report to your Discussion post.

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by making recommendations for how they might strengthen the leadership behaviors profiled in their StrengthsFinder assessment, or by commenting on lessons to be learned from the results that can be applied to personal leadership philosophies and behaviors.

Speech Assignment

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 Take a look of the speeches below. Based on the reading from chapter 10, what do you think of the speeches and how to effectively communicate with an audience? What are the best ways to introduce yourself? What do you think of the techniques given? 

Videos Link

Classmates Answers need to give feedback

1.  After reading through chapter 10 and watching these two speeches. I think the speakers perfectly connected to the audience. one used humor and the other used personal experiences. The best way for someone to introduce themselves is, to be honest as explained in the first video. I think the techniques given are very useful and versatile in the world of giving speeches and in real-world scenarios. 

2.  

For the first one it is about our personal presentation. Sometimes it is difficult to tell others who we really are. We want to be safe but hide who we really are. We don’t need to hide your true identity and purpose. We need to express it with the truth without having to tell lies to see ourselves well in front of other people.

In the second “The seven secrets of the great speakers”. Richard Greene is something to admire. He presented the speech with all the components of it through help, examples, naming the seven secrets, but most importantly, and what he said I liked very much; The most important thing is that people need to speak passionately about the things that turn us on that we like. Speaking in front of thousands of people sometimes scares us but you have to confront those fears and say if I can do it because I’m going to talk to them or teach them and give them examples.