Business Intelligence

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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