Trends

Trend 1

What are some things that stood out for you? What factors would you advise a company to consider when deciding on the way it connects to the Internet? How would you advice the CIO of a small, medium, or large company? Choose one and discuss the pros and cons of a couple of your selections.

Trend 2

Choose a couple of ways how your life would be different without the Internet. How would the business world be different? Think of the job you have now, a job you’ve had previously, or the job you’d really like to have and discuss what you think the impact would be based on your understanding of equipment used to support Internet access such as switches and routers.

Trend 3

Discussion Questions: Describe the benefit of a risk management program as applied to homeland security operations. How does the perception of risk influence risk management programs, including such aspects of weighting of risk elements and acceptable level so risk?

Trend 4

Served to illustrate the breath of the nation’s critical infrastructure and its interdependencies.Discussion Questions: In an effort to evaluate the cyber security threats in the public and private sector, research/locate two recent cyber-attacks and discuss its impact, some factors that made this system vulnerable, and our homeland security effort and response to protect this critical infrastructure.Read at least one peer-reviewed article on the topic of a critical infrastructure. What are the threats and vulnerabilities the author identified? How does the author propose we fix the problems? Give your assessment of the threats and challenges.