Question (W8-9)

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Question 1: Your company is exploring the possibility of allowing employees to use their own mobile devices for their work and connect to the internal company network. In your role as the CSO, the CEO has asked you to brief her on what steps can be taken to implement a BYOD policy while reducing the overall risk to the organization as much as possible. Write your talking points for the CEO, including the associated risks with BYOD, potential security countermeasures, and your initial thoughts on how you would test their implementation to assess the overall risk level. This can be in paragraph form or a bulleted list of your talking points.

Question 2: Examine the primary reasons why project management causes a cultural change and the impact of that change on integrative information technology. Support your response with at least one (1) example of a cultural change that project management can cause. The literature affirms that project sponsorship is a major component for the successful completion of projects. Select an organization where you would aspire to serve as a CIO. Explore the role of a project sponsor, and highlight the significant reasons why such a position is pivotal to your organizationʼs success. Provide a rationale for your response.

Question 3: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of connected computing devices and objects using unique identifiers and sending data over a network without requiring human interaction. Many industries (for example, automobile, healthcare, appliance, et cetera) are or will be using IoT to operate more efficiently and better serve their customers. Research using the web or the Strayer Library to identify a recent or potential future IoT attack. Summarize the attack you chose and discuss why it was or potentially may be successful. Based on your research, are there red flags one should look out for when considering using IoT-enabled devices to avoid becoming an attack victim?

Question 4: As a newly minted CIO, you have been hired to join a company without a history of project best practices. Suggest strategy and process for your Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to develop standards for your organization that is without any such organizational project history. Justify the main reasons why

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● your suggestion would be effective. Reflect upon Kerznerʼs “Sources of Smaller Migraines” from Chapter 2. Select three (3) issues from the list. Then, specify the reasons why these issues are more critical to control than the others. Justify your response.