Assignment: Compare and contrast the models

Assignment: Compare and contrast the models

Assignment: Compare and contrast the models

Q. Some authors make the assertion that there are no new security issues with cloud computing

at a network-, host-, or application-level. They maintain that cloud computing may exacerbate

existing issues, but that cloud computing does not present new security issues. Do you agree with

that assertion? Explain security issues with cloud computing.  Include how they differ from

privacy issues.  How are organizations and CSPs overcoming those issue?  Use examples and

references to support your answer. Provide at least one reference outside of the assigned reading.

Written assignment

There are references to security as it pertains to public and private cloud models readily available

on the Internet. Create a PowerPoint presentation that includes the following items for these two

types of models:

 Description

 Application-level security issues

 Host-level security issues

 Network-level security issues

Compare and contrast the models to help your audience understand the differences.  The

audience for your presentation will be the CFO of your organization who doesn’t have much IT

or security experience. The presentation should be a minumum of 12 slides in length.  (The title

slide, “Any Questions?” slide, image only slides, or References slides do not count toward the

minimum slide number.  Only content slides count.)  Use the Notes area of PowerPoint to

explain each slide.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.