Category: Computer Science homework help

 
Part 1
Before you begin working on this discussion post, please make sure that you have read the Week 1 readings!
Welcome to Padgett-Beale and your first week as a management intern.
The Chief of Staff will be hosting a working lunch this week for your group of interns. In addition to the usual introductions and “getting to know you” discussions, you’ve been advised that there will be a discussion of the following article.

Seasonal Employee Security Risks: Present Danger, Proactive Defense

Each intern has been asked to write and bring a discussion paper containing their written responses to the following questions:
What steps can (should) managers take to reduce security risks associated with hiring seasonal or temporary employees? (Consider whether or not the Secure Computer User training course would be appropriate for these employees.)
 How can managers show leadership in the area of cybersecurity defenses and best practices?
Consider the ways in which these types of companies are likely to use seasonal employees and the types of digital assets / information to which these temporary employees may have access.
Part 2
  Responding to Guest Concerns about Cyberattacks 
 
your internship assignment is with the company’s Guest Relations office.
You have been asked to draft a letter to guests to address concerns about the impacts of possible cyberattacks. Recently there have been news reports describing cyberattacks on the hospitality industry. This letter should reassure guests that the company is taking positive steps to protect guest privacy. Consider the technical and people perspectives.
There are legal requirements for such a letter. This  Data Security Breach Notice Letter guidance document from Hutnik, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP provides guidance for companies facing the need to write notification letters.
Consider the required “tone” for such a letter. The letter must be factual but, more importantly, it is necessary to show an appropriate amount of empathy and understanding for the recipient’s feelings. Empathy and emotional intelligence are important leadership skills for managers.
To learn more about emotional intelligence, read this definition of Emotional Intelligence.  Then, read about three types of empathy: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-empathy-2795562
The letter should be between 200-250 words and written concisely so the explanation is clear and not overly technical. The point is to ensure guests that the situation is under control and that you’ve taken steps to make sure they can feel confident that their information is safe. Remember accountability and empathy in your letter.
Part 3
 Cybersecurity Issues for Business Travelers 
 Post your initial response of at least 150 words 
Here  interns are reflecting on cybersecurity issues that must be considered when employees travel for business. In your opinion, what are the security issues associated the technologies (cell phones, computers, etc.) used when traveling? In your opinion, is there a false sense of security that this is only a concern with international travel? 
Part 4
 Privacy Policies & Compliance Issues 
 Post your initial response of at least 150 words 
 
After completing the course readings for the week, do additional research into the potential privacy, data security, and liability issues facing companies similar to Padgett-Beale. Find an event within the past three years that describes an issue related to this week’s course material and describe the event. And then, provide your opinion on what should be done to make sure it doesn’t happen again? For example, did the event result from a potential lack of employee training? If so, what type of training would you recommend? 
For examples of guest privacy policies, please see these resources:
https://www.lhw.com/Privacy-Policy
https://www.ihcltata.com/privacy-policy/
https://www.fourseasons.com/privacy/
Part 6
 Post your initial response of at least 150 words 
 
Padgett-Beale’s Corporate Security Office has recently completed an investigation into how a competitor may have obtained copies of the confidential architectural drawings and design plans for a new type of resort that the company had planned for a recently acquired island property. It is suspected that an Advanced Persistent Threat mechanism may have been used to exfiltrate information.
In your opinion, what processes and procedures should be used to discourage or make it difficult for employees, managers, and executives to inadvertently misuse and/or steal the company’s intellectual property (consider data classification and marking, separation of duties, and least privilege).

 
Part 1
Before you begin working on this discussion post, please make sure that you have read the Week 1 readings!
Welcome to Padgett-Beale and your first week as a management intern.
The Chief of Staff will be hosting a working lunch this week for your group of interns. In addition to the usual introductions and “getting to know you” discussions, you’ve been advised that there will be a discussion of the following article.

