CIS512 W2 CASE STUDY

  The Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service 

Case Study 1: The Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service
Due Week 2 and worth 130 points

Read the case study titled, “Brazil to fortify government email system following NSA snooping revelations,” located 

here

 and at 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/101413-brazil-to-fortify-government-email-274802.html

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Use the Internet to research the architectures that other government organizations and intelligence agencies use for email privacy, if any.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Examine the proposed business ethical problem that the Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service is presently experiencing. Determine whether you agree or disagree that Brazil’s problem is an ethical one that should be corrected. Provide a rationale for your response.

2. Assess the levels of security deficiencies inherent in the Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service original enterprise architecture. Conclude whether or not Brazil could have previously considered its current problem and built an original architecture that would have prevented the problem in question. Provide a rationale for your response.

3. Evaluate the quality of the Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service’s proposed architecture plan geared toward solving the security problem. Suggest two (2) other possible architecture solutions that the Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service should consider. Justify your response.

4. Determine whether or not one (1) of the governments or intelligence agencies that you researched has taken precautions to avoid a security breach similar to the one that the Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service had experienced. If this government organization or intelligence agency has taken precautions to avoid a similar security breach, provide one (1) example of such a precaution. If this government organization or intelligence agency has not taken precautions to avoid a similar security breach, recommend one (1) action that it can take in order to avoid a similar security breach.

5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

· Analyze the types of organizational and computer architectures for integrating systems.

· Develop an enterprise architecture plan to address and solve a proposed business ethical problem.

· Use technology and information resources to research issues in enterprise architecture.

· Write clearly and concisely about Advanced Computer Architecture topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

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News

Brazil to fortify government email system following
NSA snooping revelations

The country’s Federal Data Processing Service has been tasked with
the job

By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service
October 14, 2013 12:06 PM ET

IDG News Service – The Brazilian Federal Data Processing
Service, known as Serpro, will build a secure email system
for Brazil’s federal government following media reports that
foreign intelligence agencies intercepted electronic
communications in the country.

Via several Twitter posts on Sunday, Brazil’s President
Dilma Rousseff said that creating a secure email system for
the federal government is the first step to increase the
privacy and inviolability of official messages. Messages
require increased security to prevent possible espionage, she
said.

Brazilian citizens and government officials, as well as
Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company, have been the
targets of electronic spying by the NSA and other
intelligence agencies, according to media reports based on documents leaked by former U.S. National Security
Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Rousseff, whose communications have also reportedly been targeted, condemned NSA’s spying as a breach of
international law in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month. In protest, she also cancelled a
planned visit to Washington.

More recently, Brazilian TV network Globo reported, based on documents leaked by Snowden, that Canada’s
Communications Security Establishment (CSE) collected metadata for phone calls and emails to and from
Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy.

Last week, the leaders of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the

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Internet Society and five regional Internet address registries, called for the globalization of ICANN and IANA
functions following a meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay.

ICANN is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California that oversees the Internet domain name
space and IP address allocation. However, ICANN’s accountability to the U.S. government has drawn criticism
from many parties for a long time, including from the European Commission.

Pres. Rousseff announced last week that Brazil will host an international meeting with governments, businesses,
NGOs, civil society and academia in April 2014 on the topic of Internet governance following a meeting she had
with Fadi Chehade, the CEO of ICANN.

The Brazilian government is also looking into laying a new underwater fiber optic cable directly to Europe in
order to avoid routing the country’s Internet connections through the U.S. Legislation that would force U.S.
online services providers like Facebook and Google to only host information on Brazilian citizens in Brazilian
data centers is also being considered.

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