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Explain why becoming a data consultant might be a good career choice. Why is data measurement considered to be the modern equivalent of the microscope? How has data-driven decision making improved productivity? How is Big Data transforming the way social networks function? all feb 21 max

Explain why becoming a data consultant might be a good career choice. Basically, their jobs are to help businesses make sense of an explosion of data Web traffic and social network comments as well as software and sensors that monitor shipments, suppliers and customers. So, since a great number of people have used the Internet frequently, their jobs are needed to people because as much as people use the Internet, the data will be increased and people need other people who can manage such things. Why is data measurement considered to be the modern equivalent of the microscope? The reason is that there is countless data sensor around the world. The sensors can measure and communicate location, movement, vibration, temperature, humidity, even chemical changes in the air. How has data-driven decision making improved productivity? Data-driven decision making has improved productivity because people collect as much as data they can before deciding. As people doing that, they can predict preference of consumers from the Internet. It is very useful because people don't have to spend much time on consumers' preference also, a small amount of money and time will be spent. How is Big Data transforming the way social networks function? Social networks websites such as Facebook and Twitter and Search engines like Google and Answer.com make profit with their users' data. Many companies will buy the users' data from Facebook, Google, Answer.com and Twitter. That's a way to earn money for social network websites.

Are any corporate databases and networks safe? Should consumers be wary about providing personal data online? How valuable is data stored online? May 11 soo

Are any corporate databases and networks safe? According to the article, they mentioned that no corporation databases are not completely safe and secure enough to protect personal information. There are too much false which makes network perfectly safe. It is very large storage and contains a lot of personal information. If the network is too big, they can't manage the network well and all the weaknesses will occur. The hackers will aim to hack the corporate databases because it has a lot of information therefore; it is not actually very safe. Should consumers be wary about providing personal data online? Yes, consumers should be wary about providing personal data online, because all services that store the online data are all under risk of being hacked, and the data compromised. Once the sensitive information is compromised, the user is more vulnerable to scam attacks through e-mails, as well as have their bank accounts or other user accounts online hacked. consumers should be a warning to be wary about providing personal data online because no corporate networks are frequently attacked by hackers and no matter how diligently their administrators work to protect them or how many protections are put n place, no network is perfectly secure. Even Sony' security systems are not perfect at all. Therefore, people have to be wary about providing personal data online How valuable is data stored online? Data stored online is very valuable, especially sensitive information such as ID numbers and bank/credit card numbers. Other personal data such as names, passwords, and security question answers are useful for hackers, and can be easily used for impersonation on other sites to hack into user accounts for further bad intentions.

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Explain the issues that are in common with both Amazon and Sony? Explain the reasons that cloud computing will continue to grow? What could have prevented Sony from getting hacked? Describe: Rambo architecture Chaos monkey Explain the reason that data centers for cloud computing need backups? may 9 woo

1. Explain the issues that are in common with both Amazon and Sony? Issues that are in common with both Amazon and Sony are their reliability and integrity as well as its security. Amazon has just revealed that its Availability Zone in northern Virginia has failed to accommodate customers that were using their services. Sony's hack incident includes its network protection system to be unreliable. Also the security of Amazon's customer's data along with Sony's online users' data is at risk, as well as sensitive information linked to bank accounts. Both Sony and Amazon suffer a setback on their online reputation. Both companies have their servers down which affect a lot of their customers using their services. They both revived worries about the safety of storing and processing data over the Internet. The two crises have also raised questions about the speed and quality of information provided by tech companies when confronted with systems failures. This further links to the data integrity. Amazon users have said that some data may be corrupted or loss resulting from their sites crashing. Sony's users' accounts data may have been altered by unauthorized people. 2. Explain the reasons that cloud computing will continue to grow? Cloud computing will still continue to grow despite its recent incidents because the benefits users receive outweigh the risks that come with cloud computing. The outage suffered by Amazon has been rare. Also, managing one's own network is hardly a guarantee of reliability; it costs a lot of money and is high maintenance. Cloud computing provides another alternative that can save costs for businesses. Also, the recent incidents have proven that managing one's own network is not as reliable as some think considering protection issues and failure/crashes in the network itself. 3. What could have prevented Sony from getting hacked? Sony could have increased its protection system, as well as create random simulations in orde

