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.
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