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Strayer University
Assignment 6: Designing COPPA Technical Safeguards for a Children's
Educational Website
CIS 349 – Information Technology Audit and Control
Assignment 6: Designing COPPA Technical Safeguards for a Children's
Educational Website
Imagine you are an Information Security consultant for a children's educational website. The
website collects personal information from children under the age of 13 and must comply with
the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Write a three to five-page paper in which
you:
1. Analyze proper physical access control safeguards for the website's data servers and
provide recommendations for securing children's personal information.
2. Recommend the proper audit controls to be employed to monitor data collection
activities and access to children's data.
3. Suggest three logical access control methods to restrict unauthorized access to
children's personal information, and explain why you suggested each method.
4. Analyze how children's data is transmitted between the website and its servers and
identify techniques that may be used to provide data transmission security safeguards.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all
sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s
name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Describe the role of information systems security (ISS) compliance and its relationship to
U.S. compliance laws.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in security strategy and
policy formation.
Write clearly and concisely about topics related to information technology audit and
control using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
Click to view the grading rubric.here
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and
language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Points: 50 Assignment 6: Designing COPPA Technical Safeguards for a Children's Educational Website
Criteria Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum
Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplar
90-100%
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