COM-520 Written Assignment 6 Project Scenario Always Fresh Foods Inc. is a food distributor with a central headquarters and main warehouse in Colorado, as well as two regional warehouses in Nevada and Virginia. The company runs Microsoft Windows 2019 on its servers and Microsoft Windows 10 on its workstations. There are 2 database servers, 4 application servers, 2 web servers, and 25 workstation computers in the headquarters offices and main warehouse. The network uses workgroups, and users are created locally on each computer. Employees from the regional warehouses connect to the Colorado network via a virtual private network (VPN) connection. Due to a recent security breach, Always Fresh wants to increase the overall security of its network and systems. They have chosen to use a solid multilayered defense to reduce the likelihood that an attacker will successfully compromise the company’s information security. Multiple layers of defense throughout the IT infrastructure makes the process of compromising any protected resource or data more difficult than any single security control. In this way, Always Fresh protects its business by protecting its information. Project Part 6: Windows Hardening Recommendations Scenario As a security administrator for Always Fresh, you have been instructed to ensure that Windows authentication, networking, and data access are hardened. This will help to provide a high level of security. The following are issues to be addressed through hardening techniques:  Previous attempts to protect user accounts have resulted in users writing long passwords down and placing them near their workstations. Users should not write down passwords or create passwords that attackers could easily guess, such as words founds in the dictionary.  Every user, regardless of role, must have at least one unique user account. A user who operates in multiple roles may have multiple unique user accounts. Users should use the account for its intended role only.  Anonymous users of the web server applications should only be able to access servers located in the demilitarized zone (DMZ). No anonymous web application users should be able to access any protected resources in the Always Fresh IT infrastructure.  To protect servers from attack, each server should authenticate connections based on the source computer and user. Tasks Create a summary report to management that describes a hardening technique that addresses each issue listed above. Provide rationale for each selection. Due to the Always Fresh expansion, management wants additional network controls to protect their growing network. Required Resources  Internet access  Course textbook Submission Requirements  Format: Microsoft Word (no PDF)  Font: Arial, size 12, double-space  Citation Style: APA format  Length: 1 to 2 pages Self-Assessment Checklist .

1. COM-520 Written Assignment 6
Project Scenario
Always Fresh Foods Inc. is a food distributor with a central
headquarters and main warehouse in
Colorado, as well as two regional warehouses in Nevada and
Virginia.
The company runs Microsoft Windows 2019 on its servers and
Microsoft Windows 10 on its workstations.
There are 2 database servers, 4 application servers, 2 web
servers, and 25 workstation computers in the
headquarters offices and main warehouse. The network uses
workgroups, and users are created locally
on each computer. Employees from the regional warehouses
connect to the Colorado network via a
virtual private network (VPN) connection.
Due to a recent security breach, Always Fresh wants to increase
the overall security of its network and
systems. They have chosen to use a solid multilayered defense
to reduce the likelihood that an attacker

2. will successfully compromise the company’s information
security. Multiple layers of defense throughout
the IT infrastructure makes the process of compromising any
protected resource or data more difficult
than any single security control. In this way, Always Fresh
protects its business by protecting its
information.
Project Part 6: Windows Hardening Recommendations
Scenario
As a security administrator for Always Fresh, you have been
instructed to ensure that Windows
authentication, networking, and data access are hardened. This
will help to provide a high level of
security.
The following are issues to be addressed through hardening
techniques:
users writing long passwords
down and placing them near their workstations. Users should
not write down passwords or create
passwords that attackers could easily guess, such as words
founds in the dictionary.

3. user account. A user who
operates in multiple roles may have multiple unique user
accounts. Users should use the account
for its intended role only.
be able to access servers
located in the demilitarized zone (DMZ). No anonymous web
application users should be able to
access any protected resources in the Always Fresh IT
infrastructure.
authenticate connections based on
the source computer and user.
Tasks
Create a summary report to management that describes a
hardening technique that addresses each
issue listed above. Provide rationale for each selection.
Due to the Always Fresh expansion, management wants
additional network controls to protect their

4. growing network.
Required Resources
urse textbook
Submission Requirements
-space
Self-Assessment Checklist
mmary report.
-developed and formatted procedure guide
with proper grammar, spelling, and
punctuation.
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5. Gender Equality in the United States and Iceland
FIU College of Arts Sciences and Education
Written by: Elise Alonso, Natalie Cobbs,
Sofia Duarte, Yvonne Gago,
Latoria Johnson, Glory Scollon

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Elise- Introduction
Define and explain the selected global issue
and its universal implications
• Give a brief history of gender inequality.
• Discuss how far we have come.
• What was the turning point in history that made gender
equality a global issue?
• Why is gender equality a global issue?
• Briefly explain how we are not in the right place yet.
Sofia: compare the US’ and the other nation’s
stance of the global issue
• Define the scale used to determine how countries are ranked in
terms of gender equality
(GII- Gender Inequality Index)
o What are the positives and negatives that are taken into
consideration

7. • Where does the United States rank in Gender equality? (In the
2022 GII survey I believe
the US was ranked 30th)
o What are we doing correctly/ incorrectly
• Where is Iceland rated on the gender equality scale? (GII
survey 2022 says #1)
o What are they doing correctly/ incorrectly
• Is the United States making any changes to policies regarding
gender equality that could
move us up on the list?
o What can be done?
Glory/ Natalie: analyze and argue your position
on the problem through the
examination of multiple cultural,
philosophical, ideological lenses
• Why is gender equality important?
• How does it affect everyone?
• How are people from different cultural backgrounds treated
differently when it comes to

8. gender equality, especially in the countries with the least gender
equality below:
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• Through a philosophical lens: take a deep dive into the right
and wrong, the moral and
political claims surrounding gender equality.
• Feminist philosophy
o Plato radically promoted the idea that in an ideal society, all
worthy individuals
would receive training and an education regardless of sex. He
promoted the idea
that women would inevitably become more equal to men if they
received
appropriate training.
• Gender Ideology: a set of beliefs about the proper order of
society in terms of the roles
women and men should fill based on sex.
o Traditional- men are the breadwinners, women stay at home
o Transitional- the husband identifies as having the primary role

9. or breadwinner
but also supports his wife’s desire to work if she prioritizes
household over career.
o Egalitarian- Roles should not be segregated by gender, men
and women hold
equal roles at work and at home.
• The gendered separation of roles.
• What is our position? What would an ideal world look like?
Latoria/ Yvonne: address the role of teachers and global
education in promoting understanding and
action on the global issue
• What can teachers do to promote gender equality in the
classroom?
• What research-based techniques have been studied and show
that promoting gender
equality in children is beneficial?
• How can we prepare our students for a world that is not
currently gender equal?
• How can we teach them to be part of the change?

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Closing Statement:
• Briefly summarize gender equalities importance.
• The United States and Iceland
• The moral rights and wrongs of gender equality
• Why teachers are important in this issue
• Wrap it up

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