Explain how three laws, regulations, or legal cases apply in the justification of legal action based upon negligence described in the case study.

TASK 1

Scenario
Review the attached TechFite Case Study for information on the company being investigated. You should base your responses on this scenario.
Requirements

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A. Demonstrate your knowledge of application of the law by doing the following:

1. Explain how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act each specifically relate to the criminal activity described in the case study.

2. Explain how three laws, regulations, or legal cases apply in the justification of legal action based upon negligence described in the case study.

3. Discuss two instances in which duty of due care was lacking.

4. Describe how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) applies to the case study.

B. Discuss legal theories by doing the following:

1. Explain how evidence in the case study supports claims of alleged criminal activity in TechFite.

a. Identify who committed the alleged criminal acts and who were the victims.

b. Explain how existing cybersecurity policies and procedures failed to prevent the alleged criminal activity.

2. Explain how evidence in the case study supports claims of alleged acts of negligence in TechFite.

a. Identify who was negligent and who were the victims.

b. Explain how existing cybersecurity policies and procedures failed to prevent the negligent practices.

C. Prepare a summary (suggested length of 12 paragraphs) directed to senior management that states the status of TechFites legal compliance.

D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

TASK 2
Scenario
Review the attached TechFite Case Study for information on the company being investigated. You should base your responses on this scenario.
Requirements

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A. Address ethical issues for cybersecurity by doing the following:

1. Discuss the ethical guidelines or standards relating to information security that should apply to the case study.

a. Justify your reasoning.

2. Identify the behaviors, or omission of behaviors, of the people who fostered the unethical practices.

3. Discuss what factors at TechFite led to lax ethical behavior.

B. Describe ways to mitigate problems and build security awareness by doing the following:

1. Describe two information security policies that may have prevented or reduced the criminal activity, deterred the negligent acts, and decreased the threats to intellectual property.

2. Describe the key components of a Security Awareness Training and Education (SATE) program that could be implemented at TechFite.

a. Explain how the SATE program will be communicated to TechFite employees.

b. Justify the SATE programs relevance to mitigating the undesirable behaviors at TechFite.

C. Prepare a summary directed to senior management (suggested length of 12 paragraphs) that states TechFites ethical issues from Part A and the related mitigation strategies from Part B.

D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.