where is the total cost of ownership template and risk assessment template cloud-based technology solution?
We are Moving to the Cloud
Outcomes addressed in this activity:
Unit Outcomes:
- Describe a strategy to acquire a technology solution.
- Estimate the financial impact of a new technology solution.
- Prepare a plan on how an organization will protect its digital assets to prevent a cyber-attack.
Course Outcome:
IT592-3: Create technical strategies to allow an organization to meet its financial objectives.
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to find a technology solution to meet business and financial goals. For the technology solution, you will do a risk assessment and determine what security solutions are needed and their costs. In addition, you will work in a team for this assignment.
Assignment Instructions
Scenario
You work for a company that holds a Capture the Flag (CTF) competition once per year. In the past, competitions had at least 1000 people competing against one another. There are 100 challenges in the system ranging from general IT to cybersecurity. There is no way to know exactly how long it takes participants to perform a challenge; however, some investigations have determined between 30 seconds to 1 minute, on average. It is crucial that the system stays up during the competition. It is estimated that each year the number of participants will grow 10%. It has been decided that in the upcoming year, the system will be delivered to contestants from the Cloud as Software as a Service (SaaS) as opposed to being an on premise system. The main reason for this is because last year a power outage occurred, and the system was not operational for 4 hours during the 72-hour event. Management doesn’t want that to happen again.
You work in a small IT team, and your Director of IT asked your team to research at least two cloud providers for the CTF system. The CTF system was developed by Facebook, is open source, and runs on Ubuntu. You will also determine the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the two providers. At least one of the cloud providers you pick must be Amazon, Microsoft or Google. Your analysis should be done in report format examining the comparative evaluations of the two providers over a three-year time period.
Based on the Total Cost of Ownership analysis, your company will know which cloud provider to use. Knowing this, you will then perform a risk assessment by identifying the assets for the project, identifying the threats against the assets, and determining what security controls/solutions are needed. After the security solutions are determined, conduct Return on Security Investment for each security control. It is fine to make assumptions.
Assignment Requirements
You will work in a group for this assignment. First, you will setup group collaboration tools from Google. Setup one Google Group for your team and invite your instructor. You will use Google Groups for discussions and collaboration. Second, create a folder on Google Drive for all of your team collaborative documents. After the collaboration infrastructure is setup, conduct research on at least two cloud providers (at least one that you choose must be Amazon®, Microsoft, or Google) and provide background information as to why you picked the two that you did. The background information should be at least 500 words. Next, review the templates you found in an earlier unit or conduct research and look for a total cost of ownership template and risk assessment template. Feel free to make up your own templates. Finally, conduct total cost of ownership analysis and risk assessment on the cloud-based technology solution. Put all information in a Google Doc. and/or Google Sheet (using any templates you may have found). Make sure you shared all files with your instructor as you will supply the link to the Google Drive folder you created when setting up the collaboration infrastructure for your team.
Requirements: 1000 words | .doc file
No other info at this time.
It is a group project – But I am the only one doing it now
Other Teams Members – Dropped the course
It terms of the google drive part – I am taking care of that
The focus is basically the questions and templates
Use APA style where applicable. For more information on APA style formatting, refer to the resources in the Academic Resources of this course.
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