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Omega Inc. Bia Essay

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BACKGROUND
Omega Research is a rapidly growing research and consulting firm. They have a single main office located in Reston, VA and three small branch offices located in San Diego, CA, Salem, OR, and Kansas City, MO. Omega is not currently involved in e-commerce or business-tobusiness relationships.
Two weeks ago, Omega experienced a significant loss of proprietary data (estimated value $550,000.00) that was stored electronically in an Oracle database in their main office in Reston. The data was unrecoverable and backups were not being routinely maintained, so no restoration was possible. Although he has no hard evidence, Omega’s CTO believes that the loss resulted from deliberate deletion of files by a systems administrator from the …show more content…

* The IT Department is responsible for management of the networks and networked resources at the Reston facility. They manage more than 170 workstations and 6 servers performing the functions previously described. * Client machines consist of Microsoft Windows ® 95, 98, NT Workstation 4.0, 2000, and XP. Mac operating systems include OS/8 and OS-X, Panther. * Productivity applications have not been standardized. Some user communities enjoy Corel OfficeSuite ® while others appreciate Microsoft Office ®. There are various editions of these packages installed on client machines.

BASELINE ARCHITECTURE
Local Area Architecture (San Diego Office)

* The San Diego is essentially a mirror of the network architecture provided at the Reston facility. * Differences: o San Diego does not host a web server. o San Diego does not support VPN or RAS connections. o There are fewer employees working out of the west coast office. The local IT staff consists of one engineer who manages all networks and networked resources within the San Diego office. o There are less than 50 client machines in San Diego with similar configurations as the main office. o All servers have been located in a spare office in San Diego. * There is not a controlled access restriction like in the main center. * The office is not controlled for temperature, humidity, or static. * There are no redundant power

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