Answer the questions and participate in the threaded discussions.
1. Classic Catalog Company runs a small but rapidly growing catalog sales business. It outsourced its Web operations to a local ISP for several years, but as sales over the Web have become a larger portion of its business, it has decided to move its Web site onto its own internal computer systems. It has also decided to undertake a major upgrade of its own internal networks. The company has two buildings, an office complex, and a warehouse. The two-story office building has 60
computers. The first floor has 40 computers, 30 of which are devoted to telephone sales. The warehouse, located 400 feet across the company’s parking lot
from the office building, has about 100,000 square feet, all on one floor.The warehouse has 15 computers in the shipping department located at one end
of the warehouse. The company is about to experiment with using wireless handheld computers to help employees more quickly locate and pick products for
customer orders. Based on traffic projections for the coming year, the company plans to use a T1 connection from its office to its ISP. It has three servers:
the main Web server, an email server, and an internal application server for its application systems (e.g., orders, payroll). Outline a brief security policy and
the controls you would implement to control unauthorized access.
2. Central Textiles is a clothing manufacturer that operates 16 plants throughout the southern United States and in Latin America. The Information Systems Department, which reports to the vice president of finance, operates the central mainframe and LAN at the headquarters building in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and the WAN that connects all the plants. The LANs in each plant are managed by a separate IT group at each plant that reports to the plant manager (the plant managers report to the vice president of manufacturing).The telephone communications system and long-distance agreements are managed by a telecommunications department in the headquarters that reports to the vice president of finance. The CEO of Central Textiles has come to you asking about whether this is the best arrangement, or whether it would make more sense to integrate the three functions under one new department. Outline the pros and cons of both alternatives.