Discussions

Info Systems

Discussion 1

"The New Beginning and Prototyping" Please respond to the following:

• Evaluate prototyping as a technique for gathering quality business requirements. Determine the approach to prototyping that would be better suited for emerging technology projects.Determine if a combination of prototyping approaches would be more efficient. Explain your answer.

Discussion 2

"Risk Management" Please respond to the following:

• Explain why project risk management is a key component to bringing a project to a successful conclusion and describe the relationship between project risk management and cost estimation.

Computer Ethics

eActivity

• Organizations need to be aware of, and comply with, the Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) to ensure the safeguarding of cardholder information. Review the PCI-Data Security Standard, located at https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/, and be prepared to discuss.

"Data Breach Notification" Please respond to the following:

• Due in large part to breach notification laws, we have heard about many more data breaches in the past few years.

o From the e-Activity, describe the main elements of data breach notification laws. Discuss the importance of breach notification for credit card information, as it relates to PCI-DSS.

o Describe the concept of a safe harbor and how that impacts an organization when developing its security methods. Determine if breach notification laws should define a minimum level of encryption to qualify for safe harbor and describe why or why not.