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Assignment: Research Project Description:

We have been looking at the advancement of encryption standards over the years. In today's locked down world with almost everyone working remotely, new challenges that require encryption and cryptography have arisen. When do companies need to use encryption? What levels of encryption and authentication are needed?

Pick an industry or company that has had to deal with the challenges. How have they addressed things such as:

• Websites

• Cloud storage

• Threat actors

• Vulnerabilities

• Security Measures and policies

• Email (both encrypted and not),

• Hash values to verify documents,

• Databases that store

• corporate sensitive / proprietary information

• employee payroll, health records, etc.

• vendor information

• credit card information

• other items as determined by the type of company

• Remote users that must be authenticated

• On site users that must be authenticated

1. What policies need to be in place?

2. What case studies are there?

3. What new problems have arisen as a result of the pandemic?

4. You will need to complete the following:

5. What data are you protecting?

6. What are the biggest challenges faced by companies in the chosen industry when using encryption

7. How do they verify and authenticate the users both local and remote?

8. What forms of encryption (symmetric / asymmetric)

9. What laws and regulations affect the industry?

10. What are common attacks / threats / vulnerabilities and how would you protect against them?

11. How have other similar companies dealt with this and with what results?

12. How would you test the method you choose?

13. What are the expected outcomes?

14. What new methods may be on the horizon that will help this industry?

Please note the following criteria:

Research paper:

Research Paper must be in APA Style

Research Paper must have at least 5 works cited of which 2 must be peer reviewed works/articles (note your book can be included as a reference)

Must be at least 12 to 15 double-spaced pages with standard 1 inch margins.

8 - 10 pages of prose