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This consists of five (5) essay questions. You must select and answer four (4) out of the five (5) questions. Your responses must be at least 1 full page for each question, double-spaced, one-inch margins all the way around, in Arial 11-point, or Times New Roman 12-point, font.

Save and submit your work as an MS Word .doc or .rtf file. Use the American Psychological Association (APA) style (6th edition) for writing your assignment. Please do not plagiarize.

You must select four of the five following essay questions:

1. Why would a Security Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) be especially useful for an international bank? List some of the special issues that would arise with respect to an SVA with such a bank.

2. Select an Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) that you are familiar with that efficiently presents relevant information about its industry to the public at large. What do they do well? What could they do better?

3. Given what you have learned about the ease or difficulty of discovering critical infrastructure information, do you think the government has made it too hard or too easy to get this information? What would you change? Support your answer with examples

4. Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of prescriptive government regulations and performance-based regulations. Use at least one actual example of each type of regulation.

5. There are numerous ways that control systems are vulnerable to attack. Select one way this can be attempted and detail what the perpetrator might attempt to do to conduct such an attack. Detail at least three ways that this type of attack could be protected against in advance.