Seasonal Employee Security Risks: Present Danger, Proactive Defense

Each intern has been asked to write and bring a discussion paper containing their written responses to the following questions:
What steps can (should) managers take to reduce security risks associated with hiring seasonal or temporary employees? (Consider whether or not the Secure Computer User training course would be appropriate for these employees.)
 How can managers show leadership in the area of cybersecurity defenses and best practices?
Consider the ways in which these types of companies are likely to use seasonal employees and the types of digital assets / information to which these temporary employees may have access.
Part 2
  Responding to Guest Concerns about Cyberattacks 
 
your internship assignment is with the company’s Guest Relations office.
You have been asked to draft a letter to guests to address concerns about the impacts of possible cyberattacks. Recently there have been news reports describing cyberattacks on the hospitality industry. This letter should reassure guests that the company is taking positive steps to protect guest privacy. Consider the technical and people perspectives.
There are legal requirements for such a letter. This  Data Security Breach Notice Letter guidance document from Hutnik, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP provides guidance for companies facing the need to write notification letters.
Consider the required “tone” for such a letter. The letter must be factual but, more importantly, it is necessary to show an appropriate amount of empathy and understanding for the recipient’s feelings. Empathy and emotional intelligence are important leadership skills for managers.
To learn more about emotional intelligence, read this definition of Emotional Intelligence.  Then, read about three types of empathy: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-empathy-2795562
The letter should be between 200-250 words and written concisely so the explanation is clear and not overly technical. The point is to ensure guests that the situation is under control and that you’ve taken steps to make sure they can feel confident that their information is safe. Remember accountability and empathy in your letter.
Part 3
 Cybersecurity Issues for Business Travelers 
 Post your initial response of at least 150 words 
Here  interns are reflecting on cybersecurity issues that must be considered when employees travel for business. In your opinion, what are the security issues associated the technologies (cell phones, computers, etc.) used when traveling? In your opinion, is there a false sense of security that this is only a concern with international travel? 
Part 4
 Privacy Policies & Compliance Issues 
 Post your initial response of at least 150 words 
 
After completing the course readings for the week, do additional research into the potential privacy, data security, and liability issues facing companies similar to Padgett-Beale. Find an event within the past three years that describes an issue related to this week’s course material and describe the event. And then, provide your opinion on what should be done to make sure it doesn’t happen again? For example, did the event result from a potential lack of employee training? If so, what type of training would you recommend? 
For examples of guest privacy policies, please see these resources:
https://www.lhw.com/Privacy-Policy
https://www.ihcltata.com/privacy-policy/
https://www.fourseasons.com/privacy/
Part 6
 Post your initial response of at least 150 words 
 
Padgett-Beale’s Corporate Security Office has recently completed an investigation into how a competitor may have obtained copies of the confidential architectural drawings and design plans for a new type of resort that the company had planned for a recently acquired island property. It is suspected that an Advanced Persistent Threat mechanism may have been used to exfiltrate information.
In your opinion, what processes and procedures should be used to discourage or make it difficult for employees, managers, and executives to inadvertently misuse and/or steal the company’s intellectual property (consider data classification and marking, separation of duties, and least privilege).

Part 1
  Quick Start Guides 
 
write a quick start guide.  This discussion topic is designed to help you become more familiar with what a quick start guide is and what its function is in technical writing.
To learn about quick start guides, please examine the three resources provided in Content in week 3:
What is a Quickstart Guide?
Quick Reference Guides Right Where You Need Them
Technical Writing Tips: The 80/20 Rule
You might also benefit from looking at the Sample Quick Start Guides in Learning Resources in week 3.  While these quick start guides are longer than the one you will be writing, they present different strategies for incorporating text and images to accommodate their users.
Then answer the following questions.  Your answers can be 2-3 sentences:
Most quick start guides are one page long. They have to be one page so that the user can look at them at a glance. What are some of the challenges to reducing a set of instructions of, for example, 3-4 pages into one page?
How does the 80/20 rule relate to the usefulness of quick start guides?
In your experience, when you purchase a product or a new piece of software, do you tend to use the user manual more, or do you tend to use the quick start guide more? Why?
Part 2
 
