Create a fictitious company that has 
¢ Email (both encrypted and not), 
¢ Hash values to verify documents, 
¢ Databases that store
¢ corporate sensitive / proprietary information
¢ employee payroll, health records, etc.
¢ vendor information
¢ credit card information
¢ other items as determined by the type of company
¢ Remote users that must be authenticated
¢ On site users that must be authenticated

You will need to complete the following:

¢ What methodology will you use to protect the data?
¢ What are the biggest challenges faced by companies using encryption?
¢ How will you verify and authenticate the users both local and remote?
¢ What forms of encryption (symmetric / asymmetric)
¢ What certifying authorities will you use? 
¢ What are common attacks and how will you protect against them?
¢ How have other similar companies dealt with this and with what results?
¢ How will you test the method you choose?
¢ What are the expected outcomes?
¢ What new methods may be on the horizon that will help this industry?

Please note the following criteria:

Research paper:
¢ Research Paper must be in APA Style
¢ Research Paper must have at least 5 works cited of which 2 must be peer reviewed works/articles (note your book can be included as a reference)
¢ Must be at least 10  double-spaced pages with standard 1 inch margins.
¢ 6 “ 8 pages of prose
¢ Limit the number of bulleted lists
¢ Prose + charts + figures = 10 pages

¢ Total report should be 10 “ 15 pages

Presentation
This presentation must be supported by the research paper.