Which preventive, detective, and/or corrective controls would best mitigate the follow- ing threats?

1. An employee’s laptop was stolen at the airport. The laptop contained personal in- formation about the company’s customers that could potentially be used to commit identity theft.

2. A salesperson successfully logged into the payroll system by guessing the payroll supervisor’s password.

3. Acriminalremotelyaccessedasensitivedatabaseusingtheauthenticationcredentials (user ID and strong password) of an IT manager. At the time the attack occurred, the IT manager was logged into the system at his workstation at company headquarters.

4. An employee received an e-mail purporting to be from her boss informing her of an important new attendance policy. When she clicked on a link embedded in the e-mail to view the new policy, she infected her laptop with a keystroke logger.

5. A company’s programming staff wrote custom code for the shopping cart feature on its website. The code contained a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be ex- ploited when the customer typed in the ship-to address.

6. A company purchased the leading “off-the-shelf” e-commerce software for linking its electronic storefront to its inventory database. A customer discovered a way to directly access the back-end database by entering appropriate SQL code.

7. Attackers broke into the company’s information system through a wireless access point located in one of its retail stores. The wireless access point had been purchased and installed by the store manager without informing central IT or security.

8. An employee picked up a USB drive in the parking lot and plugged it into his laptop to “see what was on it.” As a result, a keystroke logger was installed on that laptop.

9. Once an attack on the company’s website was discovered, it took more than 30 min- utes to determine who to contact to initiate response actions.

10. To facilitate working from home, an employee installed a modem on his office work- station. An attacker successfully penetrated the company’s system by dialing into that modem.

11. An attacker gained access to the company’s internal network by installing a wireless access point in a wiring closet located next to the elevators on the fourth floor of a high-rise office building that the company shared with seven other companies.

The need to be 270 word

Instructions:

Prepare a sales letter addressed to:

Dr. Jason Tanner

John A. Logan College

700 Logan College Road

Carterville, IL 62918

You should submit the assignment to me by the date indicated in the schedule for the class. No late assignments may be submitted unless prior arrangements are made with the instructor.

Background Situation:

Assume you are a marketing assistant for a large magazine publisher named Wilderness Publishing Company. You have been asked to write a sales letter trying to convince potential customers to purchase a subscription to Outdoor Life magazine. The cost of the subscription is $80 for 12 issues.

You may select the style of the letter (modified block or block style) and include the current date. Your letter should include a letterhead for Wilderness Publishing Company at 2112 Fairview Drive, Evansville, IN 47712. Your name and job title (marketing assistant) should be included in the signature section of the letter.

Grammar hint to remember: Publications are presented using italic print; therefore, remember to identify the magazine as Outdoor Life magazine (the word magazine is not capitalized or in italic print).

Specific features your letter should include are:

• Paragraph 1 – a technique designed to capture the attention of the reader.
• Paragraph 2 – information to develop interest in your magazine; include creative descriptions of the content of Outdoor Life magazine (including the type of articles and features included in the magazine).
• Paragraph 3 – develop your persuasive message to create a desire for the reader to want to subscribe as you introduce the price and mention benefits of subscribing.
• Paragraph 4 – tell the reader what specific action to take to subscribe to the magazine. Remember to use the action ending techniques of making it easy and specific to inform the reader how to take action to respond to your offer (for example, a toll free telephone number or postage-paid card to return). Also, the action ending should urge haste for the reader to respond and emphasize why it is to the reader’s benefit to act quickly to take advantage of the offer.

Please refer to the Writing Assignment 3 Evaluation Sheet to determine how points can be earned and lost.

