Activity-Network Security-Different type of hacker

• Research one type of hacker and provide its description.

Hacktivist

-It is a hacker or group of anonymous hacker who gain unauthorized access to government's computer files and networks for further social and political ends.

For example,Instagram.

• Find one person who is known for that type of hacker and briefly give its details.

-Aaron Swartz,American hacktivist

-Arrested in 6 January 2011

-Cause? Breaking and entering charges due to installing a computer. Downloading an academic journal articles from an Institute.

Activity-Network Security-Breaches

• Two (2) examples of breaches. 

DDOS

-DDOS stands for distributed denial of service.

-It is a malicious attempt to make a server or a network resource unavailable to users, actually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the service of a host connected to the internet.

• What happens it occurs.

-It will attempt to make an online service or website unavailable by flooding it with unwanted traffic from multiple computers.

-An attacker will spread malicious software to vulnerable computers.

• How to prevent it?

-Install protection tools

-Keep everything up to date

Phishing

-It is a way that criminals steal confidential information such as facebook.

• What happens it occurs.

-It happens when someone on the web pretends to be someone they're not trick you into providing confidential information.

• How to prevent it?

-Always check the website you are visiting is secure.

-Use anti-spam software 

-Use firewall

-Keep your computer secure

LO1 Activity-Network Security

• What is Network Security?

It is designed to protect your network and its data from multiple layers of breaches and intrusions with hardware and software solutions. It also a process of strategizing a defensive approach to secure data and resources over the computer network infrastructure against any potential threat or unauthorized access.

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Network Security.

Advantage:

-To keep your computer from getting viruses or hacked

-To prevent cyber attacks

-Securing confidential information

-To deny program from certain resources that could be infected

Disadvantage:

-Firewall can be difficult to configure correctly

-Incorrectly configured firewalls may block users from performing certain actions on the Internet

-It makes the system slower than before

-Need to keep updating the new software in order to keep security up to date

• The importance of Network Security.

-It helps to protect your workstations from harmful spyware and to ensure that shared data is kept secure.
-A good network security system helps businesses reduce the risk of falling victim of data theft and sabotage.

LO1 Exercise-Business Intelligence

• Explain Business Intelligence and its purpose.

-It refer to the procedural and techniqal infrastructure that collects,store and analyze the data produced by a company's activity.
-It is a combination of related activities that include querying,data mining,reporting and online analytical processing.

-The purpose is to support better business decision making.
-Hence,to assist business executives,managers and workers to come up with innovative business ideas and make more informed choices about the direction their company should take.

• Discuss "Business Process" with example.

It is a series of repeatable steps taken by a team or company to achieve some sort of business goal such as managing deliveries,assembling products and onboarding employees.

• Identify and describe the business process model.

-It is the graphical representation of a company's business processes or workflows which means identifying potential improvements.
-It actually done through different graphing methods such as flowchart and data flow diagram.

Below is the example of business process model such as flowchart.

Research activity-Qualitative and Quantitative Research Method

• Focus on different methods of gathering data and material.Feedback the advantages and disadvantages.
• Choose the method that you will use in your project.Justify your choices.

Research activity-Tools and techniques

Research activity

For each of the tools:

·         Provide the description

·         Discuss its purpose

·         Give the advantages (2) and disadvantages (2)

·         Explain why organizations need to implement it

·         Explain what will happen if it is not configured/set up properly

MSCP

Project management plan is the process of combining system, techniques and people to complete a project within established goals of time, budget and quality. Hence, to make sure that the project has quality.

The importance of having project management plan is to make sure the planning is going well. Where planning project need to do by step by step to do for each task.Morever, to keep track of what we are doing for the project.

Project Scope
Project scope means the range of the project that you handle is big or small. It is initial phase of the project planning process. It typically involves drawing up a list of everything needed to create the framework of the project. 

Project scope is important because it will help you to ensure clear project goals and objectives and it helps everyone to stay on the same page throughout the life cycle of the project.

Project Cost
It is the processes that involved in planning, estimating, budgeting and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.

Project cost is important because to know how much budget that have been spend and to manage project cost effectively.

Project Quality

It is the process that is required to ensure that the project satisfies the needs for which it is undertaken.

     Project Risk

A risk is any factor that may potentially interfere with successful completion of the project. It is an uncertainty

that can have a negative or positive effect on meeting project objectives.Project risk is important because it help to improve project success by helping select good projects.

     Project Time
    It refers to a component of overall project management in which a timeline is analyzed and developed for the completion of a project or deliverable.