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CYBERSECURITYFRAMEWORKP3.docxRunning head: CYBER SECURITY
CYBER SECURITY 6
Iteration 1: Understanding Cyber security
Cyber Security Framework
Action Research
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Plan 3
Act 4
Observe 5
Reflect 5
Iteration 1: Understanding cyber security
Plan. Planning is a crucial activity in the research process, as it entails the preliminaries to the research activities. In action research, planning is an action conducted at every iteration, and this is because each iteration is a set of activities distinct from other iteration. There are a good number of activities that the researcher needs to undertake before undertaking the actual events of the action research. The anticipated tasks, their outcomes and resources needed, as well as people involved are as discussed below:
i. Researching the topic of cyber security. The first task to be undertaken will be to conduct some research on the topic of cyber security with an intention of offering an insight or understanding of the topic. The resources to be used include computer, the internet, books and stationery. Pertaining to the people involved, that will involve myself alone. The activity is expected to take two days. The result of this activity will be gathering information of what cyber security is.
ii. The second activity is to conduct some analysis of the information or data collected. The analysis will use some resources that include stationery and computer. Once again, only I will be involved in this activity. The analysis will be done with the aim of extracting the relevant content pertaining to explaining the concept of cyber security and related concepts.
iii. Lastly, preparing a brief report pertaining to the entire endeavour and lessons and outcomes obtained will follow. After all information has been made clear, a report will then be presented. The expected outcome of this activity is a well written report outlining all that was done and the outcomes of the various actions.
Act. Planning comes before the actual action can be taken. In action research, every iteration has an action phase where the researcher undertakes to follow the guideline or plan developed previously to achieve the goals and outcomes predetermined in the planning phase.
Another activity I undertook was recording the data obtained from these sources. Data recording was simply in the form of notes taken during the research. This was followed by data analysis where the researcher used content analysis to obtain the information from the various sources. Any content relating to the cyber security and related concepts was extracted from these sources. Lastly, I undertook to define and offer some more information pertaining to cyber security. Being the final activity in this iteration phase, I discussed various aspects of the cyber security concept and related this information to the main theme of the action research – that is, designing and implementing a cyber-security framework. This phase ushered in the next phase in this iteration where the lessons derived from this phase and the planning phase are highlighted and explanations offered where necessary.
Observe. The third phase of each iteration is the observation phase. The observation phase of an action research simply entails the analysis of the situations of the iteration in question. In other words, the researcher undertakes to extract some lessons from the previous iterations. Each action in the iterations is expected to bear some to bear some outcomes as had been predetermined during the planning phase. This is why the researcher, in the observation phase, takes note of all that went on in the iteration. The first iteration was a rigorous with so much to observe.
The researcher observed that there was adequate literature pertaining to the issue of cyber security. Researchers and practitioners have extensively documented the various issues regarding the topic and this only meant that the researcher could easily access data and gain an understanding of the cyber security. Secondly, there are several models of the cyber security framework that have been designed previously to address cyber security threats. This is an indication that the researcher would only be replicating the previous models only that the framework to be designed and implemented would be customized. This is because the researcher understands the problem at hand and develops a solution to the specific problem, rather than a general solution to general problems. The previous models be used not only as reference points, but also as controls to ensure the researcher designs and develops a viable solution. Lastly, there are several concepts closely related to the cyber security concept that would require to be clarified in order to draw clear lines between them. There are chances that these concepts would be confused with the concept under investigation.
Reflect. The final phase of each of the iterations is the reflection phase, whereby the researcher ponders the happenings of the iteration and establishing the relationships between the various phenomena. This is a careful analysis of the happenings of the iteration determining why things happened as they did and what effect they had on the outcome or other things. This is where the researcher makes various judgments pertaining to various issues.
Entirely, the iteration can be said to have been a success, and this is because the desired outcome was obtained after a careful performance of the various goal-oriented activities. Even though it is a wide concept that could take many days and a lot of resources to cover fully, he researcher was able to gain an understanding of the concept with the resources and timeframes allocated for this iteration. The planning went on well, and this is the major reason for the iteration success. Some things may not have gone too well, and this includes a comprehensive discussion of the concept and related concepts. This did not happen owing to the fact that the resources and time needed for that would have been too much. This is also a process that could be improved.
Among the challenges included time and resources, as their limitation also caused a limitation of the scope of the iteration. Given adequate time and resources, a comprehensive review of the topic would have been possible, and this could have implied a better framework could be developed. This is also a risk factor in that the shallow discussions exposes the researcher to the risk of developing an inferior framework that would not overcome the problems it is intended to.