(a) Consider three positive integers, x1, x2, x3, which satisfy the inequality below: x1 +x2 +x3 =17. (1) Let’s assume each element in the sample space (consisting of solution vectors (x1, x2, x3) satisfying the above conditions) is equally likely to occur. For example, we have equal chances to have (x1, x2, x3) = (1, 1, 15) or (x1, x2, x3) = (1, 2, 14). What is the probability the events x1 +x2 ≤8occurs,i.e.,P(x1 +x2 ≤8|x1 +x2 +x3 =17andx1,x2,x3 ∈Z+)(Z+ isthe set containing all the possible positive integers)? (5%)

(b) There are unlimited fake coins and only one real coin. The fake coins and the real coin are almost the same and can only be detected by a special machine. At the very beginning, there are two coins in a bag, one fake and the other real (but we don’t know which one is real). We continue the following process till the real coin is found: At the each step, we randomly sample one coin from the bag and examine whether it is fake. If yes, we put the coin back to the bag, additionally put in another fake coin, and randomly draw a coin for examination. The sampling process won’t stop until we find the real coin. Assuming that each coin (either fake or real) has equal chances to be selected, what is the probability that we sample 9 times but still cannot find the real coin (and hence has to continue the sampling process)? (5%)

(c) From a random sports news, the probability of observing the word “ball” and “player” is 0.8 and 0.7, respectively. For a non-sports news, the probability to observe “ball” is 0.1, so does that to observe “player”. Let’s assume that in any article, the appearance of any two words (including “ball” and “player”) are independent with each other. Also, the probability of sports news’ occurrences is 0.2. Given a news report x containing both “ball” and “player”, what is the probability that x is a sports news. (10%)

1. The following question refers to regulated enzymes in glycolysis.

Here is a summary of these enzymes.
glycolysis reaction #1 is catalyzed by hexokinase
glycolysis reaction #3 is catalyzed by phosphofructokinase (PFK)
glycolysis reaction #10 is catalyzed by pyruvate kinase

Which of the following statements about glycolysis regulation in liver cells is/are TRUE?

2. Select a word for each blank that makes a sentence which correctly compares energy yield per carbon from a fatty acid and glucose.


Oxidation of a fatty acid yields    select an answer   more   less   ATP per carbon than a glucose because there are    select an answer   more   less   C-H bonds in a fatty acid, making the    select an answer   carbons   oxygens   hydrogens   in a fatty acid more    select an answer   oxidized   reduced   .

3. Which of the following statements about triacylglycerols is/are true?

4. Select whether each statement that compares muscle and liver cells is true or false.


   select an answer   true   false   Both muscle cells and liver cells can synthesize ketone bodies, but only muscle cells use them.

   select an answer   true   false   Glucose stored as glycogen in muscle and liver cells can be shared with other body cells.

   select an answer   true   false   Ketone bodies can be used as an energy source in muscle cells, but not liver cells.

5. In hormonal signaling pathways, second messenger molecules amplify signals so that

Internal Control Case Study

Harper Theater is located in Midtown Mall. The cashier’s booth is near the entrance to the theater. Two cashiers are employed. Once works from 1-5 pm, the other from 5-9 pm.   Each cashier is bonded. The cashiers receive cash from customers and operate a machine that ejects serially numbered tickets. The rolls of tickets are inserted and locked into the machine by the theater manager at the beginning of each cashier’s shift.

After purchasing a ticket, the customer takes the ticket to an usher stationed at the entrance to the theater lobby some 60 feet from the cashier’s booth. The usher tears the ticket in half, admits the customer, and returns the ticket stub to the customer. The other half of the ticket is dropped into a locked box by the usher.

At the end of each cashier’s shift, the theater manager removes the ticket roll from the machine and makes a cash count. The cash count sheet is initialed by the cashier. At the end of the day, the manager deposits the receipts in total in a bank night deposit vault located in the mall. The manager also sends copies of the deposit slip and the initialed cash count sheets to the theater company treasurer for verification and to the company’s accounting department. Receipts from the first shift are stored in a safe located in the manager’s office.

