1. Google's Privacy

a. Please read the Google Privacy Article.docx. The article discusses Google's approach to Privacy. What do you think about their privacy policy? How would it impact an organization that is contemplating using Google as its enterprise communication platform? What social media services that Google provides would you allow your employees to use, and what type of policy would you recommend the company adopt for the use of Google services? What security risks do you foresee using Google Cloud services? Remember to cite your sources.

2. Vulnerability Assessment

a. After watching the two videos on Vulnerability Assessment, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXyl0re1MZs and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqhdQ6I6dMA, how can you use this methodology to combat risk? Describe a situation where you would use it and why? What challenges would you face in using it?

3. Business Executive's Guide to IT Architecture

a. Read the article entitled Business Executive's Guide to IT Architecture, located here, http://www.opengroup.org/public/arch/p1/oview/.

Numerous organizations do not have a well defined architecture and the processes in place to maintain and manage changes. What are two reasons that IT architectures are important? How about a security architecture? Are they one and the same? Why should you care?