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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PROJECT PROPOSAL: Problem: Since the Coronavirus Pandemic occurred in March; many employers have allowed employees to work from home using their own personal devices. An employee using a personal device will cause issues within the organization.

Solution: The organization needs to implement a VPN and provide employees with company based laptops or desktop computers.

Risk: inability to secure the host, lack of authority, lower malware defense and no protective solutions Background and Overview The pandemic has sent waves across all industries and work from home is the new normal today. As the company has come out of the 2008 stringer, time calls for building a strong plan of approach to come out of this pandemic as well. Employees have been working from home for 3 months marked by the onset of COVID-19 on their personal systems and working on personal systems leads to issues within the organization. There has been a significant number of reporting of such issues recently. Thereby the organization plans to tackle this problem by making an investment in providing remote systems and a secured network to its employees. Business objectives The project looks to generate an infrastructure that complies with the organization's bylaws. The investment made is expected to get a return of significant value and a purified work environment. It is going to consist of setting up systems working on cloud-based virtual machines that will be provided to the employees and setting up a virtual private network for work purposes. Project Scope 27 laptops with AWS virtual machines running on them and an AWS site to site VPN will be incorporated. The systems will be sent to the employees via FedEx.

Risks 1) The risk of infection to the outgoing employees for the setting up of the infrastructure. 2) The AWS billing duration lapse. 3) Effective and efficient communication throughout the process. 4) Inability to secure the host 5) Lack of authority 6) lower malware defense 7) No protective solutions Communication Plan:1)Motive: Solutions architecting. Medium: Microsoft Teams (Twice a day for 3 days) Audience: Cloud experts, Tech Support and managers 2)Motive: Operational Coordination Medium: Office platform (Once a day,Throughout the project) Audience: Operational Management and Managers 3)Motive: Support for employees Medium: DirectFrequency: As per requirement Audience: Employee and tech support.