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What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? Describe LinkedIn. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? What are the 7 International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles? Explain the major criticism of this system (International...)? Explain "self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement". Explain "China's political elite have a love hate relationship with the internet". march 25 woo

1. What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? Google says that Chinese customers and advertisers have increasingly been complaining about their Gmail service in the past month. Attempts by users to send messages, mark messages as unread and use other services have generated problems for Gmail customers. Google shows potential signs that the Chinese government is increasing their censorship by revealing that Gmail's e-mailing system features have been disrupted for Gmail users as well as other Gmail interfaces such as sending e-mails. Google also reveals that the users who filed in these complaints are mostly potential threats to the Chinese government such as the activist accounts also with financial, technology, media and chemical companies users' accounts. Thus, even though there is no concrete evidence, there are signs that are most likely to be linked to the Chinese government. 2. How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? The move follows extensive attempts by the Chinese authorities to crack down on the Jasmine revolution, an online dissident movement inspired by events in the Middle East. The censorship was supposed to prevent people from getting too much information but instead, this can provoke people to go against the government since people are aware that they have been treated unfairly. 3. Describe LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. LinkedIn operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone to become a connection. 4. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? LinkedIn is business-social networking and Chinese can use this site as the means of evoking opposition against the government. China's president Hu Jint

Define: AWS Iaas Define and describe: Free redundancy rapid scalability server failover maintainability Explain each lesson and determine whether you agree or not with each one. May 13 az

1) Define: AWS- The Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote computing services (also calledweb services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet byAmazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. Iaas - infrastructure-as-a-service; a way to deploy a less reliable server, quickly and without human intervention. 2) Define and describe: Free redundancy- re-deploying your application in another data center or cloud service using on-demand resources instead of having an idle redundant data center. Rapid scalability- Scalability approach that doesn't require access to AMIs that is stored on S3 or EBS. Instead, it uses the on-demand resources. This is when the system can withstand changes in transaction volume without major changes. Server failover- Virtual servers fail more frequently that physical servers, and when they do, there is less ability to recover them. Treat server failover the same way as scalability, just bring up a new server. Maintainability- Use a fully automated deployment and not a server configuration that is created manually to make it maintainability. Since, when a server configuration that is created manually and saved to a "golden image" has numerous problems such as: only the person who built it knows what is there, so if that person is gone, it can be time consuming to re-configure it. On the other hand, a fully automated deployment is not only a maintainable process, it also serves as documentation. 3) Explain each lesson and determine whether you agree or not with each one. Wrong lesson #1 The lesson where the infrastructure of the cloud is either not ready for its time to shine, or never will be. This is the lesson that explains that the infrastructure is still carried out on physical servers, just in remote areas where they are held in the physical data center in large numbers. These physical server

How does Facebook use the information people share to make money? Describe the issues that Facebook should address. all Dec 6 cream

How does Facebook use the information people share to make money? Facebook uses the information people share to make money by using the data to give to advertising companies, which in turn, pay Facebook for the data they receive so that they can target Facebook users with more individualized advertising. The advertising business can choose who they want ads to be shown to, customized to be relevant to the person's personal interests and likes. The more ads that users see on Facebook, the more money Facebook earns from the advertising company. Therefore, the exposure of the information people share to advertising companies, in order to place these advertisements, earn them money. Describe the issues that Facebook should address. Issues that Facebook should address include: Privacy - The privacy of users' and their data should be kept private, and the issue needs to be addressed where other online companies target the user data, where the user clicks to see pages, and their online activity even though the user may not be online. Reliability - The reliability of Facebook's security system should also be addressed. Facebook needs to address how users are aware or unaware of how their data is being shared through their friends' apps, or shared to advertising companies. Also, users would need to be reassured that their data isn't distributed to other third party companies.