Required: using Microsoft Word, answer the following questions and attach the document to this assignment:

1. Identify the internal control procedures and their application to the cash receipts transactions of the Harper Theater. You will find the Internal Control Procedures. The Internal Control procedures are establishment of clear responsibilities, proper documentation, adequate insurance, separation of assets from custody, separation of duties, and use of technology.  For each Internal Control Procedure, identify any Internal Control Procedures that Harper Theater has in place and/or is missing. Be specific and use at least 300 words for your answer.
2. If the usher and cashier decide to collaborate to misappropriate cash, what actions might they take? For each action, what internal control might be employed to stop the misappropriation of cash? Be specific and use at least 200 words for your answer.
3. Use complete sentences and good grammar.  

DO NOT COPY PREVIOUS ANSWERS THEY ARE INCORRECT

As you might expect, there has been a spirited discussion about which method is most effective in terms of the effectiveness of delivering course content, student and faculty acceptance of different modes of instruction and the cost to the state of using different delivery methods. As a result of this discussion, five questions have arisen that require the use of statistics to answer them. They are:

1. Does student learning as indicated by average grades suffer if they are taught using alternative modes of instruction: traditional in-class teaching, on-line learning, or mixed on-line/in-class method?

2. Do students have a preference for which type of learning to which they are exposed?

3. Is the acceptance of students of on-line methods independent of their majors?

4. Is the proportion of faculty members favoring on-line or mixed delivery the same for all colleges within the university?

5. Does the average amount of additional instructor time required to deliver courses on-line differ according to the type of courses?

- In order to determine which type of instruction students prefer, the university surveyed 620 students studying at Tennessee universities who have been exposed to different types of instruction. The results are shown in the Table below:

Please provide a statistical analysis. You are required to submit the following information:

1.) The null and alternative hypotheses being tested.

2.) The Critical test statistic (F or Chi-Square) from the appropriate table. If it required using the Tukey- Kramer method, show the Q score from the table AND the critical value that you used to make your decisions. Also, specify which mean or means are not equal.

3.) The calculated value that you arrived at and the p-Value.

4.) Your decision, reject or do not reject.

5.) A separate part of the answer must be a memo sheet written in word that answers each of the 5 questions and explains why you answered as you did using the results of your statistical testing.

Samson plc is registered for VAT.

The following information relates to the company’s VAT return for the quarter ended 31 March 2020:

1. Sales invoices totalling £330,000 were issued to VAT registered customers, of which £240,000 were for standard-rated sales and £90,000 were for zero-rated sales.

2. Samson plc offers its standard-rated customers a 5% discount for prompt payment. This discount was taken by 1/3 of the customers.

3. Purchase invoices totalling £154,000 were received from VAT registered suppliers, of which £136,000 were for standard-rated purchases and £18,000 for zero-rated purchases.

4. Standard-rated expenses amounted to £28,000. This includes £3,900 for entertaining UK customers.

5. On 15 March 2020, the company wrote off irrecoverable receivables of £4,000 and £1,680 in respect of invoices that were due for payment on 10 August 2019 and 5 November 2019 respectively.

6. On 11 January 2020, Samson plc purchased machinery for £24,000 and sold office fittings for £8,000. Input VAT had been claimed when the office fittings were originally purchased.
7. On 1 March 2020, Samson plc purchased a motor car costing £28,400 for the use of its finance director. The finance director is provided with free petrol for private mileage, and the cost of this is included in the standard-rated expenses in note (iv). The relevant quarterly scale charge is £432. Both figures are inclusive of VAT.

Unless stated otherwise, all of the figures above are exclusive of VAT.

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO:

1. Calculate the VAT payable by Samson plc for the quarter ended 31 March 2020 and state the payment due date.

2. Samson plc is experiencing cash-flow difficulties. The company submitted its VAT return and paid the VAT due for the quarter ended 31 December 2019 on 15 March 2020.

State the consequences if Samson plc does not submit the return for the quarter ended 31 March 2020 until 25 May 2020.

(maximum word count 80 words)

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