Write a ten to fifteen
(7-8) page paper in which you analyze and solve the following issues: Imagine
you are a senior systems administrator who has recently been given the task to
help improve security of your company’s IT infrastructure after a series of
network security breaches. These breaches included someone accessing the
network who was not authorized to do so, and authorized users being asked for
their passwords by someone who claimed to work in the IT department. You have
also been asked to implement IT troubleshooting best practices to help improve
the efficiency of solving IT issues that end users frequently experience. Your
first task is to ensure secure user accounts since most network security
breaches have occurred through social engineering means.

1.
List and discuss two
(2) user authentication policies that you can implement to help improve the
network’s security.

You have been asked to
develop an action plan that you will use to communicate the importance of IT
security to all of the company’s employees by creating two unique forms of
communication material (e.g., detailed email, detailed memo, brochure,
electronic presentation, etc.) to help disseminate the security message to
company employees. Approach the communication material from the perspective of
the core tasks these employees are responsible for.

2.
Create a communication
medium that:

a.
Caters to all company
employees and these employees’ core tasks.

b.
Approaches this from
the perspective of security best practices and awareness from the user
perspective.

c.
Includes at least four
(4) best practice methods.

3.
Create a communication
medium that:

a.
Caters to technicians
who work in the IT department and these employees’ core tasks.

b.
Approaches this
communication from the perspective of specific technologies the IT technicians
can implement to tighten IT security.

c.
Includes at least four
(4) different Windows 7 technologies, excluding authentication.

You need to present IT
troubleshooting best practices to junior systems administrators at an IT
department meeting to ensure departmental efficiency with solving issues. You
want to present some of these issues from a case scenario perspective.

4.
Create and describe
(3) scenarios where there is an IT problem that requires troubleshooting.

5.
Describe the steps you
would take to handle the situation by modeling them after an effective
troubleshooting methodology for each scenario you previously created in
Question four (4).

6.
Explain the specific
IT administration activities required to solve the problems.

7.
Use at least three (3)
quality resources in this assignment.Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality
resources.

The specific Course
Learning Outcomes associated with this assignment are:

·
Demonstrate
authentication and authorization in configuring secure user accounts.

·
Demonstrate operating
system troubleshooting techniques.

·
Demonstrate the
ability to understand operating system administration activities.

·
Use technology and
information resources to research issues in desktop administration and
operating system environments.

·
Write clearly and
concisely about desktop administration and operating system environments using
proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions

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