7.1 Security System

Love Shack Cabins needs to take good precautions when working their business because there are 5 threats that we need to make sure we are good on, viruses, outside intruders, employees,firewall, and natural disasters. One of the big things that we need to make sure we don't get is a virus. A virus will destroy any data that we have stored in our computer system and then we will loose everyone information and all of our information about our cabins. Any outside intruders, meaning someone that is "snooping" around in our store trying to look for any information, maybe to steal an identity or also just someone hacking into the system to get any of our customers information or our information even Someone that might would hack into our computers would be someone else with a cabin business trying to steal our customers or doing anything to keep us from getting business. When we say employees, we are not trying to disrespect our employees, we are just simply saying that with all of our other Love Shack Cabin workers we need to make sure that they are who they say that are instead of someone else and by this we would authenticate our employees by giving them a code, card to swipe, or possibly a voice password. Firewalls allow us to also authenticate our users and anyone who signs in to once again make sure we are who we say we are maybe using a password to access our website. Any company does not want to have any type of a natural disaster, a natural disaster would be something like a power outage. If the power went out then Love Shack Cabins would not be able to access anyone information or anything dealing with our computers because the systems would be shut down and if we did not save any knew information then it would be lost. At Love Shack Cabins we have some ways that we make sure that we are safe. When our employees get to work, they have to authenticate their selves at the back door by a biometrics system where they swipe their finger to make sure they are who they really say they are. Another way that we watch carefully about our information is we have physical access restrictions in our system that tries to prevent any hackers before they try and break in. To prevent any intruders that are trying hack our system with a computer or maybe even a robot, in order to sign up for our website before completion we have an encryption code that only we can see. The user that is signing up would have to put in the code to authenticate that they are a real person trying to sign up for our website and not a robot or computer.

6.1 Pillars of the Web

One of the pillars of the web is utilizing the web as a platform. Utilizing the web as a platform is leveling the playing field, allowing others to access the web through browser and Internet connection. With Love Shack Cabins, we utilize the web by being able to access our other business to business's websites such as Haynes furniture, to make a transaction and order the things that we need from them. The next pillar is harnessing collective intelligence. This means that it allows users to give feedback and let you know what you might need to improve on. Love Shack Cabins allows our visitors to give us feed back on how they liked their stay in our cabins and what things need to be better or if there was anything that might need to be improved. Another pillar is the leveraging data. Leveraging data utilizes powerful databases to make decisions. We have made it accessible to our customers to be able to contact us at anytime, or email us if there are any questions. If they feel the need to contact us, with getting their information stored into our databases, we can look their information up and see what things might interest them and see what things are available to them. Because of the type of company that we are, the only way for this to be possible is for them to contact us via email or by simply making a phone call. The last pillar is the implementing innovative web capabilities, this is the actual capabilities that allow users to see the different things. Something that Love Shack Cabins allows viewers to see, is a widget on our page that allows you to see the weather where ever the cabin that they are interested would be. It will let them know within the next week what the temperatures will be during those days and if it might rain or such. This helps the visitors make plans for their stay, if they want to be outside or inside.

4.4 Entity Relationship Diagram

In our first entity group we have labelled as customer. Under customer we then have what information we might need from the customer to help our process flow more smoothly. We have their first name, last name, their home address, and as always a number to contact them. All of these different things that I just named off are known as attributes. Like previously mentioned, attributes help us label our customers with some sort of information. With our next entity group we have product. Under product we have the information about the cabin that our customer is interested in renting. In order to know this information we have the cabin that their interested in renting as a cabin number which allows us to narrow everything down to which exact cabin they are staying and all the different descriptions of that cabin. We also have the occupancy of that cabin and the description for other attributes. With our last entity group we have invoice and within invoice we have the cabin number again, description, price, tax, and the total price. With all this different information it helps us better understand our customer. If our customer wants to change something like for instance, which cabin they are wanting to stay in, the only thing we will have to do is pull up their name and all of this information will be listed. 

5.3 Intranet Diagram

As previously mentioned in the last blog of 5.2 talking about the extranet and what was going on inside of it, we then go to the next step and even further into the system. When using the extranet to communicate with Haynes Furniture we were communicating with the "outside network". The intranet is one happens on one side of the VPN like identified above with the pink box. Within intranet we still have a client and also a server. If you didn't notice the client and server are on the same side of the Internet. This is called a client inside the network. Even thought this is an inside network, we still have to get verified through a firewall. The reason for this is because we do not want to take any chances with someone trying to hack into the system and steal information or anything of that sort. Everything basically still works the same, everything is just kind of going on in one side the the VPN, which is identified as the Intranet. 

5.2 Extranet

With this diagram, it allows us to better understand how a business might use an extranet. My business that I am currently employed with is Love Shack Cabins, we rent out cabins. Another business that we might be accompanied with is Haynes Furniture. Within the extranet system we would have in LAN A, like drawn above, would be our business, Love Shack Cabins. LAN B would be our business that we are combined with, Haynes Furniture. If we need to get in contact with them we would be the client, we would  have to first be sent through the firewall to be approve that we are "legit" and are allowed to be contacting them through the VPN which is also the Internet. After we pass through the VPN we then come across another firewall to be approve to verify that we are not a scam of some sort and then we can connect with our business Haynes Furniture which would be the server to let them know of any know equipment that we might be purchasing from them. Everything that just mention is all what goes on inside of the extranet. 

Packet Switching Technology 4.3

The first thing that happens is TCP, transmission control protocol or internet protocol, IP, breaks the information down into data packets that make it easier to transfer the information from computer to computer. This is what is called packet switching. In order for the transferring to take place, there must be a router. A router allows two or more networks to connect. After the data has been packed it is then transferred to its destination. In order for all this to start there has to be a client, which sends a request to the server. The server is what does all of the work. When the data is being sent it has an IP address. The IP address is what allows the routers and networks to identify the data. All of this together is how we get the packet switching technology. If this didn't happen, any information that we needed sent like emails, would not be able to send and receive. 

5.1 Competitors website

The website that we chose to be our competitor was www.perfect-cabin-vacations.com/Florida-cabin-rentals/. With rule number 1 something that the website offers that is unique at the bottom of their page they have other websites and "deals" that might be helpful if maybe their prices are too high. My rating for rule number 1 is a 2. The reason for this being is that they only have 2 websites with other ratings and no special rates for their own product. The percentage on how often it is used is not very high at all, maybe the reasoning for that is because they don't have very many offers.

Rule number 2: I give them a 5 for something pleasing. They have beautiful pictures up that are very appealing. The pictures make you want to stay there showing the good locations.

Rule Number 3: I give them a 4 for the website being easy and fast to use. When you first pull the website up, it has different pictures of their cabins at different locations meaning cities in Florida, this allows you to pick which area you are interested in. It has many links to different places which is a plus.

Rule Number 4: Rule number 4 gets a rating of 5 because the pictures that they gives us to see are very nice and motivate the visitors to want to stay there.

Rule Number 5: They get a rating of 4 for rule number 5. They have pretty coloring and beautiful pictures but don't really have much advertisement. When using Alexa.com you find out that there is only 8 other websites that link into this website.

Rule Number 6: Rule number 6 gets a good rating of 5 because you learn a lot from this website. It allows you to read helpful information like the exact description of the cabins and locations. This allows you to choose which cabin you are interested in staying at.