Security Regulation Compliance

This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a written paper and a PowerPoint presentation. You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for.

a. Provide an overview that will be delivered to senior management of regulatory requirements the agency needs to be aware of, including:

i. FISMA

ii. Sarbanes-Oxley Act

iii. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

iv. PCI DSS

v. HIPAA

vi. Intellectual Property Law

b. Describe the security methods and controls that need to be implemented in order to ensure compliance with these standards and regulatory requirements.

c. Describe the guidance provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and other agencies for ensuring compliance with these standards and regulatory requirements.

d. Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. 

a. Include an overview of regulatory requirements and employee responsibilities, covering:

i. FISMA

ii. Sarbanes-Oxley Act

iii. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

iv. PCI DSS

v. HIPAA

vi. Intellectual Property Law

Project Deliverable 5: Infrastructure and Security

Due Week 8 and worth 110 points

This assignment consists of two (2) sections: an infrastructure document and a revised Gantt chart or project plan. You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for. Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

The infrastructure which encompasses the network solution and security considerations is a major consideration for your company. Considering that the company will be expanding from one (1) floor to three (3) floors in the very near future you, as the CIO, are responsible for the design of the infrastructure and security protocols. You have been tasked with designing a network that is stable, redundant, and scalable. In addition, speed and reliability are important considerations. Assumptions should be drawn regarding network usage in relationship to network services and resources. All the established criteria that were set at the onset should be adhered to within your plan. The network solution that is chosen should support the conceived information system and allow for scalability. The network infrastructure will support organizational operations; therefore, a pictorial view of workstations, servers, routers, bridges, gateways, and access points should be used. In addition, access paths for Internet access should be depicted. Additionally, the security of the network should be in the forefront of your design because protecting your data is a primary consideration. 

Section 1: Infrastructure Document

1. Write a four to six (4-6) page infrastructure document in which you:
   • Justify and support the relationship between infrastructure and security as it relates to this data-collection and analysis company.
   • Present the rationale for the logical and physical topographical layout of the planned network.
   • Design a logical and physical topographical layout of the current and planned network through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
   • Illustrate the possible placement of servers including access paths to the Internet, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and firewalls. Note: Facility limitations, workstations, databases, printers, routers, switches, bridges, and access points should be considered in the illustration.
   • Create and describe a comprehensive security policy for this data-collection and analysis company that will:

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
• Include charts or diagrams created in MS Visio or Dia as an appendix of the infrastructure document. All references to these diagrams must be included in the body of the infrastructure document.

Section 2: Revised Project Plan

Use Microsoft Project to:

1. Update the project plan from Project Deliverable 4: Analytics, Interfaces, and Cloud Technology, with three to five (3-5) new project tasks each consisting of five to ten (5-10) sub-tasks.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Develop information systems-related activities to maximize the business value within and outside the organization.
• Demonstrate an understanding of existing and emerging information technologies, the functions of IS, and its impact on the organizational operations.
• Evaluate the issues and challenges associated with information systems integration.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in information systems.
• Write clearly and concisely about strategic issues and practices in the information systems domain using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

• Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Due Week 10 and worth 180 points

This assignment consists of three (3) sections: a written paper, a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and a Gantt Chart. You must submit each section as a separate file for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for.

Imagine that you have been hired as a project manager to oversee the migration of a legacy system to a cloud computing based platform within a government agency. The resources within the organization are limited in number, knowledge, and availability. This project will require outsourcing of skilled resources and expertise to move forward with the initiative. The organization is characterized by working in silos and having redundant functional resources available within many of its divisions. 

To complete this assignment, you will be required to research similar cloud migration projects and understand the resources and challenges that an information systems project of this magnitude requires. Using the concepts presented throughout the course, you will develop a project plan that will meet the project goals and requirements.

Section 1: Written Paper

Required Format (MS Word File)

• Write a ten to twelve (10-12) page paper in which you:
• • Use the Internet to research similar cloud migration projects that have been successful. Of the researched projects, recommend measurable organization values for a project of this type and include expected benefits in terms of money, percentage, or potential optimizations.
  • Write a two to three (2-3) paragraph executive summary which defines the phases and their activities that the project will require. Develop the executive summary for a senior management audience.
  • Perform a stakeholder analysis for the researched project in which you:
  • • Include all major stakeholders that the project will require.
    • Describe each stakeholder’s title, role within the project, and objectives each should meet for the project.
    • Provide details if this organization is more of a functional organization or project based. 
    • Suggest at least three (3) risks that should be monitored based on the selected organization type.
  • Produce a procurement management plan for the activities that will be required within the project in which you: 
• List the activities that will be outsourced, the skills / labor / material required, and the contract type.
• Analyze the monitoring requirements and potential pitfalls for each selected contract type.
• • Provide a scope change control method that could be used within the project management process in which you:
• Describe the review and approval process that will ensure scope control.
• Suggest at least three (3) scenarios that could resemble scope creep.
• • Perform a risk impact analysis in which you:
  • List at least ten (10) risks that could take place within this project.
  • Provide the probability for each risk (%), level of impact, and a probability impact score.
  • Prioritize your list based on the probability impact score and develop a risk response plan for the top five (5) risks.
  • Include the risk, the trigger, response, and resources required for response.
• Based on the Gantt Chart created in Section 3:
• • Explain the basis for your assumptions and constraints
  • Explain the basis for your estimates on tasks, skills, material, and equipment costs for each activity.
  • Identify the resources you used to arrive at your assumptions, constraints, and estimates.

