What kind of actions and procedures differentiates an ethical hacker from a malicious hacker?
Question 1
Below list shows the five phases of hacking in random order. Place them in the correct order into the table below:
1. Covering Tracks
2. Gaining Access
3. Maintaining Access
4. Reconnaissance
5. Scanning and Enumeration
Below list shows actions/methods/tools that are used within five hacking phases. Select three of them for each hacking phase, and fill out the table below accordingly.
1. Backdoors
2. Buffer overflow
3. Dumpster diving
4. Hide files
5. Login a wireless access point with the default password
6. Network mapper
7. Network Sniffing
8. Ping sweep
9. Port scan
10. Remove log files
11. Rootkits
12. SQL injection
13. Trojans
14. Use VPN
15. Watch the outside of the building
Describe each of the phases in one or two sentences.
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Question 2
What kind of actions and procedures differentiates an ethical hacker from a malicious hacker?
Describe how Whole Foods built its competitive advantage.
Whole Foods Five Competitive Forces
Assessment Description
In this assignment, students will research competitive advantage. By learning this concept, students will understand the necessity of a consumer’s problem and a company’s product or service as a solution to that problem.
In 500 words or more, address the following:
Describe how Whole Foods built its competitive advantage.
What IT assets and capabilities does Whole Foods utilize?
Assess Whole Foods’ competitive environment by describing the following five competitive forces:
1. The potential threat of new entrants/competitors
2. The bargaining power of buyers
3. The bargaining power of suppliers
4. The threat of substitute products/services
5. Industry competitors
Note: Use Figure 2.3 in the textbook as a guide.
This assignment requires the use of at least two additional scholarly research sources published within the last 5 years. Include at least one in-text citation from each cited source.
What are the advantages to good communication?
By the due date assigned respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area.
Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.
Support your answers with examples and research and cite your research using the APA format.
Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible.
Internal Business Communication
For this week’s discussion assignment, find an internal communication document (this could be e-mail, newsletter, or other internal means of communicating with staff) that you have seen either in your current organization or another organization that you are familiar with.
Based on your analysis of the chosen business document, complete the following tasks:
Post the document as an attachment.
Provide a one paragraph summary at the beginning of your initial post detailing who the intended audience is for this document as well as what the intended message is.
Then, choose one of the following bullet points.
Rewrite the document in your own words using the different concepts that you learned about written communication in Week 1 and Week 2 of the course. Post your rewritten document to the discussion as well. Provide a one paragraph summary note that details at least two principles or concepts (with research citation support) that you used for re-writing the document
Assess any problems that you see in the business document, using research to support your conclusions. Compose a succinct paragraphing detailing the importance of effective written communication both as an individual and as a team member. For example:
What are the advantages to good communication?
Why are there so many communication problems within an organization when it is such an important aspect of a successful organization?
Analyze the likelihood that John would be found guilty of sexually harassing Martha. If found in Martha’s favor, what should the HR manager do to remedy the situation within the workplace?
Case Analysis
Analyze the following situation:
Martha has worked for John for two years. About 6 months ago, John asked Martha out to dinner. They had a good time together and agreed that they had some real interests in common outside of work. The pair dated for two months. Martha initially liked John, but he was beginning to get annoying. John called her all the time, was very pushy about her seeing him, and wanted to control all aspects of her life, both at work and at home. Martha decided to call it off. When she told John that she did not want to see him personally anymore, he went crazy on her. He told her she would be sorry and that he would see to it that she regretted it.
John began to make life miserable for Martha at work. She suddenly started to get poor performance evaluations after two years of exemplary reviews. Even the managers above John were beginning to make comments about her poor attitude. Martha decided it was time to act. She was worried she would be fired, all because John wanted her to continue to date him. She loved her job and knew she did quality work. She made an appointment with the HR manager.
Using the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991, and the two basic types of sexual harassment as described in our lecture ( quid pro quo and hostile work environment), assess the type of sexual harassment Martha is experiencing.
Evaluate the obligations of the HR manager once Martha reports her concerns. If the HR manager investigates and finds Martha is telling the truth, what steps should be taken to comply with the EEOC? How does HRM offer an affirmative defense and prevail in a lawsuit.
Analyze the likelihood that John would be found guilty of sexually harassing Martha. If found in Martha’s favor, what should the HR manager do to remedy the situation within the workplace?
Submission Details:
· Submit your report in a 4 to 5 page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
Develop a Reading/Language Arts lesson plan designed around serving ELL students in your classroom.
Develop a Reading/Language Arts lesson plan designed around serving ELL students in your classroom.
Please follow EDTA LESSON PLAN METHODS
What seem to be the key focal points of the code of ethics?
