1. Case Study #1: Are Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) useful as a policy tool?

Case Scenario:

A client has asked your cybersecurity consulting firm
to provide it with a 2 to 3 page white paper which discusses the usefulness of Privacy Impact Assessments
(PIA) as a policy tool. The purpose of this white paper is to inform
attendees at an inter-agency workshop on writing Privacy Impact Assessments for their IT investments. These
assessments are required by the E-Government
Act of 2002 (See https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda_m03-22)
and must be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) each year by
agencies as part of their E-Government
Act compliance reports. OMB, in turn, forwards a summary of these reports
to Congress as part of the administration’s E-Government
Act Implementation Report (see https://www.whitehouse.gov/‌sites/default/‌files/omb/‌assets/egov_docs/‌final_fy14_e-gov_act_report_02_27_2015.pdf
).

Research:

1. 
Read / Review the Week 1 readings.

2. 
Research the requirements in federal law to
protect the privacy of individuals. Here are some sources that you may find
useful:

a. 
Alternatives
Exist for Enhancing Protection of Personally Identifiable Information (GAO-08-536)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08536.pdf
 

b. 
Guide to
Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) (NIST
SP-800-122) http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-122/sp800-122.pdf

3. 
Research how Privacy
Impact Assessments are used by privacy
advocates and other members of the public who lobby lawmakers or otherwise
seek to influence public policy. Here are some sources to get you started:

a. 
http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/privacy-advocates-say-fbi-facial-recognition-system-could-threaten-civil-liberties/

b. 
https://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/1006/

c. 
https://www.aclu.org/aclu-opposition-hr-3523-cyber-intelligence-sharing-and-protection-act-2011

4.  Find
three or more additional sources which provide information about best practice
recommendations for ensuring the privacy of information processed by or stored
in an organization’s IT systems and databases. These additional sources can
include analyst reports and/or news stories about recent attacks / threats,
data breaches, cybercrime, cyber terrorism, etc. which impacted the privacy of
individuals whose information was stored in federal IT systems and databases.

Write:

Write a two to three page
summary of your research. At a minimum, your summary must include the
following:

1.  An
introduction or overview of privacy which
provides definitions and addresses the laws, regulations, and policies which
require federal IT managers to protect the privacy of individuals whose
information is processed or stored in federal IT systems. This introduction
should be suitable for an executive audience.

2.  A
separate section which addresses the contents of Privacy Impact Assessments and
how they are currently used by the federal government and members of society.

3.  An
analysis of whether or not privacy impact
assessments provide useful information to privacy advocates, lawmakers, and
others who develop or influence privacy policies and laws in the United States.
Federal Officials who participate in the policy making process include: OMB
Staff, White House Staff, Congressional Committees and their staff members,
Members of Congress (Representatives & Senators).

4. 
A discussion of best practice recommendations
for ensuring the privacy of information processed by or stored in an
organization’s IT systems and databases. These recommendations should be well
supported by information from your research.

Your white
paper should use standard terms and definitions for cybersecurity and privacy.
The following sources are recommended:

· 
ISACA Glossary http://www.isaca.org/pages/glossary.aspx

· 
Guidelines
on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-144.pdf

Submit For Grading

Submit your case study in MS
Word format (.docx or .doc file) using the Case Study #1 Assignment in your
assignment folder. (Attach the file.)

Formatting Instructions

Use standard APA formatting for
the MS Word document that you submit to your assignment folder. Formatting
requirements and examples are found under Course Resources > APA Resources.

Additional Information

1.  You
are expected to write grammatically correct English in every assignment that
you submit for grading. Do not turn in any work without (a) using spell check,
(b) using grammar check, (c) verifying that your punctuation is correct and (d)
reviewing your work for correct word usage and correctly structured sentences
and paragraphs. These items are graded under Professionalism and constitute 20%
of the assignment grade.

2.  You
are expected to credit your sources using in-text citations and reference list
entries. Both your citations and your reference list entries must comply with
APA 6th edition Style requirements. Failure to credit your sources will result
in penalties as provided for under the university’s Academic Integrity policy.

For this discussion, post a short response to the following prompt before class on Wednesday, February 21st. Warning: this is a bit of a weird post.

We all narrate, all the time. In some ways, the seemingly slipshod modernist prose of Joyce’s Ulysses is an attempt to recognize how much we take in with just pure sense perception, but we don’t experience the reality in his stream-of-consciousness style. Most of the time we use our ability to synthesize memories to provide a narrative, a frame through which to read our experiences.

So, for example, I might structure a typical day within a pre-set structure, like a five-act structure:

1: Exposition: sets up Todd’s feeling of being overwhelmed with work, family, and other responsibilities. Todd is struggling against a writing deadline (stress and the deadline and competing responsibilities are the central conflicts)

2: Rising action: Todd writes and writes, while being interrupted by phone calls, emails, and the like. Todd finishes the writing project and sends it off. He leaves to pick up his kiddo, still overwhelmed. (narrative action reflects and intensifies the dramatic aspects of the conflict)

3. Climax: At pick-up, the sight of the kiddo alleviates the tension of Todd’s life. (the tension of the conflict reaches its peak point — in this case, the emotional peek is an alleviation of tension)

4. Falling action: Todd drives home with kiddo, calmly cooks dinner and taking care of unfinished work. (we see the consequences of the climax here)

5. Dénouement: Todd’s spouse arrives home, and the two read to their daughter, a nice family moment to sum up the day. (we have a single, paradigmatic moment summing up where we’re leaving this character and the conflicts that were set up from the beginning)

By staging it this way, I’m taking my experiences and setting them within a narrative structure, one that you can read to understand the emotional ebbs and flows of my life (which is one of the goals of narrative). Put to a wider scope, one might say that what I’m *saying/arguing* here is that everyday stresses seem overwhelming but are surmountable and not as important as interpersonal experiences like the ones we have with family/friends. Had I wanted to depict or leave the reader with a different idea about life, work, family, etc., I may have had the computer crash as the climax, with an ensuing angry sullenness that spoiled the family’s day as well.

For this post, try to sum up a typical day within a five-act structure like this. Try to figure out what you’d depict as a central conflict, where you’d describe the height of that conflict (in the climax), and then where you want to take the story afterward. If you have some larger point to make with it, that’s ideal, but I just need the structure, perhaps with a bit of explanation.

MUST BE ORIGINAL AND PASS ALL ORIGINALITY TESTS

Select a publicly traded company to research and evaluate its Human Resource (HR) and business strategy, HR department job positions, and ways it markets its company regarding human capital. Some company Websites that provide this information are listed below:

• Marriott: http://www.arubamarriottcareers.com/JobDescriptions.html
• Allstate: http://www.jigsaw.com/id209321_d40/allstate_insurance_human_resources_business_contacts.xhtml
• State Farm: http://www.statefarm.com/about/retirees/news_articles/hr_serv_assist.asp
• Ford Motor Company: http://corporate.ford.com/careers/career-paths/human-resources?&ccode=US

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

• Propose how you would ensure the HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy.
• Describe the HR job positions and the responsibilities listed for that HR department.
• Determine which HR job positions you would prefer and explain why.
• Analyze how the selected company can establish HRM strategies to improve competitive advantages.
• Propose three (3) ways that the company can increase diversity.
• Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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.