This document outlines a group research project for students. It asks students to write a 10-page paper and accompanying PowerPoint presentation analyzing the data security challenges faced by a particular organization and how those challenges were addressed. Specifically, students must describe the challenges, proposed solutions, data tools/databases used, and how risk concerns were mitigated. The paper should follow APA formatting guidelines and include sections on introduction, background, challenges, solutions, and conclusion. It must cite at least 5 scholarly references. The accompanying presentation should be APA formatted with limited text bullets that can be easily viewed from a distance.

1. Residency Group Research Project
Introduction
The growth and explosion of the data has led to land scale
differences across several industries. Over the past two decades
there has been a huge increase in the amount of data being
stored in databases as well as the number of database
applications in business and the scientific domain. This
explosion in the amount of electronically stored data was
accelerated by the success of the relational model for storing
data and the development and maturing of data retrieval and
manipulation technologies. While technology for storing the
data developed fast to keep up with the demand, little stress was
paid to developing software for analyzing the data until recently
when companies realized that hidden within these masses of
data was a resource that was being ignored. The huge amounts
of stored data contain knowledge about a number of aspects of
their business waiting to be harnessed and used for more
effective business decision support.
Objective
For this project, you will write a 10-page APA formatted paper
followed by a PowerPoint Presentation on a how a particular
organization that has experienced some type of Security or
Privacy Challenges around Data. You will explain the
following: 1) Why the challenges exist, 2) What is the general
approach to solve the challenges, 3) What kind of data tools or
databases do you plan to use, and 4) Finally what risk concerns
were addressed by solving the Challenges. You should describe
your problem, approach, dataset, data analysis, evaluation,
discussion, references, and so on, in sufficient details, and you

2. need to show supporting evidence in tables and/or figures. You
need to provide captions for all tables and figures.
Deliverables
Group Project Paper
The paper should include the following sections each called out
with a Headers.
· Introduction: Overview of the Paper.
· Background: The section should be a Company Overview that
includes the company name, the industry they are in and a
general overview of the organization.
· Challenges: Discuss the challenges that the organization have
with a particular security issue around data.
·
Solution
: Describe the organization’s Data Security implementation and
the benefits they realized from the implementation. What was
the result of implementing Data Security? Did they meet their
objectives or fall short?
· Conclusion: Summarize the most important ideas from the
paper and also make recommendations or how they might have
achieved even greater success.

3. · References: Please include a separate reference page with at
least 5 references.
The paper must adhere to APA guidelines including Title and
Reference pages. There should be at least five scholarly sources
listed on the reference page. Each source should be cited in the
body of the paper to give credit where due. Per APA, the paper
should use a 12-point Time New Roman font, should be double
spaced throughout, and the first sentence of each paragraph
should be indented .5 inches. The body of the paper should be
10 pages in length. The Title and Reference pages do not count
towards the page count requirements.
Your paper should include an abstract and a conclusion and a
reference page with 5 or more references.
Power Point Presentation
1. Must be APA formatted.
2. Bullets must be limited with information, i.e., do not put long
paragraphs.

4. 3. Putting the presentation on overhead to determine if it can be
seen.