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2.4 Threat Analysis (Phase 1)
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Getting Started

In this assignment, you will develop an initial cybersecurity analysis that will become a part of the final project due in the last workshop of this course.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

• Describe and classify the types of threats to an organization’s infrastructure and data.
• Select appropriate security frameworks to design a comprehensive security posture.
• Implement strategies to mitigate threats and contain any attacks that may infect the computing environment.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Phase 1 of Final Project: Develop a comprehensive analysis that identifies threats and vulnerabilities to the information systems infrastructure and organizational data.
3. You may use a fictitious company, one that you researched on the Internet, or your own workplace (although you should use an alias for the company name).
4. Conduct Internet research for formats that are used for a threat analysis.
   1. Include a short executive summary for this assignment, although you will need to revise this summary for the final paper.
   2. The threat analysis should be approximately 4 to 5 pages in length, in APA format, and double-spaced for the narrative.
   3. You may use tables or other graphic representations.
   4. The paper should include references to any material used in preparing the paper. References are to be cited within your paper as well as on the Reference page using APA format.
   5. You should use online resources to develop your plans; just make sure to cite these sources. All written work should be your own.
   6. Consider using Grammarly before you submit your paper. Grammarly checks grammar, provides suggestions for corrections, and reviews references.

 

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4.4 Mitigation Strategy (Phase 2)
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Getting Started

In this assignment, you will develop a mitigation strategy that will later be utilized in the final project, due in the last week of the course.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

• Select appropriate security frameworks to design a comprehensive security posture.
• Implement strategies to mitigate threats and contain any attacks that may infect the computing environment.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Phase 2 of Final Project: Provide a comprehensive mitigation strategy based on the threat analysis done in Assignment 2.4.
3. As mentioned in Assignment 2.4, you may use a fictitious company, one that you researched on the Internet, or your own workplace (with an alias used for the company name).
4. Conduct Internet research for formats that are used for developing and categorizing a security mitigation strategy.
   1. Include a short executive summary for this assignment, which you will revise later for use in the final paper.
   2. The mitigation strategy should be approximately 4 to 5 pages in length, in APA format, and double-spaced for the narrative.
   3. You may use tables or other graphic representations; however, these additions to the paper should not be included in the page count.
   4. The paper should include references to any material used in preparing the paper. You should use online resources to develop your plans; just make sure to cite these sources. All written work should be your own.
   5. Consider using Grammarly before you submit your paper. Grammarly checks grammar, provides suggestions for corrections, and reviews references.

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5.3 Business Continuity Plan (Phase 3)
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Getting Started

This assignment covers the topics of disaster recovery and business continuity concepts and practices, as well as developing an understanding of risk and change management, and concepts related to the development of secure software.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

• Select appropriate security frameworks to design a comprehensive security posture.
• Implement strategies to mitigate threats and contain any attacks that may infect the computing environment.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Phase 3 of Final Project: Write a two- to four-page paper that addresses and reflects upon the following:
   1. Describe the concepts and practices of designing and implementing a business continuity and disaster recovery plan.
   2. How might you test a disaster recovery plan?
   3. What should a risk management plan include?
   4. How does a change management plan impact the overall risk strategy?
   5. What are the important concepts that should be included in a security plan for the development of secure software?
3. Support your writing with at least two outside sources. The paper should be in APA format.
4. Consider using Grammarly before you submit your paper. Grammarly checks grammar, provides suggestions for corrections, and reviews references.

 

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6.4 Final Paper (Phase 4)
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Getting Started

Phase 4 of the Final Project will provide the student with the opportunity to put into practice the concepts covered in this course. This includes identifying threats to information systems assets (including data), developing mitigation strategies, and assuring compliance to policies set forth.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

• Describe and classify the types of threats to an organization’s infrastructure and data.
• Select appropriate security frameworks to design a comprehensive security posture.
• Implement strategies to mitigate threats and contain any attacks that may infect the computing environment.
• Design a comprehensive training and awareness plan to educate the user community on security policies and procedures.

