paper should demonstrate understanding of the subject “great american crime drop” . For instance, you should demonstrate an understanding of current theories about what did (and did not) cause that drop, and what it means for criminal justice policy. make a clear argument to support your opinion. you should try to make your own argument. You are perfectly free to disagree as long as you support your arguments with logic and evidence.

Your paper should demonstrate reasoned analysis and critical thinking. You should support your thesis with reasoned arguments and recognize and rebut potential counterarguments.

Provide a thorough description of the topic you selected.

Perform an Internet and library search for a minimum of 5 reputable sources. (5 Sources, .EDU are preferred)

Articulate a clear, well-developed argument which is supported by evidence.

6-8 Pages Long and APA Style

Project #4: IT Audit Policy and Plans

Company Background & Operating Environment

Red Clay Renovations is an internationally recognized, awarding winning firm that specializes in the renovation and rehabilitation of residential buildings and dwellings. The company specializes in updating homes using “smart home” and “Internet of Things” technologies while maintaining period correct architectural characteristics. Please refer to the company profile (file posted in Week 1 > Content > CSIA 413 Red Clay Renovations Company Profile.docx) for additional background information and information about the company’s operating environment.

Policy Issue & Plan of Action

The corporate board was recently briefed by the Chief Information Officer concerning the company’s IT Security Program and how this program contributes to the company’s risk management strategy. During the briefing, the CIO presented assessment reports and audit findings from IT security audits. These audits focused upon the technical infrastructure and the effectiveness and efficiency of the company’s implementation of security controls. During the discussion period, members of the corporate board asked about audits of policy compliance and assessments as to the degree that employees were (a) aware of IT security policies and (b) complying with these policies.The Chief Information Officer was tasked with providing the following items to the board before its next quarterly meeting:

(a)Issue Specific Policy requiring an annual compliance audit for IT security policies as documented in the company’s Policy System

(b)Audit Plan for assessing employee awareness of and compliance with IT security policies

a.Are employees aware of the IT security policies in the Employee Handbook?

b.Do employees know their responsibilities under those policies?

(c)Audit Plan for assessing the IT security policy system

a.Do required policies exist?

b.Have they been updated within the past year?

c.Are the policies being reviewed and approved by the appropriate oversight authorities (managers, IT governance board, etc.)?

Your Task Assignment

As a staff member supporting the CISO, you have been asked to research this issue (auditing IT security policy compliance) and then prepare an “approval draft” for a compliance policy. You must also research and draft two separate audit plans

(a) employee compliance and

(b) policy system audit.

The audit policy should not exceed two typed pages in length so you will need to be concise in your writing and only include the most important elements for the policy. Make sure that you include a requirement for an assessment report to be provided to company management and the corporate board of directors.

• For the employee compliance assessment, you must use an interview strategy which includes 10 or more multiple choice questions that can be used to construct a web-based survey of all employees. The questions should be split between

(a) awareness of key policies and

(b) awareness of personal responsibilities in regards to compliance.

For the policy system audit, you should use a documentation assessment strategy which reviews the contents of the individual policies to determine when the policy was last updated, who “owns” the policy, who reviewed the policy, and who approved the policy for implementation.

Research:

• Review the weekly readings including the example audit assessment report.
• Review work completed previously in this course which provides background about the IT Policy System and specific policies for the case study company.
• Find additional resources which discuss IT compliance audits and/or policy system audits.

Write:

• Prepare briefing package with approval drafts of the three required documents. Place all three documents in a single MS Word (.doc or .docx) files.
• Yourbriefing package must contain the following:
• Use a professional format for your policy documents and briefing package.Your policy documents should be consistently formatted and easy to read.
• You must include a cover page with the assignment title, your name, and the due date. Your reference list must be on a separate page at the end of your file. These pages do not count towards the assignment’s page count.
• Common phrases do not require citations. If there is doubt as to whether or not information requires attribution, provide a footnote with publication information or use APA format citations and references.
• You are expected to write grammatically correct English in every assignment that you submit for grading. Do not turn in any work without (a) using spell check, (b) using grammar check, (c) verifying that your punctuation is correct and (d) reviewing your work for correct word usage and correctly structured sentences and paragraphs.
• Consult the grading rubric for specific content and formatting requirements for this assignment.

• Executive Summary
• “Approval Drafts” for
  • Issue Specific Policy for IT Security Policy Compliance Audits
  • Audit Plan for IT Security Policy Awareness & Compliance (Employee Survey)
  • Audit Plan for IT Security Policies Audit (Documentation Review)

As you write your policy and audit plans, make sure that you address security issues using standard cybersecurity terminology (e.g. 5 Pillars of IA, 5 Pillars of Information Security). See the resources listed under Course Resources > Cybersecurity Concepts Review for definitions and terminology.

