Category: Cybersecurity

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Competencies

4042.5.1 : Cellular and Mobile Technologies

The graduate determines how to address vulnerabilities and threats in cellular and mobile network technologies.

4042.5.2 : Wireless Technologies

The graduate determines how to address vulnerabilities and threats in wireless architectures.

Introduction

As wireless and mobile technologies continue to grow in presence and popularity, the world is becoming more and more connected. Unfortunately, this also means that devices and networks are becoming more and more vulnerable to outside threats. Businesses must identify and mitigate these vulnerabilities and threats in order to protect employees personal information and ensure the organization is secure from passive leaking of proprietary information.

In this task you will assume the role of an IT professional who is responsible for identifying wireless and mobile vulnerabilities, as outlined in the scenario below. You will then present your findings and recommend solutions to mitigate these risks and prevent future threats.

Scenario

You are a network professional on the IT team at Alliah Company, a new but fast-growing social media provider. One year ago, Alliah launched a social media website aimed at young professionals. The company also released a mobile app for accessing the site from cellular devices. Alliah was able to launch its website with money generated by a crowd-funded campaign, but most of the funds were spent on the site and app development, with relatively little money (and time) devoted to the internal office network infrastructure.

Alliah has 35 full-time employees, all of whom have offices or shared work spaces in a three-story building that serves as the company headquarters. The building is an old warehouse that was converted for office use and is approximately 10,000 square feet. Currently, the employees occupy only two floors; the third floor is vacant and available for expansion.

The Alliah WLAN has a gigabit managed switch, a multiservice wireless LAN controller, and seven wireless access points strategically located to provide coverage to office staff. One access point services a large back patio area for employee use. The network is protected by a firewall. The Alliah website servers are located in a data center 100 miles from Alliah headquarters.

Five employees are account representatives who are on the road at least 80 percent of the time, and each rep has a company-issued laptop, tablet, and smartphone. They use a large, shared office in the headquarters building when they are not traveling.

Employees use company-owned computers that connect to the WLAN, and, in an effort to control costs during the launch, Alliah has a bring your own device (BYOD) policy.

The IT staff consists of five employees; three are devoted to website maintenance, one manages the headquarters computers and network, and another employee assists with the website and the office network. IT staff uses wired Ethernet connections to remotely access the website servers.

The Alliah website is successful, attracting more and more visitors each month. Jennifer, the CEO, anticipates hiring more employees and is considering a strategy that would take the company public within a few years. In preparation, she wants to ensure that Alliahs wireless networking infrastructure is highly secure, especially because it may need to grow quickly in a short period of time, and she wants to understand the security risks the company faces. She also wants to decide if Alliah should continue allowing BYOD or restrict network access to company-owned devices only, or if a compromise solution is available.

Requirements

Your submission must represent your original work and understanding of the course material. Most performance assessment submissions are automatically scanned through the WGU similarity checker. Students are strongly encouraged to wait for the similarity report to generate after uploading their work and then review it to ensure Academic Authenticity guidelines are met before submitting the file for evaluation.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A. Describe two WLAN vulnerabilities that present risks for Alliah, based on the details in the scenario.

B. Describe two mobile vulnerabilities that present risks for Alliah, based on the details in the scenario.

C. Summarize the steps for mitigating each identified WLAN and mobile vulnerability, including the specific tools or documentation that will be needed for mitigation.

D. Recommend preventive measures to maintain the security posture of WLAN and mobile environments in a small business, such as Alliah. Reference federal, state, or industry regulations that justify these measures.

E. Recommend a solution for the companys BYOD approach, including research to justify your recommendation.

F. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

G. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

n accordance with the Syllabus, for your first written assignment, choose a scholarly journal article on a contemporary national security challenge within cyberspace and conduct a literature review, meaning, (1) summarize the main points of the article, (2) then assess the utility of the article on informing your understanding of the issue.

Did the author succeed in convincing you this is a national security challenge, and do you agree with their premise?

Do not be afraid to be critical or disagree. Be sure to look for holes in the argument or identify assumptions the author may have made and whether or not the author identified any counter arguments and accounted for those positions.

This assignment is meant to build on what you have already learned in CRJ 302 and CRJ 303: analyzing different viewpoints, critiquing various perspectives, analyzing how scientific information enters into the policy making process.

Further, this assignment is also designed to help build a foundation for what you will be doing throughout this course and act as some benefit for those of you that may be thinking about graduate school and the type of assignments you will have there.

If you have any questions or would like to run the article you are choosing by me before going forward, please email me. I am more than happy to provide feedback and ensure you are set up for success.

• Specifications: No less than 2 pages, and no more than 3 pages. Times New Roman 12pt font, double spaced, 1 inch margins.
• Footnotes or endnotes, whatever you wish, just as long as it is cited.
• Citing should be done in accordance with APA formatting. For more information on APA formatting view this
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• Assignments should be submitted as a Word document (.doc or .docx) or an Adobe PDF file (.pdf).

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Write about cybersecurity risk management strategy.

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Please use the link that is povided to do the essay, and list as the only reference. Please use the link below:

Develop Introductory Statement and Justify Selected Interest Areas

Instructions

Background

For this assignment, you will use the university library and online search engines to continue your research in the topic area of IT policy and strategy as part of IT governance framework. You may use government or academic portals whose policies are available online as well. Incorporate your Assignment 1 feedback to develop your chosen global case study. What is the point of your research? What are you trying to find out, and why do you think its important for others to know about this information too? The introduction should include a summary of what will be discussed in detail later on.

Instructions

Develop your chosen global case study identified in Assignment 1 by creating your introductory statement. Justify your selected interest area for your domain of study according to examples and frameworks that were reviewed in lessons one and two. Integrate applied policy and strategy cases and issues for managing technology in global organizations. Write an introductory statement that highlights and justifies your selected interest area.

Your introduction should:

1. Introduce your topic.

2. Give necessary background and context.

3. Justify your selected interest area.

4. Integrate applied policy and strategy cases.

To guide your introduction, consider:

Who could have an interest in the topic (i.e., consumers, lawmakers, policymakers, etc.)?

How much is already known about the topic?

What is missing from this current knowledge?

What new insights will your research contribute?

Why is your chosen topic important?

What is the scope of your research?

What are the limitations of your research?

What is your research aim?