ITSU1003 : IT Professional Practice - IT Assignment

Internal Code - MAS3632

IT Professional Practice Assignment

Report Writing This assessment is worth 40% of your total assessment. It consists of a research paper and class presentation. There are 10 topics to choose from. 1. Write a paper on the malware attack that crippled the UK health system in May 2017. Explore the motive for creating the malware, and discuss theories on who released it. 2. The trend in the Australian IT industry toward outsourcing rather than internal development has been increasing over the past 2 decades. Discuss the motives for this, the disadvantages in outsourcing, and effects on quality of life. 3. Write a paper that discusses the appropriateness of Instagram's privacy policy. In particular, explore whether they have a policy regarding the sharing of your information with third parties. 4. Write a paper comparing and contrasting copyright laws in Australia and copyright laws in your country of birth (or compare with the United States if you are Australian born). 5. Write a paper that explains how the adoption of formal methodologies such as Agile or the SDLC improves software quality. 6. Write a paper discussing the ethics, risks, and benefits of allowing cookies into your computer and explain how the cookie technology works. 7. Write a paper analyzing the legality of the American's NSA program to collect and analyze the overseas phone calls of U.S. citizens without a court order. 8. Write a paper discussing the ethics and consequences of different types of workplace monitoring. 9. Write a paper that explorers the history of Google and then discusses the ethics of the current practices. 10. Write a paper that explores the methods Social Networking sites can use to make a profit.