Preparing for WA4, the Report to the Supervisor
 
Please read the instructions for that assignment.  Then answer the following questions:
You have just been hired as Assistant Manager at Work ‘N Suds. Please write a one-paragraph (3-4 sentences) summary of the problems you see in the company, according to the scenario.
 In UMGC’s OneSearch interface, find one article on the concept of cross-training for employees in an organization.  Keep in mind that some articles might spell the term with a hyphen (cross-training) and some might spell it without a hyphen (cross training). Provide the author(s) and title of the article.
From your search from task #2 above, select Resource Types, then select Articles, and then select Peer Reviewed (Scholarly) Journals. 
Select one article in your search list and provide the author(s) and title of the article.  If you do not see any hits, reword your search terms. If you still receive no hits after rewording your search terms, then indicate what search terms you used.
Select one of the other concepts mentioned in the writing assignment instructions (mandatory vacations, cyberscurity in video surveillance systems, handling of credit cards, or any other concept).  Then, in UMGC’s OneSearch interface, find one article on this concept. Provide the author(s) and title of the article.
This question involves listening to a part of the podcast, “Cyberbit Podcast Episode 1: The Unspoken Skill-Gap in the Cybersecurity Market,” which features Mr. Adam Bricker, former co-founder of Carolina Cyber Center and Mr. Sharon Rosenman, Chief Marketing Officer at Cyberbit.
The segment of the podcast we will listen to is from the 48:00 mark to the 50:30 mark. In that segment, a participant asks a question about writing in the cybersecurity field. The following link takes you directly to that question and Mr. Bricker’s response:
The Unspoken Skill-Gap in the Cybersecurity Market, 48:00 mark(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-IMz_EXcas&t=2880s)
Mr. Bricker describes the type of technical communication that individuals in the cybersecurity field need to be able to produce.
How does his description fit the scenario with Mark Carman and Work ‘N Suds?  In other words, who is the audience for writing assignment #4, and how does Mr. Bricker’s explanation align with the scenario?

Part 1
  Quick Start Guides 
 
write a quick start guide.  This discussion topic is designed to help you become more familiar with what a quick start guide is and what its function is in technical writing.
To learn about quick start guides, please examine the three resources provided in Content in week 3:
What is a Quickstart Guide?
Quick Reference Guides Right Where You Need Them
Technical Writing Tips: The 80/20 Rule
You might also benefit from looking at the Sample Quick Start Guides in Learning Resources in week 3.  While these quick start guides are longer than the one you will be writing, they present different strategies for incorporating text and images to accommodate their users.
Then answer the following questions.  Your answers can be 2-3 sentences:
Most quick start guides are one page long. They have to be one page so that the user can look at them at a glance. What are some of the challenges to reducing a set of instructions of, for example, 3-4 pages into one page?
How does the 80/20 rule relate to the usefulness of quick start guides?
In your experience, when you purchase a product or a new piece of software, do you tend to use the user manual more, or do you tend to use the quick start guide more? Why?
Part 2
 
Preparing for WA4, the Report to the Supervisor
 
Please read the instructions for that assignment.  Then answer the following questions:
You have just been hired as Assistant Manager at Work ‘N Suds. Please write a one-paragraph (3-4 sentences) summary of the problems you see in the company, according to the scenario.
 In UMGC’s OneSearch interface, find one article on the concept of cross-training for employees in an organization.  Keep in mind that some articles might spell the term with a hyphen (cross-training) and some might spell it without a hyphen (cross training). Provide the author(s) and title of the article.
From your search from task #2 above, select Resource Types, then select Articles, and then select Peer Reviewed (Scholarly) Journals. 
Select one article in your search list and provide the author(s) and title of the article.  If you do not see any hits, reword your search terms. If you still receive no hits after rewording your search terms, then indicate what search terms you used.
Select one of the other concepts mentioned in the writing assignment instructions (mandatory vacations, cyberscurity in video surveillance systems, handling of credit cards, or any other concept).  Then, in UMGC’s OneSearch interface, find one article on this concept. Provide the author(s) and title of the article.
This question involves listening to a part of the podcast, “Cyberbit Podcast Episode 1: The Unspoken Skill-Gap in the Cybersecurity Market,” which features Mr. Adam Bricker, former co-founder of Carolina Cyber Center and Mr. Sharon Rosenman, Chief Marketing Officer at Cyberbit.
The segment of the podcast we will listen to is from the 48:00 mark to the 50:30 mark. In that segment, a participant asks a question about writing in the cybersecurity field. The following link takes you directly to that question and Mr. Bricker’s response:
The Unspoken Skill-Gap in the Cybersecurity Market, 48:00 mark(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-IMz_EXcas&t=2880s)
Mr. Bricker describes the type of technical communication that individuals in the cybersecurity field need to be able to produce.
How does his description fit the scenario with Mark Carman and Work ‘N Suds?  In other words, who is the audience for writing assignment #4, and how does Mr. Bricker’s explanation align with the scenario?

