If you were performing this security audit, with which regulations would you want to ensure that PVSS complies? Why?

Scenario

Peak View Sound Sources is a public company based in Denver, Colorado and is focused on providing digital media and Web sites to music companies and musicians through the Mountain and West Coast regions. The company has a solid reputation and is starting to get some national and worldwide attention, with new prospective companies wanting to take advantage of the quality services they have seen on other existing Web sites.

Your company has been hired to assist Peak View Sound Sources (PVSS) to ascertain the security posture of the company’s Information Systems resources and services. You are heading the team of auditors tasked to perform the audit and assessment.

You enter the company offices of PVSS and begin your analysis of the environment and situation. 

Initial analysis has allowed you to determine that the company is made up of the following divisions:

  • Corporate Management and Support Staff: This organization contains the executive management, human resources, and accounting teams. All company decisions are directed from the management team.
  • Information Technology: This team manages the networks, servers, Web sites, and desktop environments for the company. The team has a perception of being difficult to work with, as they are slow to adopt new technology and slow to implement new offerings. The reality is that the team has resources and wants to uptake the newest and greatest technology, but they spend most of their time putting out fires and reacting to issues.
  • Media Content and Design: This team is in charge of working with the record companies and musicians to create the Web Sites and implement the product offerings that are sold.
  • Sales and Marketing: This team works with the musicians and record companies to offer and sell the services of PVSS.

There is a concern about the security of the infrastructure with respect to the ability to protect the copyrighted material that PVSS is given to host, because a single incident several years ago took place in which an entire new CD was released prematurely via the Internet. Although PVSS was not directly linked to the leak, there are suspicions surrounding PVSS.

Assignment Deliverables

As you continue your analysis, you see that the Information Technology (IT) department has developed several guidelines and procedures about how various systems should be considered and set up, but this is internal only to the IT department. Every time a new machine is set up and deployed, within a month, the configuration is changed.

  • Explain why you think the use of these guidelines and procedures is not sufficient and may not solve the problem. Consider how a company-wide policy program could help the situation.
  • As you begin to prepare your game plan to conduct an Information Security Audit, talk about why you think this current situation makes it difficult to identify the controls that need to be examined.
  • If you were performing this security audit, with which regulations would you want to ensure that PVSS complies? Why?
Describe which information systems would be considered part of the scope for the audit.

Your project lead has asked you to determine if PVSS has ever conducted an audit. After further investigation of the situation, you determine that this will be the first review that PVSS has conducted or to which it has been subjected. Your project lead has asked you to summarize your review and next steps.

In a 4-5-page TECH MEMO [format included here in the School of Information Technology LibGuide] addressed to your project lead, complete the following:

  • Explain what steps you will need to develop and establish to facilitate a successful audit.
  • List and describe the steps and tasks required to implement an audit program.
  • In addition, describe the audit class(es) that would be applicable to your contracted audit.
  • Describe which information systems would be considered part of the scope for the audit.

Cover page and reference page are not included in page count. Document formatting, citations, and references must follow APA format. The AIU APA Guide includes sections for paper formatting, as well as reference and citation examples. For example, 250 words equals one page of content.

What do justice administrators—police, courts, and corrections officials—actually administer?

Justice Administration; Police, Courts, and Corrections Management. Ken Peak

What do justice administrators—police, courts, and corrections officials—actually administer? Do they provide leadership over a system that has succeeded in accomplishing its mission? Do individuals within the system work amiably and communicate well with one another? Do they all share the same goals? Do their efforts result in crime reduction? In short, do they compose a system? We now turn to these questions, taking a fundamental yet expansive view of justice administration.

What are the external and internal drivers that help shape a corporate security program?

Assignment Deliverables

As the new Chief Information Security Officer for CB Drifter Technologies, you have been asked by the CEO and CTO to start a discussion with the senior staff on the following:

1) What are the 5 new elements of the Information Security Governance framework. Describe each in 2-3 sentences.