Instructions
Project: Communication Ethics
This course has major project assignments due in Week 3 and Week 5. It will take more than a week’s effort to adequately complete them. Plan time to start the research and work on those assignments earlier than the week in which they are due.
Communication Ethics
In this assignment, you will learn to critically evaluate the code of ethics practiced in the corporate world.
Complete the following tasks:
· Find an example of an actual corporate code of ethics (you may also use the code of ethics from your current employment).
· Critique the code of ethics by addressing the following questions:
· What seem to be the key focal points of the code of ethics?
· Does the firm urge all its employees to uphold the code and perform only in ethically acceptable ways? How?
· Does the code discuss the firm’s values and reflect the corporate culture? How?
· Recommend at least three improvements the organization could make to its code of ethics.
Support your answers with examples and reasoning.
Submission Details:
· Submit your assignment as a 3 to 4 pages Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
· Support your answers with examples, reasoning, and research.
Identify an example from your professional career in which both highly favorable and unfavorable variances occurred.
Several tools are available to managers to assist them in evaluating organizational performance, one of them being variance analysis. Variance analysis compares actual costs and quantities with standard costs and quantities. The results from a variance analysis are important for helping managers control costs (price variances) and identify areas where organizational performance and efficiency can be improved (quantity variances). In this Discussion, you will use an example from your professional career to consider the role of variance analysis in the decision-making processes for an organization.
To prepare for this Discussion:
· Consider the role of variance analysis in decision making and how understanding variances, both favorable and unfavorable, might help contribute to improved organizational efficiency.
· Identify an example from your professional career in which both highly favorable and unfavorable variances occurred.
Post an explanation of the role of variance analysis in managerial decision making, to include the following: (the assignment should be 300 words or more)
· Describe an example from your professional career in which both highly favorable and unfavorable variances occurred.
· Identify what stakeholders were most affected by these variances.
· Explain how understanding these variances could have helped you as a manager in this situation to make better decisions.
References
Should the United States government impose a carbon tax, why or why not?
Chapter 10 explores Externalities, positive and negative. Climate change represents a negative externality. Read about NASA’s evidence relating to climate change. Then explore the World Bank’s overview of carbon pricing.
Should the United States government impose a carbon tax, why or why not?
Which features contribute mostly to the linear regression model? Is the model fitting the data well? How large is the model error?
We consider a regression problem for predicting the demand of bike-sharing services in Washington D.C.1 The prediction task is to predict the demand for the bikes (column cnt) given the other features: ignore the columns instant and dteday. Use the day.csv file from the data folder. (a) Write a Python file to load day.csv.2 Compute the correlation coefficient of each feature with the response (i.e., cnt). Include a table with the correlation coefficient of each feature with the response. Which features are positively correlated (i.e., have positive corre- lation coefficient) with the response? Which feature has the highest positive correlation with the response? (b) Were you able to find any features with a negative correlation coefficient with the response? If not, can you think of a feature that is not provided in the dataset but may have a negative correlation coefficient with the response? (c) Now, divide the data into training and test sets with the training set having about 70 percent of the data. Import train_test_split from sklearn to perform this operation. Use an existing package to train a multiple linear regression model on the training set using all the features (except the ones excluded above). Report the coefficients of the linear regression models and the following metrics on the training data: (1) RMSE metric; (2) R2 metric. [Hint: You may find the libraries sklearn.linear_model.LinearRegression useful.] (d) Next, use the test set that was generated in the earlier step. Evaluate the trained model in step (c) on the testing set. Report the RMSE and R2 metrics on the testing set. (e) Interpret the results in your own words. Which features contribute mostly to the linear regression model? Is the model fitting the data well? How large is the model error?
1https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/marklvl/bike-sharing-dataset?search=bike+demand+Washington& select=Readme.txt. You can also find a Readme.txt file that explains all the features in the dataset. 2Refer to https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html on how to load a csv file in Python.
Analyze the impact that laws and regulations have on ethical decisions made in conducting a business.
Assignment #3
Chapter 4
Social Responsibility Real World Case
Competency:
#4 Discussing the nature of the corporation and its relationship to society.
#8 Analyzing the impact that laws and regulations have on ethical decisions made in conducting a business.
#15 Analyzing specific ethical decisions made by businesses in the areas of human resources, marketing, accounting/finance, and production.
Having read Chapter 4, answer the following:
Read on pages 115-116 the “Cases From the Real World” regarding Corporate and Personal Choices Regarding the Environment of the Future and address the three Critical Thinking questions, applying the lessons from the chapter. Demonstrate your understanding of the competencies by conveying the chapter material, applying the lessons to the Case.
Assignment 3 will be graded on conveying a clear understanding of the topic, providing a clear discussion of such, as well as utilizing correct grammar.