Purpose

The purpose of completing this lab assignment is to reinforce the concepts presented in this unit.

Directions

• Download Google Earth, if you don’t already have it on your computer.
• Download the .KMZ Google Earth file: Deserts and Winds.kmz
• Browse through Google Earth tour as you complete the questions.
• Complete the activity, entering your answers in to the Blackboard activity.

QUESTION 1

1. 1) In textbook section 19.1, you learned that there are multiple reasons for land to be dry. Examine the first stop on the Google Earth tour, the Patagonian desert, and assess which of the following causes is likely to the the reason that southern Argentina is so dry.

   		This is a subtropical desert near the Tropic of Cancer, where descending dry air precludes rainfall.
   		This is a subtropical desert near the Tropic of Capricorn, where descending dry air precludes rainfall.
   		This is a rainshadow desert, where moist air from the Atlantic moves westward, and has all the moisture extracted by coastal cities such as Buenos Aires.
   		This is a rainshadow desert, where moist air from the Pacific moves eastward, and has all the moisture extracted by the coastal mountain ranges of the Andes.
   		This is a west coast subtropical desert, caused by cold upwelling ocean currents (air chilled by contact with these cold waters is more dense and thus resists rising and triggering precipitation).

5 points

QUESTION 2

1. 2) Same sort of question as #1: It’s time to assess another desert and determine its reason for existing. Examine the second stop on the Google Earth tour, the Sahara desert, and assess which of the following causes is likely to the the reason that northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula are so dry.

   		This is a subtropical desert near the Tropic of Cancer, where descending dry air precludes rainfall.
   		This is a subtropical desert near the Tropic of Capricorn, where descending dry air precludes rainfall.
   		This is a rainshadow desert, where moist air from the Atlantic moves westward, and has all the moisture extracted by coastal cities such as Buenos Aires.
   		This is a rainshadow desert, where moist air from the Pacific moves eastward, and has all the moisture extracted by the coastal mountain ranges of the Andes.
   		This is a west coast subtropical desert, caused by cold upwelling ocean currents (air chilled by contact with these cold waters is more dense and thus resists rising and triggering precipitation).

5 points

QUESTION 3

1. 3) Click the next stop on the tour – “Badwater, Death Valley.” Hover your cursor over various points in the area, and find the lowest elevation. Elevation at the point of the cursor is shown in the data bar on the bottom of the Google Earth screen, toward the right side. What is the elevation of Badwater? Express your answer in feet.

   		About 2270 feet above sea level
   		About 270 feet above sea level
   		0 (sea level, exactly)
   		About 270 feet below sea level
   		About 2270 feet below sea level

5 points

QUESTION 4

1. 4) Examine Landform “A” (three examples are provided in Death Valley, each outlined in yellow). What landform is this?

   		delta
   		alluvial fan
   		bajada
   		yardang
   		inselberg

5 points

QUESTION 5

1. 5) Examine Landform “B” (it is outlined in orange). What landform is this?

   		delta
   		alluvial fan
   		bajada
   		yardang
   		inselberg

5 points

QUESTION 6

1. 6) Considering that the mountains flanking Death Valley to the east and west are about the same size as each other, how to you explain the difference in landforms (your answers to the previous two questions) on either side of Death Valley?

   		There must be less sedimentation happening in eastern Death Valley than in the west.
   		The east side of Death Valley must be dropping (subsiding) more rapidly than the west side.
   		The west side of Death Valley must be dropping (subsiding) more rapidly than the east side.
   		The mountains to the west of Death Valley get more precipitation than the mountains to the east of Death Valley, resulting in more weathering of the bedrock, and therefore more sediment production.

5 points

QUESTION 7

1. 7) Examine the next two stops on the Google Earth tour: The “barchan dunes” and the “parabolic dunes” in White Sands National Monument, in New Mexico. Which way is the wind blowing in this region?

   		east to west
   		west to east
   		north to south
   		south to north

5 points

QUESTION 8

1. 8) Measure the distance between the two placemarks for “barchan dunes” and “parabolic dunes” in the White Sands National Monument region. (The measurement tool in Google Earth is at the top – it looks like a small ruler icon.) How far apart are they?

