After reading the article “Don’t Include Social Engineering in Penetration Tests,” discuss whether social engineering should be included as part of a penetration test. Knowing that the human is the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain, is it ethical as part of the pen test to engage in behavior that the author describes as a “grey area: compromising staff members’ personal devices or personal email accounts (as opposed to work accounts); breaking into office buildings to steal equipment or plant network monitoring devices; compromising social media accounts to perform recon; etc.”? (Kaplan-Moss, 2017)
Review several of your fellow learners’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by end of Day 7 of the week. In your response to your classmates’ posts:
• Do you agree with your fellow learners’ assessments of social engineering as part of penetration testing?
• Try to expand on your rationale by asking your classmates questions and provide additional resources and evidence to support your claims and extending their thoughts on their point of view.

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This week, you learned about the benefits of a management console for a cloud deployment and gained particular insight on AWS’s Management Console, a web interface that allows you to access many AWS services from one place.
Can you imagine what it would be like to work in a cloud environment without such a tool?

Address the following questions in your discussion. You must answer all questions in your initial post and respond to two of your classmates’ posts.

How will you use the AWS Management Console?

How user-friendly is the management console?

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The Strategic Audit Report will enable you to gain an understanding of a business’s strategic position, financial posture, leadership team, internal and external environment that impacts them, and corporate resources (which include marketing, finance, human resources, information technology, and other elements).

In Module 9, you will compile and submit all of the information for your report, which will then be implemented into a formatted final strategic audit report.

Select an Aviation or Business related organization to research and then write an introductory overview to use as part of the strategic audit report that you will create throughout the term. Do not use an organization you have researched in another course; use only original researched material.

It is recommended you select a publicly traded company (one that sells stocks) for your strategic audit company. Public traded companies are required to make all of their financial information and board of directors’ information available to the general public, which makes it easier for you to collect the data needed for your strategic audit report.

Your Introduction overview should include the following:

The name of your business.
History and background of the business.
Detail of what the business does and who its target audience is.

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