Assignment

• Chapter 2 Security in Microsoft Windows OS

The format of your paper will need to follow the following outline in APA format (include title page, abstract page, content pages, and reference page):

INTRODUCTION

• State the topic you are attempting to cover
• State the issues involved
• State why we should be concerned with resolving whatever issues are involved
• State how answering the issues will help us
• State the implications and consequences of dealing with or resolving the issues involved

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE (2 sources minimal, at least 1 needs to be peer-reviewed)

Identify who has tried to answer the question before by doing the following:

• Summarize how each of the sources presents and deals with the subject
• Explain how each source presents and deals with its findings or results
• Explain the relevancy of each source to your topic
• State what you learned from each of your sources
• State in what way(s) each source contributes to answering your issues

DISCUSSION

• State your answer to your issue
• State how and elaborate on how, explain how, illustrate how each of the sources you previously reviewed help you answer your issue
• State what questions about your topic you still have that your sources may not have answered

CONCLUSIONS

• Indicate how each of the sources have contributed to your conclusions (and clearly, accurately, correctly document those sources within your text)

• State the implications of your conclusions

• State what might be the possible consequences of your conclusions

• State the significance these implications and consequences might have in the information technology / information security realm

DOCUMENTATION

• On a separate page, include a section labeled References which provides the full publication information for all the sources you used in your paper

• You should have a MINIMUM of three sources for your paper, at least 1 source needs to be peer-reviewed

• Not meeting this minimum requirement of three sources will lead to a lower evaluation of your paper for each missing source

• Use APA format for documenting your sources