   		20 feet
   		2 miles
   		20 miles
   		200 miles

5 points

QUESTION 9

1. 9) Considering this distance (i.e., your answer to #8 above), what variable is most likely responsible for the change in dune type over such a short distance?

   		sediment supply increasing to the east
   		sediment supply decreasing to the east
   		change in wind direction
   		more moisture, and therefore more vegetation to the east

5 points

QUESTION 10

1. 10) Enter the GigaPan that’s the next item on the Google Earth tour. Explore it – it’s full resolution. What’s the name given to the flat white landform on the right side of the image?

   		alluvial fan
   		inselberg
   		playa
   		yardang
   		star dune

5 points

QUESTION 11

1. 11) Compare the two alluvial fans outlined in purple in the northern Owens Valley (11A and 11B). They are different colors. Why?

   		One is an alluvial fan; the other is a delta.
   		One is made of dark-colored sediment derived from dark-colored source rocks; the other is dominated by light-colored sediment derived from light-colored source rocks.
   		One is colonized by people; the other one is pristine.
   		One was deposited by wind; the other deposited by water.

5 points

QUESTION 12

1. 12 part I) Explore the GigaPan at site 12 (Zion Canyon, Utah) and identify the sedimentary structures in the cliffs at the right. The sedimentary structures seen there are ____________.

   		graded beds
   		cross beds
   		ripple marks
   		mudcracks

5 points

QUESTION 13

1. 12 part II) Examine each of the placemarks following the sedimentary structure GigaPan. Which of these four settings is most likely the sort of environment where the sedimentary structure you identified in the previous question would have formed?

   		A) a river flowing into the sea
   		B) a delta distributary
   		C) a glacial moraine
   		D) a field of sand dunes

5 points

QUESTION 14

1. 13) What kind of dune is seen at the next stop on the tour?

   		barchan
   		barchanoid
   		transverse
   		longitudinal
   		parabolic
   		star

5 points

QUESTION 15

1. 14) Examine Landform “C” (outlined in yellow). What landform is this?

   		delta
   		alluvial fan
   		bajada
   		yardang
   		inselberg

5 points

QUESTION 16

1. 15) Compare and contrast the tectonics of the Zagros Mountains of Iran and the Basin and Range province of Utah. Representative samples of the landscape of both sites are outlined in blue as the next two stops on the tour. How did they form?

   		Both the Zagros Mountains and the Basin & Range are compressional, as indicated by anticlines and synclines at each site.
   		Both the Zagros Mountains and the Basin & Range are extensional, as indicated by fault-block mountains at each site.
   		The Zagros Mountains are compressional, as indicated by anticlines and synclines. The Basin & Range, on the other hand, is caused by extensional tectonics, as indicated by the fault-block mountains there.
   		The Zagros Mountains are caused by extensional tectonics, as indicated by the fault-block mountains there. The Basin & Range, on the other hand, is compressional, as indicated by anticlines and synclines.

5 points

QUESTION 17

1. 16) Examine the Aral Sea using the “history” slider at the top. Click the icon/button that looks like a clock with an arrow draped over it. Slide the bar all the way to the left, and then to various positions in time, going to the right. What happens to the size of the Aral Sea over the past 40 years?

   		It stays about the same size.
   		It gets much smaller.
   		It gets much larger.
   		It grows and shrinks, grows and shrinks, on a regular basis, expanding and contracting every ten years or so.

5 points

QUESTION 18

1. 17) Visit the Dead Sea next. This is the last stop on our Desert Tour. What is the elevation of the Dead Sea?

   		1363 feet above sea level.
   		13.63 feet above sea level.
   		13.63 feet below sea level.
   		1363 feet below sea level.

5 points

QUESTION 19

1. 18) Explore the world’s deserts on your own in Google Earth now. Identify a feature, landscape, structure, or scene that you learned to recognize from this lab. Do not pick one of the sites we have already visited, but DO pick a similar phenomenon at a new site. Take a screen shot of the site and save it to your computer as an image. Feel free to add any explanatory annotations to highlight the feature you’re focusing on. Rename that image with the name of the feature (e.g. “inselberg” or “fault block mountains”) and upload it here as your “answer” to this question. 5 points for uploading the image; 5 points for identifying it correctly.

I’ve made your Week 12 folder available to you. It has your slides, a recorded lecture, as well as a Lab lecture (remember that you are tested over the labs you are supposed to perform as well). I’ve made Lab 8 available, however you do not have to post the lab report. Your graded assignments this week are Discussion #4 (be certain to review the lab lecture, the recorded lecture, and readings before you do the Discussion), and a Case Scenario where you are being asked to evaluate a Healthcare Organization to identify the impact of disruptions to its IT systems. As with the STRIDE assignment, this is worth a significant number of points – 5% – of your final grade, so it is important that it be your original work (no copying from any source) and that you remember that you must make it relative to the systems and company in the scenario. Generic papers on BIAs are not acceptable and will not receive any points.