Case Study: Federal CIO Council's Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Toolkit
The consumerization of Information Technology (IT) has given rise to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon in which employees bring personally owned mobile devices to the workplace and connect them to the corporate network. The Federal CIO Council released a BYOD Toolkit that includes three case studies of agencies that are implementing BYOD. Read "Bring Your Own Device - A Toolkit to Support Federal Agencies Implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Programs", located at http://www.whitehouse.gov/digitalgov/bring-your-own-device.
1. Thoroughly Examine the three case studies in the toolkit in terms of:
a. policy implications.
b. "opt in" and "opt out" of government-provided devices.
c. expenditure reduction by the Federal government or State governments.
2. Thoroughly Examine the IT support requirements for the employee devices.
3. Thoroughly Examine potential security risks, data breaches, and lost devices. Provide guidelines on how these risks could be mitigated.
Term Paper: The Service-Oriented Architecture
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy allows businesses and organizations to offer their products and services to customers and trading partners using a standards-based integration protocol. Web Services depends on SOA for delivery. SOA uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) to exchange data and information to its products and services consumers. One of the SOA characteristics is that the integration is loosely coupled, thus simplifying integration.
Thoroughly analyze five ways in which SOA reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO).
Thoroughly examine five ways in which using XML enables data and information exchange between clients and servers using Web Services in an SOA environment.
Thoroughly compare and contrast the loosely coupled architecture to a tightly coupled architecture in terms of TCO, maintenance, and implementation issues.
Thoroughly analyze three advantages and three disadvantages of using a standards-based integration strategy.