Question

Discuss how the Metro-E can contribute with respects to both the POS and Phone systems

From the perspective of Human Resource manager in HR department : Suggest ONE advantage for the POS and ONE advantage for the phones.

Request information from TWO other departments that could assist in your investigation. Please specify both the TYPE, and specific CONTENTS of the report you are requesting (Unit 3 types of output)

Discuss how the metro-E and the internet can contribute with respects to backups and disaster recovery

From the perspective of your department and management level, discuss the implications of backup and recovery over Metro-E and into the cloud.

Suggest ONE advantage and ONE disadvantage.

Discuss ONE security consequence that could arise from VPN access to the company’s IT infrastructure.

Critique TWO post made by group mates from other departments

Create the process diagram

DESIGN and DRAW a high level “as-is” process diagram depicting how the company could have complied a combined sales report BEFORE the Metro-E system was introduced (i.e. no connectivity among the sites).

Summarise and make Recommendations Summarise the information shared thus far, and discuss TWO findings about your analysis from your management level that can be used to justify the Metro-E and VPN solutions. Make TWO recommendations to prevent security breaches.

Answer 1

Numerous service providers offer metro Ethernet services by extending services metropolitan area network and wide area network. Metro-E services are rapidly increasing because of its advantages of Ethernet services which includes:

• User- friendly in-terms of usage
• More flexibility
• More services than metropolitan and wide area network environment.

The major disadvantage in metro Ethernet network :

Scalability: There are certain limitation in scalability for example, network management and bandwidth issues. The main reason is that system operators should posses efficient network management capability unlike in LAN network where system operators need not worry about Ethernet devices. However this disadvantage can be overcome by employing simple network management protocol in the layer 3 topology.

Finding full physical topology: This limitation occurs in ethernet network in which physical topology becomes difficult to find because of minimum spanning tree path.

Advantage of POS

The POS can be adopted easily by HR department since it is posses these advantages:

• Simple installation and deployment
• No room for errors by POS and reduces human errors.
• Faster transactions
• Web-based POS will have automatic upgrades , backups and easier system reconfiguration

Advantages of phones for HR department

Now-a-days HR insists to install management software so that HR can monitor employees phones and this is done by user policies which gives permission HR to monitor phones . Hence phones are added advantage for HR to check whether the employee works during his/her office hours or uses his phone for personal work during office hours.  

Discuss how the metro-E and the internet can contribute with respects to backups and disaster recovery

Metro-E can contribute to disaster recovery as well as backup by connecting primary and disaster recovery sites and by implementing real- time data replication and site to site replication. All of these process takes place in a secure environment. In other words, data is transferred from one data site to a secondary among a company locations. In traditional method, data is moved to offsite using tape or disks.

Advantage of cloud in metro-E

When metro-E is integrated with cloud, it reduces costs , enhances simplicity , flexibility. Metro-E using cloud can connect to hundreds of sites leading to interconnect business data offices. As well as provide connectivity to public and private cloud.

Disadvantage of cloud in metro-E

It may lead to increased use of infrastructure requirements and equipments in implementation.

Discuss ONE security consequence that could arise from VPN access to the company’s IT infrastructure

Even-though VPN is an encrypted communication where employees can work even at home through secure channel. There are numerous VPN providers but these VPN providers must ensure integrity is supported by ensuring the client risk profile is covered by the VPN provider. The company should verify whether VPN services are not peer to peer technology since an employee will be a part of co-user of wider network and where other users can use the company own infrastructure for bad activities.

Make TWO recommendations to prevent security breaches in company

By protecting the network and securing employees devices are reliable methods to prevent security breaches. The IT services provider should secure the network by employing encrypting the communication , perform frequent penetration testing and scans , using better non-commercial VPNs. The HR department can provide employees with management installed software phones by employing encryption , tracking software. The FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ) provides full detail and lists to prevent security breaches.