Background Information

In the previous assignments in this course, you submitted a security threat analysis, a plan to mitigate those threats, and a business continuity plan summary. For this final paper/proposal, you will integrate work from the previous assignments into this assignment.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Phase 4 of the Final Project is a proposal to provide a comprehensive security plan for your organization.
3. As the final step of this proposal, you will prepare a comprehensive Security Awareness and business continuity plan (taking what you did in Assignment 5.3 and expanding upon the summary) that will be used throughout the organization. The plan should address awareness from the perspective of employee expectations. The business continuity plan should address the requirements needed to recover from potential disasters, whether through natural causes (weather, fire, etc.) or a security breach. The paper should be outlined as follows:
   1. Executive Summary/Introduction
   2. Threat Analysis (Assignment 2.4)
   3. Mitigation Strategies (Assignment 4.4)
   4. Business Continuity Plan (Assignment 5.3 was an overview)
   5. Security Awareness Program Plan/Overview
   6. Conclusion
4. Provide transitions between these six sections. The total length of the paper should be 15–20 pages. You may use graphics or other features within your paper; however, these do not count toward the 15–20 page total.
5. Make sure the paper is double-spaced and in  APA format. The paper should have a minimum of five references, which should be cited correctly within the paper as well as on the Reference page using APA format.
6. Consider using Grammarly before you submit your paper. Grammarly checks grammar, provides suggestions for corrections, and reviews references.

Java Programming Assignment 3: Expressions, class Methods, and Parameter passing

Problem Summary

A mortgage company would like you to help compute mortgage payments for its customers, when given a mortgage loan.

The mortgage company currently only issues 30-year mortgage loans, and always requires a 10% down payment to obtain a mortgage loan. Therefore, the Loan Amount will always be 90% of the Purchase Price (the price paid for the home).

To protect its interests, the mortgage company handles paying the property taxes and insurance on the property. Therefore, the monthly mortgage payment consists of three parts:

 property taxes

 insurance

 principle and interest for the loan

The property tax portion is computed as follows:

Home’s Assessed Value = 85% of Purchase Price

Annual Property Taxes = 0.63% of Home’s Assessed Value + $35.00 admin fee

For example, if the home’s purchase price was $101,000.00

The assessed value would be $85,850.00

The annual property taxes would be $540.86 + 35.00 = $575.86

And the monthly property taxes would be $47.99

The insurance portion is computed as follows:

Annual Insurance Premium = 0.49% of Purchase Price Monthly premiums will be rounded to the nearest dollar.

For example, if the home’s purchase price was $101,000.00

The annual insurance premium would be $494.90 And the monthly insurance cost would be $41.00

NOTES:

 The tax and insurance percentages are less than 1%, so make sure you enter the values correctly for calculations (i.e. 0.49% == 0.0049)

 Both annual property taxes and annual insurance premiums must be divided by 12 to obtain a monthly cost.

The principle and interest portion is computed as follows:

Monthly Loan Payment = factor x Monthly Interest Rate x Loan Amount factor – 1 where

factor = exp( Loan Length In Months x log(1 + Monthly Interest Rate) );

Predefined exp and log mathematical functions are located in the built-in java.lang.Math class.

The monthly interest rate will be 1/12th of the loan’s annual interest rate. Be sure to also convert the percent entered by user (e.g. 5%) to an amount that can be used in calculations (e.g. 0.05).

For example, if the home’s purchase price was $101,000.00 and the annual interest was 5%:

The loan amount would be $90,900.00 (after subtracting the down payment)

The monthly interest rate would be 0.00417

The loan length would be 360 months

So the monthly loan payment would be $487.97

NOTE: For hand calculating results to test your program, the equivalent algebraic equation for factor is:

factor = (1 + MonthlyInterestRate) TermInMonths

Overview of Program

In your last two Alice assignments, you:

 Created programs that were broken down into multiple methods.

 Used variables to store user input and calculation results.

 Used parameters and return values to pass information between methods.

This assignment will require you to do the same things in Java. This program will contain:

 A main method to read the inputs from the user, display some values, and call the other methods.

 A method (1) to display a description of what the program will do.

 A method (2) to compute the monthly property tax..

 A method (3) to compute the monthly insurance premium.

 A method (4) to compute the monthly principle and interest loan payment.

 A method (5) to compute and display the results of the program.

Program Requirements

Given the price paid for a home and the annual interest rate for a 30-year loan (both read from the user), compute the individual parts of a monthly mortgage payment, along with the total, as follows:

1. Create only one Java class for this program, named as follows:

LastnameJavaClassName For example: SmithMortgagCalculator

2. Implement the following methods, within this class:

NOTE: All of these methods should have descriptive names that include a verb, describing the methods action.

Method 1: A method to display an explanation of what the program will do to the user.

o This method will not have any parameters or a return value.

