Research paper

PROJECT DESIGNWORKSHEET page 1

Name of Project: Engage-Explore Project

Start Date:11/09/2019

Course: DES 250

Instructor: Kerry Jones

Due Date:11/13/2019

Key Knowledge and Understanding (CLO’s)

1, 3, 4-5

Project Overview

Choose career interest, and an interview with a professional to choose a professional issue or problem that you will then research in order to create a project. This project is intended to help you begin to develop strong critical thinking and communication skills while establishing relationships. Completion of will require the creation of some type of finished product that has integrated all of the resources introduced and explored during the course in order to communicate a clear picture of the issue or problem. Completion of these steps and the final product will account for

Driving Question

After exploring and investigating an important issue or problem in society related to your professional interests, consider the following question:

How can I create a final project that will best synthesize the research to help myself and others better understand the underlying elements and factors causing and relating to my chosen issue or problem?

Examples of Professional Issues:

School of Business

1. Career Interest Area of Business Management: After the interview analysis, an issue that stands out is management’s ineffectiveness in the workplace due to the lack of proper training and development. Because of this lack of proper training and development, managers are not equipped with the skills and abilities needed to motivate and engage a diverse population of employees. This situation is leading to poor performance outcomes in many organizations. For the final product, a business student could create a video of several workplace scenarios that would reveal that issues/problems caused by this lack of training.

Criminal Justice and Social Sciences

1. Career Interest Area of Law Enforcement: One issue is women have long been underrepresented in the criminal justice workforce. This underrepresentation is despite the fact that research has repeatedly shown the benefits of women in policing, including the likelihood of not using excessive force, the ability to diffuse volatile situations, and their inherent skill at addressing violence against women. Underrepresentation of women in the law enforcement profession has been an ongoing problem for as long as women have sought it as a career. For the final product, a CJSS student could collect images of police officers in the surrounding cities/towns (or his or her own city/town) and compile a collage revealing the gender disparity with accompanying statistical support in the form of referenced data and sources.

Arts and Sciences

1. Career Interest Area of Exercise Science/Nutrition: One issue is the growing obesity epidemic in America. This proliferating crisis is causing many healthcare related problems, such as childhood obesity, rising healthcare costs, and obesity-related deaths. Therefore, addressing this issue would prove to be quite beneficial to society.

Step 1:

Interview

choose a career interest area that you are most interested in pursuing after graduation and write it below: Cyber Security

Career Interest Area Choice: (use a different color font for all your responses on this worksheet)

Now that you have narrowed your career options to a particular area, identify and interview someone in that chosen area in order to learn more about the career and discuss some important issues or problems they encounter/experience on a regular basis. Turn in completed interview question handout with interview signature and contact information for interview component grade.

Interview Response Here:

Question: What are the possible problems related to cyber security?

Interviewee: The possible problems related to the cyber security are unethical hacking and attacks through compromised IoT devices

Question: What measures should be put in place to reduce the problems?

Interviewee: There are different measures which should be put in place to address these problems. Some of the measures include the introduction of a password policy and access control systems.

Question: What issues are related to the unethical hacking?

Interviewee: The issues related to unethical hacking include the loss of data in different organizations.

Possible Issues Identified in Interview: There are different issues identified in the interview. Some of the issues identified include the ability of the interviewee to take a long time before providing feedbacks. This has resulted to consumption of a lot of time in the interview.

Step 2:

Project Ideas

Discuss Possible Issues or Problems with your peer research group, then research them in DragonQuest, and take notes here: The possible issues or problems with my peer research group is the inability to determine the roles of both ethical and the unethical hacking. According to my peer research group, both the two types of hacking should not be allowed. The other issues with my peer research group are the inability to come up with various ways of ensuring that the cyber security issues are addressed in the best way possible.

