One of the requirements of being a system administrator is to make decisions about overall structures and procedures. Below is a typical organization. You have recently been employed by this organization as the new chief information officer and systems administrator. Your first job is to clean up this organization's computing – what would you do? When devising a response you should think about the following 1. Design of systems and network. 2. Administration and Management of systems and network. 3. Service Management. 4. Security. 5. Operating Procedures. 6. Disaster Recovery and, 7. Organisational requirements. Provide a written response outlining the problems with this computing environment and why. Once you have done this provide either technical or procedural solutions to these problems. You are basically going to devise a computing strategy for this organization. Where possible outline potential technological solutions you may employ to solve a particular problem. For each issue-identified outline the potential impacts it may have on the organization and why it is important to address. For example you may identify there is no security and decide to place a firewall into the organization to fix this. If you do this what services would you allow in/out of your network? Is that enough? You may decide a CISCO Pix would be a good tool to solve this problem. Another example may be you identify the need to backup data. If that's the case how frequently should it be, what should you backup? Where do you plan to store backups? CSCI322/MCS9322 Spring Session 2015 – Assignment Four Page 2 Organisational Details. The organization in question is small software house. The software house is working on innovative software, which it plans to sell in the near future. Most code and documentation is stored on servers, which are publicly accessible via the Internet. The organization has a considerable investment in this data (for corporate purposes), hence its integrity and confidentially is important. The organization has a number of staff that are responsible for the management of the server infrastructure, however administration is somewhat lacked with many people across the organization knowing administrative passwords. At present there isn't a full time administrator – the administration of services and systems seems to be the role of several developers who know 'some stuff'. Employees of the organization currently enjoy free, open, unrestricted access to the Internet but realistically they only need to browse certain websites on the Internet. The management would like there to be a system in place to minimise the cost of accessing web resources. The organization consists of the following departments: 1. Research and Development (56 people) 2. Management (4 people) 3. Human Resources & Legal (5 people) 4. Finance (3 person) There are no concerns with the performance of the software/ hardware – though the management is confidant this can be improved. There are however major concerns about the potential impacts of disasters, downtime, compromises and the potential loss of intellectual property.