Overview
When it comes to cyber defense, having a well-rounded toolbox of strategies is important. For this milestone paper draft, you will be
analyzing trends in personnel or human factors, data protection, and system protection. You will evaluate these trends as solutions
using threat modeling, a skill you practiced in Modules Three and Four. This draft is an opportunity to begin work on your final
project and receive feedback from your instructor before completing your project in Module Seven.
Scenario
For this final project, put yourself in the role of a security analyst who is performing an audit of your company. Your organization is a
mid-sized manufacturing company that released its own smart headset. The headset has the ability to project important documents
on an optical screen for the technicians in the field. The documents could be product schematics, invoices, emails, text messages, or
any documents put in the shared drive on the server. The headset has constant communication with the server that resides in the
central office; the connection is made through the technicians’ cell phones via the Bluetooth connection.
Prompt
Create your cyber defense paper draft by selecting your trends below and completing a threat model for each trend using what you
learned in Stepping Stone One. Be sure to integrate your feedback on this assignment into your final, polished project submission in
Module Seven.
You must address the critical elements listed below.
I. Personnel or human factor trend
Select a personnel or human factor trend and discuss the following critical elements:
A. Describe how the trend or strategy provides protection to an organization.
B. Defend the trend as a credible solution based on your analysis of the threat model for the scenario.

Select a data protection strategy or technology and discuss the following critical elements:
A. Describe how the strategy or technology provides protection to an organization.
B. Defend the strategy or technology as a credible solution based on your analysis of the threat model for the
scenario.
III. System protection trend
Select a technology in one of the following areas:
● Network protection technologies
● Endpoint/server protection technologies
● Software code protection strategies and technologies
For your selected technology, discuss the following critical elements:
A. Describe how the selected technology provides protection to an organization.
B. Defend the technology as a credible solution based on your analysis of the threat model for the scenario.