1. One of the big things that is becoming more popular, and now will increase at a rapid pace due to Enron and Worldcom, is the task of auditing. Auditing does not include just accounting/financial auditing but also systems auditing. As a systems auditor, what are some things you would look for and what questions would you ask to see if you could uncover some issues in the customer's systems and data integrity?


2. Why do you think there have been so many business failures among the "dot-com" companies that were devoted only to e-commerce? Who were the successful "dot-com" e-commerce companies that haven't failed? Why do you think that these "dot-com" e-commerce companies have succeeded?

3. Digital fingerprinting the technology is available though it may be limited. With that said, based on what you've learned thus far in the class, would the digital fingerprints be stored in what type of database and how would you retrieve and/or match on fingerprints? What design considerations would you have to think about when designing this database? Finally, what security measures would you have to take for this digital fingerprinting application?

4. You are the IT director. Your firewall detects a major intrusion over the weekend. You know you lost some data to the "outside". What do you do? How do you determine what was lost? How do you notify your customers and what do you tell them? How do you protect yourself in the future?

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