Wireless/It Infrastructure Design/Cybercrime Will Wireless

Wireless/It Infrastructure Design/Cybercrime

Will wireless prevail? Why or why not? To answer this question, form a hypothesis question on this topic. Then create the null hypothesis for your test hypothesis. Make sure you provide at least two sources to support your hypothesis. Provide one source that does not.

Connecting to the Internet wirelessly "requires different equipment than is used for a hard line connection (such as dialup, cable, or DSL)" and typically makes use of a special kind of wireless router (Wireless internet service, 2010, High Speed Internet Access Guide). However, the new form of wireless in the form of Wireless Internet service providers (or WISPs, for short) use towers to "transmit their Internet signals in a fashion similar to how cell phone towers operate" and enable users to access services such as WiMax, which delivers maximum speeds up to 7 Mbps (Wireless internet service, 2010, High Speed Internet Access Guide).

WISPs provide additional benefits for individuals who do most of their computing over the phone. WISP's "increase in speed means that you no longer have to limit your mobile computing activities to basic email and text messaging. When you use a high speed wireless Internet service provider, you can download streaming media and other large file formats just as easily as you could with the broadband Internet connection in your home or at the office" (Wireless internet service, 2010, High Speed Internet Access Guide). WISPs have yet to penetrate more than a few sections of the nation, however and many believe that the technology's additional benefits are over-exaggerated. WISPs currently vary widely in terms of their speed and security features throughout the nation, and can provide less reliable connections for the home than cable or DSL in many areas (Mitchell 2011).

Hypothesis: As WISPs continue to penetrate the nation's infrastructure, this form of wireless technology will subsume other methods of Internet connections.

Null hypothesis: WISP connections will not subsume other methods of Internet connections because of the limitations of the technology.

Q2. What could happen if security is not tightly implemented in it infrastructure design? Why should we care? In answering these questions list at least 5 crucial variables for test consideration. Why must we include these 5 variables into our research design? Provide at least two sources to support your answer/variable selection.

A lack of tight security implementation makes a system vulnerable to viruses and other malware attacks. This can result in failure of the system, and also an even more widespread computer failure, as viruses are spread from user to user. Security encroachments are also serious matters when users entrust personal information to a company or the government, such as Social Security and credit card numbers and credit card data. Encryption of sensitive data; limits to entry by unauthorized users; regular maintenance (ensuring users are forced to use very secure passwords and to change them regularly); keeping track of regular patterns of use so unusual activity can be spotted by the system; and periodic 'test runs' of attacks are all essential for a high-functioning secure system (McNamara 2011). Significant vulnerabilities may be found over time, given the speed with which new threats and penetration techniques are being created worldwide (Hoover 2010).

Q3. Create a survey of 5 questions with the following 5 level scale: Strongly Agree, Agree, Uncertain, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree. Your questions must revolve around the topic of cybercrime. Make sure the questions are generic and not personal.

1. I feel that I am likely to be the victim of cybercrime at some point during my life.