1. Read the attached opinion piece where the author indicates that government failure caused the Great Recession of 2009.

. Locate two JOURNAL articles which discuss this topic further. You need to focus on the Abstract, Introduction, Results, and Conclusion. For our purposes, you are not expected to fully understand the Data and Methodology.

. Summarize these journal articles. Please use your own words. No copy-and-paste. Cite your sources.

http://www.aei.org/publication/how-government-fail…

2)After reading chapter 1 and 2 and looking at the link above, you’re ready to participate in the first discussion.

Let’s look at a possible real-world scenario and how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plays into it. In this scenario, the United States was hit by a large-scale, coordinated cyber attack organized by foreign entity. Lessons learned indicated that DHS was not utilizing any threat modeling strategies and would like to get discussion started immediately to better understand what it is. You are brought in and need to provide the following to DHS:

What is threat modeling?
How can threat modeling help protect key assets (this could be information, infrastructure, personnel, etc) going forward?

What should the next steps be for DHS now that they have a better understanding?