Method 2: A method to compute the monthly property tax. This method will:

o Have 1 parameter: the purchase price of the home

o Define and use three local (non-static) constants, that contain the values for:

 the percentage of the purchase price used to compute the home’s assessed value

 the percentage of the home’s assessed value used to compute the property tax

 the dollar amount of the admin fee

o Compute the monthly property tax using the formulas on page 1

o Return a double value: the monthly property tax payment

Method 3: A method to compute the monthly insurance premium. This method will:

o Have 1 parameter: the purchase price of the home

o Define and use a local (non-static) constant that contains the percentage of the purchase price used to compute the insurance premium.

o Compute the monthly insurance premium using the formulas on page 1

o Use the round method in the java.Math class to round the monthly insurance premium to a whole dollar amount.

o Return a double value: the rounded monthly insurance premium

Method 4: A method to compute the monthly principle and interest loan payment for a 30-year loan. This method will:

o Have 2 parameters:

 the loan amount

 the annual interest rate for the loan

o Define and use a local (non-static) constant that is set to the value of:

 the number of months in the loan period

o Use the exp and log methods from in the java.lang.Math class to calculate the factor

o Compute the monthly principle and interest loan payment using the formulas on page 1

o Return a double value: the monthly loan payment

Method 5: A method to compute and display the results, with no return value. This method will:

o Have 3 parameters:

 the monthly tax payment

 the monthly insurance premium

 the monthly principle and interest loan payment

o Calculate the total monthly mortgage payment

o Use the println and printf statements to:

 Display the header “Monthly Mortgage Payment”

 Display each of the parameter values (the three parts of the mortgage payment), to 2 decimal places, indented under the header and lined up on the decimal points

 Display a dashed addition line below the parts of the mortgage payment.

 Then display the total monthly mortgage payment. This total also be displayed to 2 decimal places, indented under the header, and should line up with the figures above.

3. Within the main method, write the Java code to:

NOTE: The main method will be defined first, at the top of the class, before all the other methods.

 Define and use a local (non-static) constant to hold the percentage of a home’s purchase price that a loan will be issued for (used to compute loan amount), set to 90%.

Call method 1 to display the program description.

 Prompt for (using descriptive prompts) and read the user inputs (home’s purchase price and loan’s annual interest rate).

Sample Display and Input from main method

 Display a few blank lines to separate the input from the output.

 Calculate and display the loan amount to 2 decimal places.

 Call all the calculation methods (methods 2 – 4) to compute the three parts of the monthly mortgage payment, and save the results returned from each.

 Call the method 5 to display the final results.

Sample Output from method 5

Output must display exactly as shown: All decimal points in the payment components and total payment must line up with each other. And the descriptions must be indented 2 spaces.

4. You must also define and use:

o Local variables for each input or computed value, defined using descriptive names and appropriate data types.

WARNING: The methods must be implemented exactly as specified in these requirements.

hi ! I would like to know if you can make an macroeconomics work for me. the paper should explain the topic and its relevance in terms of economics.

 The writing assignment should explain the topic and connect the topic to macroeconomics. Topics include:

1) China and United States trade relations, 2) Status of Labor Unions in the United States, 3) History of the Federal Reserve, 4) Biography of Ben Bernanke, 5) United States National Debt, 6) Economics of Social Security – Solvency, 7) Education and Wages, 8) Great Recession, 9) Housing Bubble – Causes, 10) Sharing Economy, 11) European Union, 12) Significance of Olympics on a Nation’s Economy, 13) Smoking and its Economic Impacts, 14) Affordable Care Act, 15) Walmart: Pros and Cons for the Economy, 16) Facebook: Revenue and Tracking, 17) Apple Economics, 18) Outsourcing, 19)Income Distribution: Income Inequality, Income gaps, 20) Green Economy, 21) Poverty: How to solve world poverty?, 22) Causes of Poverty in the U.S., 23) Biography of John Maynard Keynes, 24) Biography of Adam Smith, 25) Biography of Milton Friedman, 26) Minimum wage: Effects on the Economy, 27) DeBeers Diamond Company – Influence on Diamond market, 28) Environmental economics, 29) Reaganomics – Supply-side economics, 30) FPL – monopoly, 31) Medicare, 32) Biography on Janet Yellen, 33) Media and Advertising, 34) Energy Policy, 35) Economy of Ireland, 36) Economy of Italy, 37) Economy of Greece, 38) Economy of Brazil, 39) Economy of China, 40) Economy of India, 41) Economy of Germany, 42) Economy of South Korea, 43) Tax System, 44) Gold Standard, 45) Great Depression, 46) Bitcoin, 47) 3D Printing, 48) Uber, 49) Brexit, 50) NAFTA, 51) Amazon

Course Overview:

This module examines various ethical interactions of companies with different stakeholders. A company markets its products to its customer base. Marketing often raises ethical questions.

