Topic 1: Physical Security Best-Practices for IT Data Centers (and can include Safety, Hardware, Software, Risk Assessment and/or Policies/Procedures) Using the topic above, Describe the IT data center and create a physical security plan.

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ISOL634 Physical Security Residency Project

Project Requirements

Prepare a report to address all aspects of the assignment.  This report should be no less than 10 pages of content (excluding title, abstract, and reference pages). You need to include outside sources and properly cite and reference your sources.  You must have at least 10 references (a majority dated 2015 or newer), 5 of which must be scholarly peer-reviewed articles.  This report needs to be in proper APA format.

Paper Sections

The following sections should be outlined as Headers in the paper.

Introduction: thesis statement, overview, purpose Background: discuss history of topic Discussion: identify benefits, obstacles, innovations Conclusion: summarize the overall study, lessons learned References: minimum ten references with citations in the body

Be prepared to present a 10-15 minute presentation on this assignment.

Topic 1: Physical Security Best-Practices for IT Data Centers (and can include Safety, Hardware, Software, Risk Assessment and/or Policies/Procedures)

Using the topic above, write a research paper meeting the requirements above. Describe the IT data center and create a physical security plan.

Topic 2: Faculty Security Plan

Use the following case study of two Universities and their attempts to protect against Laptop theft http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.154.8259&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Submit a Facility Security Plan that would have helped prevent this organization from experiencing this failure

Here is a sample FSP(Facility Security Plan) to review

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ISC-Facility-Security-Plan-Guide-2015-508.pdf

Details of Residency Project:

Once the paper is completed, add an Abstract to the start of the paper. The Abstract must contain at least one Hypothesis and a Synopsis of what is contained in the paper.  For this paper, a Hypothesis is a statement you believe to be true based on the research you conducted.  As an example: “Small businesses are less likely to provide adequate physical security”.

The quality and thoroughness of the paper, as defined in the rubric, will determine the grade assigned.  Papers containing the minimum number of references and/or minimum number of pages will most likely not earn a high grade.

Go to http:// inside.ucumberlands.edu/library and search the Databases/Journals

Other sources include:

Academic Search Complete                                         Google Scholar  ERIC       ProQuest Dissertations & Theses                              ACM Digital Library          IEEE Xplore Computing Research Repository (CoRR) Microsoft Academic        CiteSeerX Find White Papers                                                           ScienceDirect     Web of Science (and InCites ESI & JCR)   Computers & Applied Sciences Complete Computing Database (1998-current)                        Homeland Security Digital Library               

Journals include:

Journal of Physical Security                                         

Security Management Journal of Applied Security Research      

Security Journal                               

Computer World Security Technology & Design                    

Technology Executive                                   

iSecurity Security Technology Executive                  

Information Security                                      

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