How will Google's privacy changes affect users? Explain the reasons for making the changes. Is there a way to prevent Google from combining the personal data it collects from all its services? Explain the users major complaint about Google's new privacy policy? How could the government regulate google's privacy changes?  all March 6 chut

How will Google's privacy changes affect users? - When you are logged into Google, the data that you search into its search engine can be culled to suggest videos for you on YouTube. If you use Google Docs, Google will alert you if you misspelled your friends' names or co-workers' names. Google will collect information from its devices that you use to empower the company to connect the dots from one service to another. Explain the reasons for making the changes. - Google wants to make use of all of its companies that they own. Plus all the data that they collect from their users worldwide. Google wants to use their services to its full potential. They want to tell their users that they are not drawing the users' profiles for their profit only. Is there a way to prevent Google from combining the personal data it collects from all its services? - No there are no ways to prevent Google from combining the data that Google collects from its services. Unless you are not logged on to one of Google's products. Even if you are not logged onto one of Google's services Google can still keep track of you by your IP address instead of your name. if you are logged on and you do not wish to be tracked you can delete your browsing history. Explain the users' major complaint about Google's new privacy policy legal? - The users are not allowed to consent to or reject this new privacy policy. Each users have different setting for their privacy so this new change will not allow the users to use different set of rules. How could the government regulate Google's privacy changes? - The government is carefully looking over Google when it comes to handling personal information of the people. Google settled this argument with the governemtn when Google made a mistake by exposing their client's email accounts. Google's handling over personal information will be audited every other year and they are not allowed to make changes that are misleading or deceptive.

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1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business and Employment- Online business 2. Identify all ITGS terminology and phrases (IT and social/ethical). Applications, Internet, UID, network, web, software developers, policy, analytics services, 3rd parties' applications. 3. Describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Privacy is the concern in this article because some software developers behind outside applications popular in the online community were "inadvertently" sharing user identification numbers. 4. Describe the relationship of the main stakeholders to the IT system. The main stakeholder which is the Ad networks is sharing identifying information about users with advertising and Internet tracking companies. 5. Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical issue identified in question 3. Facebook (IT system) modified its policy to forbid user identification data from leaving third-party applications and for such information to remain confidential if used by analytics services connected to programs (privacy). 6. Discuss at least one problem that relates to the impacts of the social/ethical issue. The problem here is that all of the 10 most popular applications on Facebook were transmitting unique user ID numbers to outside companies which violates Facebook's policy: data received from Facebook, including UIDs, cannot be shared with data brokers and ad networks. 7. Evaluate one solution that addresses the problem identified. Facebook user should have a choice on whether or not to allow applications to get their UID. Facebook should also tighten their policy and make it harder for Ad networks to share UID with third party applications.

How does apple propose to solve the tracking program? Describe two examples of data tracking services that people use. Do you think privacy is still an issue with phones and apps? May 17 cream

1. How does apple propose to solve the tracking program? Apple released newly developed software that cuts the amount of stored data to just a week and no longer transfer it to the owner's computer when the phone is connected. And if users disable the location services setting on their iPhone or iPad, it will stop collecting data completely. 2. Describe two examples of data tracking services that people use. - Foursquare: Foursquare is a location-based social networking website based on software for mobile devices. - Mobile Me: Mobile Me automatically pushes new email, contacts, and calendar events to your iPhone, Mac, and PC. So your devices always stay in perfect sync. 3. Do you think privacy is still an issue with phones and apps? Of course yes because mobile devices are connected to networks for all the time in order to access to files and media. Privacy is always going to be an issue with phones and apps because even though Apple is storing data for shorter time, the stored data can be used or leaked anytime when threats attack.

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1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, Government 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Apple, Google, iOS device users 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Privacy, Anonymity 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. iPhone smartphone - Apple's iPhone smartphone that includes various smart features such as receiving e-mail, and application, more than just the average phone. Location recognition - the feature on the iPhone that allows the users to be recognized by their location near wifi hubs. Apple was ordered to encrypt location data of people using iPhones to address privacy concerns but the users claim that the device secretly collected information of the users' whereabouts. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). A solution to the privacy issue would be for users to turn off the location-recognition features on their iPhones so that Apple doesn't have access to your phone. Apple needs to be more careful with their data collection process, as well as encrypting the data so there is no breach of privacy of its users, or completely get rid of the whole system itself.