What is your chosen issue/problem? What is your rationale for that choice (why did you choose this issue and why is it important?): My chosen problem is unethical hacking. This issue has contributed to the loss of the critical information in an organization. For the purposes of ensuring that the issue is not experienced, the systems should be secured therefore ensuring that the access control is provided. I chose this issue because it has ended up affecting a large number of people and therefore measures should be put in place to address it effectively. Again, the issue is important because it will create awareness to the people on the manner in which they should carry out different tasks to ensure that the hackers are reduced.

Step 3:

Interview Analysis

Discuss what you learned from your interview on the chosen issue or problem and answer the following questions:

· How does what you learned from your interview align with your current understanding of the issue or problem? What are some possible causes and effects of the issue? What are some gaps in this knowledge that you need to better understand this issue?

Response Here: What I have learned from my interview align with my current understanding of the issue in that measures should be put in place to ensure that the cases of unethical hacking are reduced. It is through this whereby the security of the information as well as the data in different organizations will be provided. The possible cause of the issues is the ability to make use of weak security features in different systems. The effects of the issue are loss of important information in different business hence contributing to the failure of the business. The gaps in this knowledge that I need to better understand this issue is unavailability of enough sources of information which will enable me to borrow ideas on the ways of reducing the issue.

Step 4:

Annotated Bibliography: Research Findings and Analysis

(20 points)

Now that you have gathered some insight and perspective on the issue or problem from your interview. You will conduct on the chosen issue or problem and includes a summary and evaluation of three scholarly sources. After completing this, you need reflect on your overall research findings by responding to the following questions:

· Based on your research findings, in what ways is the culture/community involved in the issue/problem? Does the issue affect them? Explain. Do they affect the issue? Explain. (You could answer yes to both)

· What additional information about your chosen issue did you discover in your research and how does it add to your current understanding of the issue? What seems to be at the center of the issue or problem?

Response Here: Based on my research findings the community involved in the issue is affected in that they continuously lose their important data (Banda, 2019). This has affected the manner in which they carry out different business operations. The community affects the issue in a way which helps in ensuring that they do not lose their data. This has been achieved through the introduction of different measures of the ensuring that the issue does not affect them negatively (Chan, 2019).

The additional information concerning the unethical hacking which I discovered in my research is that we should ensure that the data encryption as well as the use of password is carried out effectively (Onifade, 2019). This adds to my understanding in that I am able to make use of the measures to ensure that the issue is not experienced. The loss of data seems to be at the center of the issue and therefore the issue should be addressed in the best way possible.

Reference List:

Banda, R., Phiri, J., Nyirenda, M., & Kabemba, M. M. (2019). Technological Paradox of Hackers Begetting Hackers: A Case of Ethical and Unethical Hackers and their Subtle Tools. Zambia ICT Journal, 3(1), 40-51.

Chan, S. H., & Janjarasjit, S. (2019). Insight into hackers’ reaction toward information security breach. International Journal of Information Management, 49, 388-396.

Onifade, A. B., Akinwande, K. A., & Shehu, H. (2019). Information Ethics: Islamic Perspectives on Privacy and Hacking. Journal of Knowledge & Communication Management, 9(1), 29-44.

Step 5:

Conclusions

Based on your interview analysis and research findings/reflection above, consider the following:

· What type of final product will best synthesize the research to help myself and others better understand the underlying elements and factors causing and relating to my chosen issue or problem?

Possible Options Here: The effective use of the internet sources will best synthesize the research to help myself and others in better understanding the underlying elements and factors causing and relating to unethical hacking. Majority of people should be encouraged to make use of the internet sources for the purposes of bettering their understanding on the concept.

Final Product Choice and Rationale: To conclude, the cases of unethical hacking should be addressed in the best way possible for the purposes of ensuring that different systems are operated accordingly. The failure to address the cases of unethical hacking will make it easy for the security issues to be addressed in the expected. Again, the unethical hacking cases should be reduced hence ensuring that the losses of data are not experienced in different organizations.

Step 6:

Final Product

(75 points)

Based on the information you have gained by completing this Engage-Explore project design worksheet, you will complete the following as the final step:

· Create your final product using the Engage-Explore Project rubric as a guide for the requirements and expectations