Security & Disaster Recovery
Security & Disaster Recovery
Internal Communication Artifact for executive leadership
The current business problems in the company IT department, such as desktop crashes, server crashes, power outage, cybercrime, employee sabotage, and possible natural disasters are a threat to the company business data. However, there is a solution that has been identified, which is the implementation of cloud computing. Cloud computing selected is Amazon Web Services (AWS). The implementation of the AWS cloud framework would not only be beneficial to the whole company at large but also for governance perspective (Amazon Web Services, 2019). Some of the capabilities of the product include portfolio management, program and project management, management of business performance, and license management.
Moreover, the implementation of the AWS would also see the business problems facing the company solved. The product is considered reliable in terms of computer infrastructure, which will reduce the desktop crash problem. The cybercrime, employee sabotage, and natural disasters problems would be resolved by AWS as it utilizes an end-to-end approach to secure and harden the infrastructures by taking account of operational, physical, and software measures. The implementation of AWS would be a major step for the organization operations and assuring its customer on data safety.
Fact Sheet Artifacts for cross-functional team
The AWS cloud product is on-demand delivery of database, compute power, application, storage, and different IT resources that would benefit the company cross-functional team. The rationale for the implementation of the AWS cloud for the cross-functional team is provided into the business perspective and technical perspective. In the business, the perspective would help the cross-functional team in supporting their business outcomes and adjusting business needs as they change. Some of the capabilities of the business perspective include IT finance, which helps in planning and managing budgets. The benefits realization that helps in measuring the benefits of investment, and the business risk management that provide the estimation of the potential business impact of strategic, external risks, and preventable (Amazon Web Services, 2019). The technical perspective incorporates of platform perspective that has the capabilities to compute, network, data storage, and database providing helping the cross-functional team in developing new processes for providing infrastructure in a cloud environment. The security perspective of ASW includes capabilities such as detective control that identify potential security occurrences, infrastructure security, data protection, and the incident response.
The implementation plan of the ASW cloud includes three phases. The first phase is the script launch and configuration of the Virtual Network and Active Directory infrastructure (Amazon Web Services, 2019). The phase involves setting p virtual network used for exchange server deployment, the configuration of private and public routes, launching windows servers, setting up administrative ingress and egress, configuring Amazon EC2 security groups for controlling network traffic between the exchange servers and active directory. The second phase is the scripted launch and configuration of the exchange server multi-role servers, and lastly, the third phase is installing and configuring exchange.
Writing Process Analysis for Each Artifact
The three stages of the writing process that were used for the AWS cloud are planning, multiple drafting, and revising and editing. The planning stage is where the writer determines the general purpose for writing, the appropriate format, determine the topic, and write a statement of purpose. Multi drafting involves writing sections of the rough draft at a time and writing connecting devices. Revision and editing writing process are where work is improved before writing the final draft.
For the audience of executive leadership, the planning stage was used to determine the topic suitable for convincing the leadership about the importance of implementing the ASW and the format of the writing was in an email that carried the statement of the purpose as the subject. The email was written in three drafts of ASW description, benefits of implementing ASW, and the potential solution to the current business problems. The revision and editing stage of the writing help in improving the content by adding examples and more benefits of implementing ASW.
Cross-functional team audience writing involved the planning stage where the topic of writing was determined based on the problems that face the cross-functional team in terms of IT. The purpose of the writing was also determined in the planning stage. The multi drafting stage in writing involved three drafts that included the description of the product, the rationale of implementation, and summary of implementation phases. The drafts were improved in the revision and editing stage by adding more details to describe the aspects provided.
Audience Analysis for Each Artifact
Audience 1: executive leadership of the organization
The executive leadership attribute of subject knowledge is above average as they have a deeper understanding of the major process in the business, which made it easy to write a short detailed description of the product. The position in the organization influenced how the artifact was presented in terms of format and language. The artifact was short but well explained, which was affected by personal attitudes. The reading style for the audience is above average hence able to understand facts provided in short explanation. The type of readers at this level is all international able to comprehend short written emails with detailed information.
Audience 2: cross-functional team
The subject knowledge of cross-functional team influenced the writing to contain more explanation and examples. The position in the organization influenced the level of English, which was plainer. The personal attitudes affected the artifact as it had to contain well informing details. Reading style and secondary type of readers in the audience influenced the level of English used, and longer explanation had to be provided in the artifact.
References
Amazon Web Services. (2019). Retrieved from https://aws.amazon.com/?nc2=h_lg