Describe the two issues that came up from the technical problems that interrupted computer services provided by Amazon. Why is the cloud model gaining popularity? List the problems that companies reported. april 28 az

1) Describe the two issues that came up from the technical problems that interrupted computer services provided by Amazon. One of the issues is that Amazon need to reconsider the contracts that cover cloud services such as how much to pay for backup and recovery services, including paying extra for data centers in different locations. The reason for this is because small businesses are less apt to pay for extensive backup and recovery services. The second issue would be many companies are relying too much on remote computers that are beyond their control. So they need to reconsider that also. The technical problem that interrupted computer services provided by Amazon told its customers and users that there may be a reliability problem with Amazon's service in online computing in the cloud. Companies and businesses operation network now revolves a lot around these remote network systems, so this also affects how companies will reconsider their use of exporting their files and data as opposed to keeping them within the company walls. 2) Why is the cloud model gaining popularity? Because owning a data center is high maintenance and therefore expensive. By using the cloud model, companies are avoiding the costs and headaches of running their own data centers. They just simply tap in, over the Web, to computer processing and storage without owning the actual machines or operating software. Businesses can also save their time by outsourcing to the cloud to save having to keep track of running their own data centers. 3) List the problems that companies reported. ( Unable to access data Service interruptions Sites being shut down

What is DR? What is problem with Laissez-Faire DR? What are the advantages and disadvantages using cloud on DR? all April 26 Martin

What is DR? - Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity. While business continuity involves planning for keeping all aspects of a business functioning in the midst of disruptive events, disaster recovery focuses on the IT or technology systems that support business functions What is problem with Laissez-Faire DR? - The problem with Laissez-Faire DR is data loss Laissez-Faire DR can't do anything when you data are hacked What are the advantages and disadvantages using cloud on DR? - One of the advantages of using cloud on DR is it is easy to access. You just need a computer to access your data. - Disadvantage for using cloud on DR is lack of back up. When you lose your data, your data can be lost.

Identify the issue and scenario. Describe 3 incidents of cyberattacks by China. List some of the most desired data. Describe how the US is responding to these cyberthreats. all nov 10 kuni

Identify the issue and scenario. China and Russia have been accused of cyber espionage, stealing technological and commercial information from The USA and its Allies. Describe 3 incidents of cyberattacks by China. 1. Google allege that intellectual property was stolen in a computer attack that also targeted at least 20 other large companies. And earlier this year Mountain View, Calif.-based Google said it believes hackers in China broke into the Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists. 2. Mandiant reported that data was stolen from a Fortune 500 manufacturing company during business negotiations when the company was trying to buy a Chinese company. 3. McAfee traced an intrusion to an Internet protocol address in China and said intruders took data from global oil, energy and petrochemical companies. List some of the most desired data. Data from global oil, energy and petrochemical companies, Fortune 500 manufacturing company, U.S. Government officials, and military's gmail accounts. Describe how the US is responding to these cyberthreats. The Pentagon has begun a pilot program that is working with a group of defense contractors to help detect and block cyberattacks. They have called for greater communication about cyberthreats among the government, intelligence agencies and the private sector.

Describe the IT terms. march 29 jenny

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1. Describe the IT terms. Patented - Granted and protected by rights. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state, national government, to the inventor for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of the invention. http://www.whatspatented.com/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/ Cloud-based - software systems that based on the cloud (internet) Voice recognition system- computer technology that uses audio input to enter data instead of a keyboard input. Audio input is carried through a connected microphone. The Software is designed to recognize words or phrases with an internal database. The program would then match the audio signature of speech with corresponding data in the database. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-voice-recognition.htm Cloud-based voice recognition - The voice recognition software the is important to virtual reality since it provides a fairly natural and intuitive way of controlling the simulation while allowing the user's hands to remain free. The audio signals are converted to electrical signals, and then transformed into coding patterns to which meanings have been assigned. Automated voicemail - Automatic voicemail system that stores voice messages. Goog-411 - an automated information service that uses voice recognition to find information for what the caller is asking for on local businesses. This also has a feature to send the information to the caller's phone via text messaging. Goog-411 has provided a foundation for Voice Search (search Google by speaking instead of typing, Voice Input (filling in any text field on Andriod by speaking), and Voice Actions (Controlling Android phones with voice commands). http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2007/04/google-rolls-out-free-411-service.ars Android - Google's mobile operating system (a modified Linux Kernal system). This is the software stack for mobile devices that include the operating system as well as the middleware along with key apps. http://code.goo

