"Executing Privileged Commands without the root Password"
• Explain how you would allow the user to execute a specific, privileged command without giving the user the root password or permission to use the sudo to run any command with root privileges. Provide the exact steps you would follow and clearly explain each step.
• Give your opinion on the number of people that you believe should know / retain the root password of an enterprise Linux system. Justify your response.
"Validation with Regular Expressions"
• Write a regular expression to match valid e-mail addresses having the form of [email protected]. Name and company should not have spaces, quotation marks, the @ character, the back (\) slash character, or the forward (/) slash character.
• Validate each of these e-mail addresses and with your regular expression and report the result for each validation
"Ethical Concerns and Crime in Technology"
• Consider the role of technology in the workplace today and take a stance on whether or not you believe a company has the right to monitor technology usage of its employees on a constant basis. Give your opinion on whether such limitation could (a) strengthen the company's overall technology security posture, or (b) limit the rights of employees. Justify your stance with one or more example(s).
• From the e-Activity(link below), summarize the details of the selected case, and indicate the end result. Determine whether or not you believe this type of crime could be created without the use of technology. Justify your response.
"Application Maintenance"
• Explain the importance of application maintenance in organizations and assess the need for robust patch and update management programs and procedures.
• From the e-Activity, compare and contrast the update styles of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Google Chrome and determine which style you believe to be more effective for organizations. Justify your response.