Question

You have been asked to build a database for a pet foster and adoption shelter. The agency is a non-profit that takes in stray or abandoned pets and places them with foster care givers until the pet is adopted. Foster care givers are volunteers, though they must first be screened. The database needs to track all animals in its care, their species, breed, name and condition. It also needs to track all approved foster care givers and which animals are currently in their care. Foster care givers are also supposed to turn in monthly reports on the animals in their care. The database also needs to track the adoptions of the animals. Currently, volunteers come into the shelter and fill out a paper form. After a background check they are added to a file. Some volunteers complain that they are never contacted again. The shelter staff admits, they tend to go with foster care givers they know and some people get forgotten in the file. The shelter has also occasionally lost track of an animal in foster care when the care giver failed to turn in the monthly reports. Another recurring problem is that when someone comes into the shelter looking to adopt, it is not always easy or even possible to let them know about all the animals available for adoption. Ideally the shelter would like people to be able to register as a volunteer on-line. They would like to be able to call up a list of all available foster volunteers. They also would be like to be able to pull up all the animals of the kind a potential adopter is interested in and know exactly where those animals are and who is caring for them.

Would animals be stakeholders in this database? Explain why or why not.
What might be some of the shelter database security issues?

Answer 1

Questions are answered below, please comment if any doubts:

Yes, the animal also a stake holder in the database, since:

• In the definition of stakeholder it is defined as, “the stakeholders are either individual or a group of individuals who is impacted positively by the project”.
• Here the pets are also get benefit by the successful implementation of the project since they will be treated well and their management will get improved.
• Thus since the animals are getting positive impacts because of the successful execution of the project they are also a stake holders of the database.

Shelter database security issues:

• The shelters givers, the volunteers, and many users needs to be access the data base, so if the access rights are not properly implemented, it will results in the security issues.
• The database seems to have less confidential values, it is used only for proper functioning of the adoption firm, thus the security features are less, this may results in network attacks.
• The absence of proper security tests before actual implementation will results in security threats.
• The features of the security of the database may contain flaws; it also results in security issues.