Create a bash script for changing root password for list of servers
Input :- read list of servers from a file, take password for user1, root password & new root password.
The script should loop through all the servers in the input file
login to server as user1
Then log as root (su -)
should take password directly from the inital input
Echo ” logged in as root and display server name”
Change root password with new passsword
Check if password change was successful and display output (success or failure)
sample change on one server:-
ssh user1@server01
Password of user1
[user1@server01]$su –
root password(this should directly take from input)
[root@server01 ~]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password successfully changed for root
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

 
A company has a potential case involving their trademark. Describe some steps you might suggest at a meeting with the officers of the corporation to investigate a crime involving trademark infringement. What if it were a sexual harassment case? What are the similarities or differences between the two types of cases?
Describe the steps you would suggest for investigating a corporate espionage case.

 
When you’re searching for contractors, consultants, business partners, software, and hardware, what are some methods you use? Be very specific and detailed in how you research these resources and give more than one example (contractor and software search, for example).

What method do you use for keeping track of your contacts and leads?

Once you have a list of resources, how do you decide which to recommend to your company to select for your project? (If you have never done this, research a methodology and report on how you plan to do it.)

If you are selecting contractors, consultants, or other human resources, recommend an interview process and gather the costs.
If you are looking at software, hardware, or other non-human resources, talk about how you determine the most value to the company for the money. The company is making an investment; how do you determine the best investment for the greatest return? (Be specific on the methodology you use or would use.)

After responding to the above, write an additional paragraph on why you think your recommendation should be followed and how you can be confident that your recommendation is best for your organization.

 
One of your continuing clients has engaged you to conduct a wireless assessment and penetration test of their infrastructure. Your client has asked you to brief them on the methodology you will use and the tools you would select to complete this engagement.
Briefly, lay out your proposed methodology with a brief explanation of each step and any tools you would use to support a given step.
200-250 words

Conduct an online search for an article that discusses some of the hot trends and emerging aspects of networking such as IoT, machine learning, or Wi-Fi 6.
In your initial post, explain why you believe these trends are important in the ever-changing world of computer networks and business. Additionally, highlight two examples of these emerging technologies in networking that you engage with (or would like to engage with) on a frequent basis.
In response to two of your peers, discuss the possible positive and negative aspects of whatever technology your peers chose.

NO AI
NO PLAGIARISM
NO REFERENCES
NO CHAT GPT
Minimum 50 words per response:(What are your thoughts)
1) A parameter and an argument are both key concepts when working with functions in programming, but they aren’t the same. The parameter is a placeholder in a function’s recipe. When you write a function, you define what parameters it needs. For example, if you have a function def add(a, b):, a and b are the parameters. They are like empty slots waiting to be filled with actual values when you use the function. An argument is the actual value you plug into the parameters when you call the function. So, if you call add(3, 5), the numbers 3 and 5 are the arguments. They fill in the placeholders (a and b) in the function’s recipe. When you call a function, the arguments you provide match the parameters defined in the function. For example, in add(3, 5), 3 fills in for a, and 5 fills in for b. Parameters are the names you set up when you define the function. Arguments are the actual values you pass in when you use the function. So, parameters are like the instructions in a recipe, telling you what kind of ingredients you need, and arguments are the specific ingredients you use when you’re making the dish. You can change what a function does by giving it different arguments. In the PrintPizzaArea the diameter is the parameter and the argument would be the number value 12.
2) A parameter and an argument, though closely related, serve different roles in the context of functions in programming.
Parameter: A parameter is a variable defined in a function’s declaration or definition. It acts as a placeholder for the value that will be passed to the function when it is called. Parameters define what kind of input the function expects to receive and are essential in determining how the function will operate on the provided data. For example, in the function definition def calculate_area(radius), the radius is the parameter.
Argument: On the other hand, an argument is the actual value or data you pass to the function when you call it. Arguments are the exact inputs that the function uses to perform its operations. Continuing the previous example, if you call the function calculate_area(5), the value 5 is the argument.
Relationship and Differences: Parameters and arguments are intrinsically linked. Parameters exist within the function’s definition, outlining the type and number of inputs the function expects. Arguments are the actual values provided to these parameters during function invocation. Without parameters, a function cannot accept arguments, and without arguments, a function with parameters cannot execute meaningfully.
When evaluating activity 4.1.3 and understanding the parameters of the function: Parameter for PrintPizzaArea: In the function definition, it might look something like def PrintPizzaArea(diameter):. Here, diameter is the parameter.
In summary, parameters are variables in the function definition that specify what kind of data the function can accept, while arguments are the actual data provided to these parameters when the function is called. This relationship enables the function to process different inputs dynamically, making programming more flexible and powerful.