Imagine that you are team leader of a security assessment team who has been hired to conduct a risk assessment for a research and development company with several government contracts. The organization has numerous buildings located across the city. Your team has identified communication and collaboration problems between team members when conducting security assessments. Team members state that the paper-based inspection checklists are hard to keep organized in the field when conducting inspections, and they would like to use an electronic version of the checklists. However, laptops are too bulky for field use. They state that team members are often located in different buildings and possibly different areas of a city when conducting assessments, and they would like to use a mobile technology that will allow them to communicate and collaborate with each other on security assessments. They would also like to have access to inspection reports located at the home office while conducting inspections in the field.

Write a 300- to 400-word proposal that identifies two types of mobile technologies that utilizes the Internet and the World Wide Web to improve the communication and collaboration efforts of the team.

Answer the following questions in your proposal.

In what ways might using mobile technology instead of paper-based checklists positively affect the process of completing a security assessment? In what ways might the process be negatively affected?