Explain what happened. Describe the issues. May 9 jen

1.Explain what happened. Sony suffered a hack on their PC games network, which lead to theft of online user's data from its PlayStation video game network. The theft involved 77 million user information. Sony is now hiring various outside firms to investigate on the matter, and try to find the offenders to this hacking. Cyber-security detectives from Guidance Software and consultants from Robert Half International Inc's subsidiary Protviti were brought in to help with the clean-up. 2.Describe the issues. Issues from this includes the reliability and integrity, as well as the security of Sony's protection system and online user's sensitive information which include credit card numbers as well as passwords. The reliability is the reliability of Sony's software. It might have failed to function properly, thus being a loop hole of the hackers to get through. The integrity is keep users' data complete and unaltered without their permission by the hackers. There is also a privacy issue because user's sensitive data was stolen.

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Explain the issue with Path. Evaluate Apple's solution.  Should services such as Path take or hold our data? all feb 21 johnroy

Explain the issue with Path. When you take apps by log in from your iOS device then it would take you personal information and put it into the Apple server. It does this without permission of the user. The reason why is doing this to locate the user where you are at and your friends. Evaluate Apple's solution. Their solution is just to add new feature so you would be aware that apps would take your private information and put into the main server apple server. When you're downloading or getting apps you need to approve that they get you privacy information. Should services such as Path take or hold our data? I believe that they shouldn't because it's hard to trust large companies. The information that they have could be sold to other person that interest about your privacy. Another possible solution is that the data that is stored could be hacked anytime and when this occurrence happens. The hacker can sell my privacy to someone or he directly knows where I live, what's my name and etc.

Why might smart phones be costly? Explain two possible solutions. all Nov 23 Tik

Smart phones could be costly because it's download, upload and connect to the network almost all the time. People that use smart phones and don't have good deals or promotions,and people use data more than they think, so the phone company can cost the data that we download, upload with the network, and smart phones can do many thing that use a lot of data and it will cost a lot of money, for example sending 10 photos it's take 10MBand watch video on youtube it will take 15MB per video, etc. In this case the solutions are that users should make sure that they get the right deal or promotion, that they won't get a big bill in the end of the month. Secondly, there are people that use unlimit promotion, but every deal have a gap, so the phone company should tell their customers, or send the users a messages to warning them that they used data more than the deal they got.

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Summarise: Facebook is one of the biggest social network that is used by millions of users worldwide, but recently it has been getting complaints about its security and privacy. Therefore, Facebook is clarifying their policy on User Identification Data, because third party companies are not allowed to share the UIDs it collects to ad networks. Facebook modified its policy to forbid UIDs from leaving third-party applications and for such information to remain confidential. Ad networks had to sign a policy deal to make sure that they delete any information they obtain. Any who break this policy get placed on moratoriums, and will be observed, so that they don't do it again. Not only were the small developers effected, but also big companies such as Zynga were also caught transmitting some information.

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1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, Goverment 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Mozilla, Google, DigiNotar, CIA, MI6, Mossad, Microsoft, Yahoo, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft's Windows 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Security 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. SSL- Secure socket layer certificates used for transmitting private documents via the Internet. It creates an encrypted connection between your web server and you web browser that will protect transmitted private information from eavesdropping, data tampering, or message forgery. Man in the Middle- is the type of attack where attackers intrude into an existing connection to intercept the exchanged data and inject false information. It involves eavesdropping on a connection, intruding into a connection, intercepting messages, and selectively modifying data. DigiNotar= DigiNotar is registered by the OPTA as a CSP that delivers qualified certificates that comply with the Dutch act on electronic signatures with respect to the European directive on electronic signatures. Sinces 2004 DigiNotar has entered the PKI hierarchy of the Dutch Government: PKIoverheid. This allows DigiNotar as Certificate Services Provider (CSP) to issue certificates complying with PKIoverheid specifications to government organisations. HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server. HTTPS connections are often used for payment transactions on the World Wide Web and for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Increase the security of the data for issuing a digital certificate to websites, and have updates of digital certificate periodically to check whether or not it has been compromised. Delete mo