Emerging
technologies Requirements
Requirements:
APA
Format for paper and inline citations if used.
Paper
should be at least 5-8 pages to meet the requirements.
Use the template provided
down below to write the proposal.
Case study must be used.
Propose an emerging technology solution that will benefit the
organization in the case study. Discuss the impacts of this technology within
the context of the organization.
Examples of emerging technologies to be used.
https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2020/
Use
the Gartner STREET process listing each step explaining how it is used in the
adoption process.
(https://sites.google.com/site/aniketsaoblog/home/evaluating-emerging-technologies/street-process)
Additional Tips:
a.
Technology solution must be vendor specific and mentioned
in proposal.
b.
Write this paper from the perspective of presenting it
to the CEO of the company who may not be technically literate. Write to the audience so it is understandable
and clear to them what you are trying to convey.
c.
Paper should have headings that show the subtopics for
the solution, suggested headings are below.
d.
You must have sources in paper and at the end of the
paper in the reference section.
e.
There is no budget regarding the implementation of the
emerging technology.
B.
Suggested headings (in order they should appear in
paper)
a.
Case Study Summary/Organizational Need
b.
Emerging Technology Solution
c.
Adoption Process
d.
Technology Impact
e.
Technology Comparison
f.
Adoption Success
g.
Conclusion
Case Study:
TechFite makes medical
devices for the space program. They are in Houston, Texas, near the Johnson
Space Center. Security is a top priority for TechFite, partly because the
company works with NASA, but also because the proprietary technology that
TechFite is creating allows humans to work longer in space. TechFite has an IT
department that currently consists of 4 employees: two entry-level specialists,
a senior security specialist, and an IT security manager.
TechFite has a two-firewall
system in which the outside firewall protects TechFite and its partners and the
inner firewall protects the TechFite intranet.
The two-firewall system
creates a three-ring network where the innermost ring is the most secure and
the outermost ring connects directly to the Internet. Each one of these
firewalls creates a log of all the network traffic that passes through each of
the firewalls. The TechFite CIO has notably raised concerns about current
infrastructure security implications, but she wants her staff to propose
inexpensive solutions to meet future demands. There is a lot of traffic that
passes through these firewalls due to companies that want to securely
collaborate with TechFite and the need government agencies have to access
TechFite’s information. TechFite administrators have been researching solutions
currently available to meet the growing demands of secure collaboration, and
all suggested resources fall outside of TechFite’s IT budget. Additionally, it
is difficult to scan these logs manually, and TechFite has been exploring open
source solutions to automate log correlation for both host-based and network
appliances. However, the amount of storage space to keep these logs for at
least a year is more than TechFite has onsite. One of the system administrators
suggested using technology to not only review the logs but also store the log
files.
TechFite is being pressured
to comply with FISMA, using NIST as a security framework, when the company
works on government contracts. Other restrictions have been observed by
TechFite’s competitors concerning the handling of data across international
boundaries, namely in the European Union. The company is also being asked to
ensure FISMA compliance, even as budgets are shrinking, which is happening in
part because there are fewer space missions planned. TechFite is also looking
to work with the space programs of other countries, such as the European Space
Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and JAXA, the Japanese space agency. The
company is interested in collaborating with other institutions and companies to
expand its business, which may result in opening subsidiaries in other
locations domestically and overseas. This may force the company to store its
information for longer periods of time, and more locations means more log data
will need to be stored.
Besides scanning the log data
for potential attackers after systems have been compromised, the system
administrators would like to be alerted by a new system that meets FISMA
regulations when potential attacks are occurring on host and network systems.
This means that real-time log scanning and behavior analysis of incoming
network traffic will be needed to determine when a denial of service attack or
advanced persistent threat is happening so the system administrators can catch
the hackers. The system administrators also want to install honeypots to
attract hackers, and the logs for those will also need to be stored even though
these honeypots will not actually have real data on them.
The system administrators will
be busy keeping up with the technology they have, and they will not have time
to research new technologies that might help them do their jobs better.
Follow This Template:
Propose an emerging technology solution that will benefit the
organization in the case study. You will need to discuss the impacts of this
technology within the context of the organization.
A.
Write a response (e.g., proposal, letter) to the
TechFite adoption plan proposal by doing the following (each section below
should be a section in your paper):
a.
Summarize an organizational need in the case study, including the
scope of the need. (What is the organization asking for and why are the asking
for it? Summarize the case study)
b.
Propose an emerging technology solution to address the organizational
need from the case study. Provide justification that classifies this technology
as emerging. (Will this new technology solve the problem TechFite is currently
experiencing?). Remember you have to
research and find an emerging technology as well as find a vendor that provides
it.
i. You cannot just name
the technology, you have to find a supporting vendor/provider for it. The solution can be more than one technology
to solve the scenario as long as they are functioning together to solve the
task. You should also show examples of
organizations that have used the proposed technology successfully to justify
that the technology is emerging. Relate your technology to where it falls on
Gartner’s Technology Maturity Level (use this table in your paper).
ii.
Explain the steps of the adoption process that you recommend the
organization use to integrate the new emerging technology, including a
description of why each step is necessary and how each step relates to people
or current processes in the organization.
i. Use the Gartner STREET
process listing each step explaining how it is used in the adoption process(https://sites.google.com/site/aniketsaoblog/home/evaluating-emerging-technologies/street-process).
ii. Make SURE you are
relating each step to Techfite, don’t just list out the steps.
d.
Describe a positive and a negative impact that your emerging
technology solution could have on the people or current processes in the
organization, providing examples for how to address the negative impact so it
is minimized. (also what are the risks of using this new technology, if any?)
e.
Compare your emerging technology solution to an alternative technology
solution, providing at least two advantages and two disadvantages that each
technology may have for the organization. (there may be other technology
options out there for this scenario, but what makes yours different and
better? To be on the safe side select
TWO alternative technologies)
f.
Recommend a method that can be used to determine whether adoption of
the proposed emerging technology solution will be successful or unsuccessful,
based on the needs of the organization. (how are you going to determine if the
technology is successful or a failure? What period of time are you going to
test your technology?) What steps are
you going to take if it is a failure? What’s the fallback plan?
i. The measure of the
success of the implementation has to be QUANTIFIABLE…you can’t just say it’s a
success because it works there has to be some measurable way of knowing it
works through benchmark testing/metrics that can be read and compared to set
metrics that the system must meet to be considered a success. The metrics have to be compared to the
current method TechFite is using in the scenario.
1.
The graders are looking for quantifiable metrics that will determine
how this proposed emerging technology will be a success or not. I’ll use an example: Say you’re upgrading your network to all new
equipment to improve the quality of work for your employees. Once the new network was implemented you
would benchmark test the new equipment versus the old equipment in terms of
such things as:
a.
Comparison of old network vs new network speed
b.
Comparison of down time on new network vs old network
c.
Comparison of latency (delays) of traffic on new network vs
old network
2.
The measure of the success of the implementation has to be
by quantifiable means…Techfite is manually checking logs right now so one
suggestion would be to measure the success of manually checking logs versus
automated checking of logs and comparing the percentage of success of one vs
the other to determine success after a determined period of time. Come up with some successful percentage over
a period of time that catches intrusions and quantify that as being a
successful benchmark.
g.
Make sure sources are cited in paper and a reference page is at the
end of the paper.
h.
Make sure your paper is professionally written…this is a proposal to a
CEO/CIO, so you are not writing the paper from the perspective of a
friend/colleague
