COM7008 Cloud Systems And Applications Assessment Brief 2026 | Arden University

COM7008 - Cloud Systems And Applications Assessment Brief

Assessment Task:

As part of the formal assessment for the program, you are required to submit a Cloud Systems and Applications assessment. 

Learning Outcomes:

After completing the module, you should be able to:

1. Demonstrate critical awareness of the broader issues surrounding the deployment of distributed data and applications in the context of Cloud Computing.

2. Critically evaluate approaches to implementing appropriate security mechanisms within cloud systems through the analysis of application needs and infrastructure weaknesses.

3. Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of issues surrounding the management of Cloud Computing systems, including the legal, ethical, privacy and governance issues.

4. Evaluate the existing IT systems and critically appraise the approaches to cloud adoption.

5. Analyze areas of weakness in existing cloud management and security strategies, and propose alternatives or improvements to overcome those limitations.

6. Apply cloud management principles including legal and governance policies to given specification in a case study.

Cloud Systems and Applications Part 1

Question 1

Cyber-attacks are unquestionably one of the greatest threats to the world. Cyber incidents have the potential to significantly disrupt the activities of many business organizations. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to provide IT leaders with a set of voluntary guidelines designed to enable businesses to take steps to improve cybersecurity and resiliency. As a newly employed IT manager in Cyberfox, an IT outsourcing company located in London, describe how you would implement the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to proactively manage cybersecurity risks in your organization.

Question 2

Critically evaluate each of the following security-related standards, laws and regulations.

a. ISO 27004: ISMS Measurement.

b. ISO 27005: InfoSec Risk Management.

c. ISO 27006: Requirements for Bodies Providing Audit and Certification of ISMS.

d. ISO 27014: Governance of InfoSec. 

Cloud Systems and Applications Part 2

Question 1:

Cyber-attacks are unquestionably one of the greatest threats to the world. Cyber incidents have the potential to significantly disrupt the activities of many business organizations. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to provide IT leaders with a set of voluntary guidelines designed to enable businesses to take steps to improve cybersecurity and resiliency. As a newly employed IT manager in Cyberfox, an IT outsourcing company located in London, describe how you would implement the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to proactively manage cybersecurity risks in your organization.

(1) Intro of NIST Framework.

(2) Short intro of relevant information of Cyberfox.

(3) Your implementation plan.

(4) Assessment of your implementation (pros and cons).

Question 2:

Critically evaluate each of the following security-related standards, laws and regulations.

a. ISO 27004: ISMS Measurement.

b. ISO 27005: InfoSec Risk Management.

c. ISO 27006: Requirements for Bodies Providing Audit and Certification of ISMS

d. ISO 27014: Governance of InfoSec.

Cloud Systems and Applications Part 3

Question 1

Explain with diagrammatic illustration the NIST cloud computing architecture.

Question 2

With relevant references, critically evaluate the security, privacy and trust challenges in cloud computing

Question 3

Analyze the adoption of the different cloud service models in different business sectors and explain which one is the most adopted and why.