Ideally the information security governance framework aligns with the organizational governance framework and considers internal and external factors shaping the security program leading to the next required discussion question:

2) What are the external and internal drivers that help shape a corporate security program? Describe each in 2-3 sentences.

show how the security program aligns with the goals and governance of the organization.

The first product requested of you as the CCISO by the CB Drifter Technology senior staff is to detail the organization’s security governance in a document, referred to as a security program plan or security charter. This security charter, a 4-5-page MS Word document, should show how the security program aligns with the goals and governance of the organization.

Paper Format:

  • Title page (does not count towards page length requirement). Use “CB Drifter Technology Security Charter” as document title.
  • Security vision
  • Security mission
  • Security scope
  • Strategic security objectives
  • Security responsibilities
  • Security principles
  • Corporate and management commitment
  • Evaluate and renewal requirements
  • APA References page (does not count towards the page length requirement)

Your report must be written using the APA writing style. For more information on APA, please visit the APA Lab.

Respond to HOW and WHY the artist has either chosen themselves as the subject or utilized the social meaning of their identity as the subject.  What is the difference?

The creation of self-portraits has its roots in the Renaissance period when the social status of the artist began to shift.  Artists often used a self-portrait to elevate their rank (think of Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez) or emphasize their identity as a painter (any number of self-portraits by women such as Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun).  But today, artists use themselves as subjects in their work for a variety of reasons.  

  • Consider the evolution of the self-portrait by looking at examples by the following artists:
    • Vincent Van Gogh
    • Cindy Sherman
    • Robert Mapplethorpe
    • Renee Cox
    • Shirin Neshat
  • Respond to HOW and WHY the artist has either chosen themselves as the subject or utilized the social meaning of their identity as the subject.  What is the difference?  You must provide at least two of the artists as your example.

150 words

To what extent is your awareness of being watched by the technology you use modulating your behavior?

This will enable you to understanding the extent to which social media companies have permeated into the lives of citizens, and the commodification of personal data of users of social media platforms.

American pride themselves of their privacy and freedom. But to anyone who is conscious of the advancements in technology, these claims of privacy and freedom are becoming increasingly illusive.

  • Identify and explain 2 of the underlying reasons for the shifts in attitude and tolerance about the invasion of our personal privacies.
  • Identify and explain 2 ways you are under surveillance  by your own technologies that you use routinely. It is important to be specific and precise.
  • To what extent is your awareness of being watched by the technology you use modulating your behavior? Are you conscious of this?  Why, or why not?
  • Research and write about what someone had broadcasted or posted on social media came back to hunt them at a crucial point in their life.
Identify the procedure code and the diagnosis code for this treatment.

introduction:

Billing for a procedure may be a complex process. It is important to have a clear picture of the flow of tasks that make up the completed process of billing and the resources needed for the work to be completed.

Tasks:

  • List the steps involved in billing a commercial insurer for a broken finger treated in an urgent care clinic.
  • Describe any regulatory issues encountered in billing for this case.
  • Identify the procedure code and the diagnosis code for this treatment.
  • Identify the resources needed to fill out the claim form.
List at least six types of coverage organization from single-payer to universal coverage.

Introduction:

Given the complexity of the types of financing entities covering the cost of healthcare in America, it is critical to understand the types and their similarities and differences. This project will assure that they are enumerated and understood.

Tasks:

  • List at least six types of coverage organization from single-payer to universal coverage.
  • Describe their main features.
  • Contrast them from the standpoint of billing.
  • Distinguish the public-financed types from the commercial-type coverage in terms of regulations.
Describe the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB).

Introduction:

The 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act established a database that is intended to improve the quality of healthcare in this country. Two other databases have merged with it and now offer many potential advantages.

Tasks:

  • Describe the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB).
  • Identify the uses of the NPDB.
  • Analyze any limitations of the NPDB.
  • Describe how NPDB relates to billing for services.
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