Note: This criterion references criterion 3biii in Section 3: Gantt Chart. You will need to complete Section 3: Gantt Chart prior to completing this criterion for the written paper.

Section 1 of the assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Section 2: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Required Format (MS Project File)

• Use MS Project or an Open Source alternative, such as Open Project to:
• • Develop a hierarchical Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with defined activities and estimated budgets per activity in which you:
  • • Group each activity under each major phase.
    • Identify a control account index number for each activity. 
    • Include at least twenty to twenty-five (20-25) work packages in the WBS that show the various efforts required to complete the project.

Section 3: Gantt Chart

Require Format (MS Project File)

• Use MS Project to develop a Gantt chart in which you:
• • Group all activities (tasks) by phase, duration estimates of each activity, start and end dates, major milestones (with black diamond), resources required per activity (in terms of personnel, labor and material), activity precedence relationships, and costs per activity. 
  • Use at least (ten to fifteen) 10-15 resources in your Gantt chart.
  • For each activity:
  • • Ensure that control account index numbers match the WBS in Section 2.
    • Provide resources required in terms of labor and material, estimates of duration, and risks that each activity may have. Note: To document risks, you will need to create a new column and label column titled “Risk”.
    • Base cost estimates on research you perform on the Internet for similar tasks, skills, material, equipment, etc. Note: Be sure to explain the basis and research sources for costs in your written paper.

Note: This criterion references criterion 1g in Section 1: Written Paper. You will need to complete Section 3: Gantt Chart prior to completing the criterion for the written paper.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Initiate, specify, and prioritize information technology projects, and determine various aspects of feasibility of these projects.
• Describe the foundations of project management, including its definition, scope, and the need for project management in the modern organization.
• Explain and apply the phases of the project management life cycle.
• Develop processes that initiate technology projects, including project selection and defining project scope.
• Analyze and develop project schedules with appropriate techniques and software tools.
• Prepare strategies to manage project resources to include human resources, capital equipment, and time.
• Identify project risk, and the techniques for ensuring project risk is managed and controlled in a technology setting.
• Summarize the project procurement process including external acquisition and outsourcing.
• Design project execution activities including change control and communicating project status.
• Summarize methods to control technology projects through information tracking and cost and change control techniques.
• Develop a complete information systems project plan using project management software tools.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in information systems.
• Write clearly and concisely about Information Technology Project Management topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Imagine that you are employed as an IT project manager by a prestigious coffeemaker organization. This organization operates many coffee shops within the region and would like to promote its brand by creating a mobile application that will provide its customers with the ability to view the nearest coffee shop location within their geographical area.

As a member of the software development team, you estimate a total project cost of $150,000. You have designated control points to measure project progress. At control point 2, the following data is available:

There are various stakeholders that are interested in the progress of the project. These stakeholders include the marketing management team (internal customers), software designers, programmers, testers, and upper management. The software development team has attempted to release a mobile application of this magnitude in the past; however, lack of sponsorship, mobile development expertise, and technical infrastructure has limited the team’s success.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Identify at least four (4) attributes of the mobile application development project that can be measured and controlled and evaluate how each is a critical factor for the success of the project.
2. Generate a project plan summary of the various project milestones. Develop a WBS that details work packages required to complete project scope.
3. Develop a workflow model that can be used to inspect and detect defects during the acceptance of this mobile product through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
4. Describe how the defects detected during the acceptance of the mobile application should be reported and explain the circumstances in which a defect may not require reporting.
5. Analyze the communication needs of the different project stakeholders. Explain the types of project status reports that would be useful to each.
6. Compute the cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance index, schedule performance index, and estimated actual cost using the information presented at control point 2. Interpret the project schedule and budget status from the calculations.
7. Explain how work package, binary tracking, and earned valued reporting can be used effectively during the maintenance phase of the software life cycle if various change requests may be assigned to individuals and processed on an individual basis.
8. Develop a risk register that will document all of the estimated risks. Assign one (1) risk management technique for each risk and explain the basis for your selection.
9. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Develop a software project plan based on IEEE 1058 to solve a business problem.
• Explain the methods of creating, measuring, and controlling work products and work processes.
• Explain and analyze earned value reporting techniques in software projects.
• Describe ethical issues and risk management factors inherent in software projects.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in IT Project Leadership Strategies.
• Write clearly and concisely about topics related to IT Project Leadership Strategies using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

IT Eval & Implementation II (Unit IV)

DUE DATE:  FEB 12, 2015

1.  Compare and contrast a progress report versus a status report.  Describe the means and timing 

by which each is delivered.  Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are 

required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response.  All sources used, 

including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have 

accompanying citations.

2.  Assume you have a team consisting of eight people.  Due to additional project requirements, 

three additional people are added to the project.  How many communications paths exist both 

before and after the people are added?  What impact would you expect, if any?  Your response 

should be at least 75 words in length.  You are required to use at least your textbook as source

material for your response.  All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; 

paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

3.  Briefly explain what is meant by a stakeholder register and describe how you would use it in 

an actual project.  Your response should be at least 75 words in length.  You are required to use 

at least your textbook as source material for your response.  All sources used, including the 

textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying 

citations.

4.  Why is it important to have a project stakeholder strategy in a project?  Identify at least three 

problems that may result from not having such a strategy.  Your response should be at least 

75 words in length.  You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your 

response.  All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and

quoted material must have accompanying citations.