If you ask a chief executive officer (CEO) what are his or her goals for the company, the CEO may tell you many things. The real answer is that the CEO wants to maximize the wealth of the shareholders. Because the moment the shareholders (usually a number of large institutional shareholders) feel that the CEO is not maximizing their wealth, they can remove the CEO.

Companies maximize wealth by increasing sales, profits, or market share, which they achieve by developing new products, improving their current products, and advertising their products.

Where is the line drawn between accuracy and puffery? Webster defines puffery as “exaggerated commendation especially for promotional purposes” (“Puffery,” 2011). Puffery serves to “puff up” an exaggerated image of what is being described and is especially featured in testimonials. Many consumer advocates complain that puffery should be illegal and that there should be truth in advertising.

Puffery. (2011). Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puffery 

Module Readings and Assignment:

Complete the following readings early in the module:

• Module overview
• From your course textbook, Law & Ethics in the Business Environment, 8th  read the following chapter:
  • Marketing and Technology: Choice and Manipulation
• From the Argosy University online library resources, read the following articles:
  • Pohl, M. (2010). Three little pigs of deceptive advertising. Pharmaceutical Executive, 30(9), 30, 32. (ProQuest document ID:
    757065267) Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/757065267?accountid=34899

Assignment Instructions:

Assignment: Required Assignment—Balancing Company Interests vs. the Public Interest

 Select a topic and work on the relevant tasks for this assignment. 

Topic A:

The United States has still not recovered from the recent wave of mortgage defaults and foreclosures. Experts predict that the housing market will take years to recover in some locations due to a variety of factors. There are numerous publications that detail how the problem developed. Many of the reasons for the collapse of the housing market have ethical implications.

Tasks:

• Using the Argosy University online library resources or the Internet, research the financial collapse of the housing market.
• Create a 10- to 12-page report discussing your findings. Explore the evidence from an ethical point of view.

Topic B:

Tasks:

• Select three or four essays from your textbook relating to your area of experience and expertise (for example, finance, accounting, or technology).
• Create a 10- to 12-page report critiquing your chosen readings.
  • Include a literature review of your chosen essays, starting with a synopsis of the major ideas and themes in each essay.
• Conduct an in-depth critique of the essays by comparing and contrasting the essential points discussed in each work.
• Include a reflective assessment of what lessons one can learn from the points brought up in the essays and how they can effectively be implemented in a typical business setting.

The following is a checklist that you can use in analyzing or critiquing your chosen essays: 

Each piece of writing is different; but, in most cases, the majority of these questions are applicable. Use these questions as a point of reference for your critique. You may also cover other relevant aspects of an essay not addressed by the critique question list below:

• Is the essay’s title a clear depiction of its content? Why or why not?
• Is the author qualified to write about the subject matter?
• What is the purpose of the essay? Is it stated clearly?
• Identify the problem statement in the essay. Does the introduction and conclusion focus clearly on the problem statement?
• Is the statement of facts (beyond commonly known facts) supported by appropriate citations in the text and/or references?
• Which ideas in the essay need further development?
• What ideas in the essay are practical enough to be implemented in a business setting and which ideas are rather impractical? Why?
• Does the essay contain discursive or irrelevant sections? If yes, what are they?
• Is the work biased in any way? Examine the author’s biases.
• Is there an idea that is common to all the essays?
• How is the essay different from the other essay(s) you are also critiquing?

 Complete the tasks pertaining to the chosen topic. 

Submission Details:

• By Saturday September 1, 2018, save your submission and submit it to the  Submissions Area. 

Turned-in on time, Grading criteria followed All assignment qualifications addressed correctly, Grading Criteria followed, Include Question followed by the answer  Reference Page Included Cover page Included, Paragraphs  Indented,  Running-head included, main heading should be centered; all  new  paragraphs should be indented;  paper should be right ragged,   not right justified; references,  should always go on a standalone  page. abstracts are not usually indented; acronyms should be spelled out when using them  for  the first time, for example HR. references as listed are APA  standard.   When you  submit your papers through turnitin.com, your overall  similarity  index  score should not be exceedingly high, with   ten to  fifteen percent  being  the maximum,  Please make sure your APA  formatting of citations. I have provided the  APA resource cite for you. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01, Please work on using literature within the span of the last 5 years,  keep in mind there should not be any one, two, or three sentence  paragraphs 

Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation