QUESTION 1:

After reading the paper, Managing Networks in the Age of Cloud, SDN, and Big Data: Network Management Megatrends 2014, discuss at least two network management concepts you learned from the paper.

QUESTION 2:

After watching the video, Wireless Security - Information Security Lesson #8 of 12, discuss at least two wireless security concepts you learned from or found interesting in the video.

Wireless Security - Information Security

Dr. Soper discusses security for wireless networks. Topics covered include wireless network concepts, wireless communication, the 802.11 protocol suite,

QUESTION 3:

Network Security Paper: In this paper, you will define the security strategies of Defense in Depth and Layered Security along with comparing and contrasting the strategies by explaining, at least, two advantages and disadvantages of implementing each security strategy. Support your information and make sure all information sources are appropriately cited.

The paper must use APA 6th ed., 7th printing formatting and contain a title page, 2 pages of content, and a minimum of three peer-reviewed references

Your assignment will be graded based on the rubric, which can be viewed when clicking on the assignment submission link above.

Assignment Resource(s):

Layered Security: Why It Works - This article discusses why layered security works.

This video, the first of 12 by Dr. Soper, provides an introduction to computer security. Topics covered include dependence on technology, information assets, threats, vulnerabilities, controls, confidentiality, integrity, availability, types of attackers, methods of defense, and multi-layered security.

QUESTION 4: SHORT PAPER

RISK MANAGEMENT: Why Projects Fail: NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter Project

In 1999 a Mars space probe from NASA was ‘lost'. A number of the failures related to project management according to the report of the subsequent investigation.

The issues

There was one cause of the space probe loss that hit the headlines: two teams involved in the space probe development were using different systems of measurement - one was using meters, centimeters and kilograms, the other was using feet, inches and pounds.

However, the wide-ranging investigation into the failure came up with a number of other contributing

factors:

There had been inadequate consideration of the entire mission and its post-launch operation as a total system

Communications and training within the project had been inconsistent

There was no complete end-to-end verification of navigation software and related computer models

Actions taken

As a result, the culture of ‘Faster, Better, and Cheaper' was replaced with ‘Mission Success First'. Actions taken subsequently for another project, NASA's Mars Polar Lander, included:

A new senior management leader was assigned

Work plans were freshly reviewed and augmented

Detailed fault tree analyses took place for pending mission events

Daily teleconferences took place to evaluate technical progress and plan work yet to be done

The Deep Space Network for communications with the spacecraft was made available to more staff

Independent peer review of all operational and contingency procedures was introduced

Reasons for the failure

There was inadequate risk management and issue control. The report recommended that future projects should conduct continuous risk analysis and discussion of issues from start to end of the project. NASA needed to foster a climate in which issues could be easily raised.

Minimizing risk was also behind recommendations that in future NASA should plan long-term for a different type of technological innovation, focusing on smaller, low-risk products that could then be incorporated into wider projects.

Clearly in this type of scientific project, there is little leeway in project outcomes and margins of error are small. The project had failed to set clear success criteria for the project outcomes.

The scope of the project had not been matched to the funding, leading to inadequate funding for defined outcomes.

The project was judged to be lacking in good team working and adequate and appropriate staffing. The problem was found to be poor communication between, rather than within, different teams. In particular the report called for better monitoring of the work of contractors. Better trained personnel were required, and project management courses were part of this recommendation.

Discussion

Risks and their management are critical to the successful completion of any project. Briefly discuss the various types of risk as stated in your project management books and how they apply in this case.

i. What could have been done to prevent them occurring in the first place?

ii. If nothing, what could have been done to lessen their impact when they did occur?

Please sight your sources of information. You are not to copy and paste from your sources. Provide your own thoughts based off your sources.