Functional description
The Public Health Informatics and Technology Program's IT system was developed by the Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (OSELS).The CDC division response for its deployment and maintenance is the Division of Informatics esearch and Development (DID) whose role is to advance the frontiers of public health informatics by means of appropriate research and development. The DID division is to collaborate with the other members of the CDC programs in order to come up with various innovative technologies to be utilized in positively impacting the various health practices in both short-term and long-term basis (CDC, 2010).
Public Health Informatics and Technology Program relies on various technologies in achieving its objectives. The underlying characteristic of these technologies is that they are client/server in their architecture are meant to aid in the handling of various forms of information in the CDC corporation and well as externally between CDC and its other…...
mlaReferences
CDC, (2010).Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office:Informatics Research and Development.
http://www.cdc.gov/osels/ph_informatics_technology/informatics_research_development.html
Chambers & Thomson, (2004).Vulnerability Disclosure Framework.
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Over the last several years, many small and medium sized businesses have been turning to cloud computing as a way of storing, retrieving and accessing vital information. This is when a third party provider will offer firms with these services at a fraction of the cost of traditional IT departments. Moreover, there is unlimited storage capacity and firms can readily protect themselves against vulnerabilities at a particular site. These benefits are leading to nearly 60% of all corporations using this to reduce expenses and improve productivity. The results are that more firms are realizing higher profit margins from effectively outsourcing these functions. (Hashizume, 2013) (Kouns, 2011) (Panda, 2013)
However, the use of third party providers is also very risky. This is because they are leaving their most sensitive data with third party organizations. That may not understand the needs of the company or incorporate proper security protocols. The impact…...
mlaReferences
Data Cloud Computing Services. (n.d.).
Canavan, J. (2001). Fundamentals of Network Security. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Cole, E. (2011). Network Security Bible. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Convery, S. (2004). Network Security Architectures. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Man-made risks are significant, and include fire and pollution. Fire can occur in residential, commercial, or wildland form. Fire occurs as a result of human error at home or in the workplace. Wildland fires can start as a result of unsupervised campfires burning matches or live cigarettes (El Dorado Hills Fire Dept, 2010). Because the rainfall per year for the area is fairly low, wildland fires are a significant risk. This risk is however lowered by the fact that wind poses no risk. The lack of very strong winds also provides for the possibility that the fire department can control a wildland fire fairly easily should it be detected in time.
esidential and commercial fires pose a lesser risk, because these are generally mitigated by prevention and warning measures such as smoke detectors, fire alarms, and fire extinguishers within the home or workplace. Furthermore, nearly constant human presence in residential and…...
mlaReferences
El Dorado Hills Fire Dept. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.edhfire.com/
PropertyMaps. (2010). El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 (El Dorado County). Retrieved from http://www.propertymaps.com/location/mls/usa/california/el+dorado+hills/95762#community_demos
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2010). Region 9: Naturally Occurring Asbestos in California. Retrieved from http://epa.gov/region9/toxic/noa/eldorado/intro1.html
isk Assessment for GFI Group, Inc. (GFI)
ISK ASSESSMENT
Company Network, Interconnection, and Communication Environment
When it comes to the company network, GFI Group, Inc. (GFI) operates as a dealer brokerage company, which was discovered in the U.S. It is in network with over the counter (OTC) related securities and derivative products. The company mostly offers market data brokerage services, and analytics software merchandises to commercial and investment banks, insurance corporations, large businesses and hedge funds in places such as Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe. Furthermore, it offers brokerage services in four broad product classes which consist of credit, equity, financial and commodity. What is more, the company functions through a network of offices in New York, London, Cape Town, Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Englewood Calgary, and Sugar Land. GFI is headquartered in New York City, New York, the U.S.
T As far as Global Finance, Inc. (GFI) interconnection is…...
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Crump, K.S. (2009). Quantitative risk assessment since the red book: Where have we come and where should we be going? Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 9(5), 1105-1112.
Patton, D.E. (2003). The risk assessment paradigm as a blueprint for environmental research. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment,, 9(5), 1337-1348.
Suter, G.W. (2006). Ecological risk assessment and ecological epidemiology for contaminated sites. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 22(9), 31-38.
isk Assessment of Four-year-Old Girl
We each have a range of possibilities before us from the moment that we are born. However, we are each also at least in some ways limited from the moment of our birth because we do not come into the world as if we were a blank slate. This paper examines the ways in which one child had many of her "choices" already made for her. (The girl is now twelve.) This include her parents' background and history as well as limitations (and opportunities) determined by physical disabilities.
The first part of this assessment is related to the child's father. He is self-employed as a general contractor. He finished high school and speaks English at home. There are no specific warning signs in terms of his status. He seems to be relatively stable, although being self-employed clearly brings about a certain instability that does not exist for…...
mlaReferences
Gratz, J. (2006). The Impact of Parents' Background on their Children's Education. http://www.macalester.edu/educationreform/publicintellectualessay/Gratz.pdf
Teacher born without limbs teaches children acceptance, respect. (2007). http://www.sawfnews.com/Lifestyle/36264.aspx.
Psychology differs from other sciences, such as physics or chemistry, where test conditions and parameters are easier to control. In psychology, there are factors that are easily controlled, but there are also circumstances that are beyond the control of the researcher. For instance, the researcher cannot control a history of abuse, or social teaching that occurred in the subject's childhood. All of these factors could affect the outcome of the test, but are not controllable from the researcher's standpoint.
The presence of confounding variables makes it difficult to attribute the study findings to the hypothesis beyond the shadow of a doubt. Confounding variables, such as we have discussed, make it difficult to isolate the independent and dependent variable. This is another key criterion of a valid empirical study. In order to demonstrate causality, the researcher must be able to isolate the independent and dependent variable with some certainty. Without this element,…...
mlaReferences
Brown, M. & Pratt, J. 2000. Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order. New York: New York, Routledge Publishers.
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (92-102), 509 U.S. 579 (1993). [online]
[Accessed March 25, 2009].http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-102.ZO.html
A de Barros DM, de Padua Serafim a. 2008. Association between personality disorder and violent behavior pattern. Forensic Sci Int 2008 Jun 2.
Risk Assessment at the Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Industry and company information
Risk assessment
System characterization
Threat identification
Vulnerability identification
Control analysis
Likelihood determination
Impact analysis
Risk determination
Control recommendations
Concluding remarks
ibliography (Annotated)
The current economic climate is more challenging than ever and economic agents face incremental difficulties in registering profits through the serving of a population with a decreasing purchasing power. Nevertheless, in a context in which most economic agents register decreasing revenues, America's number one retailer -- Wal-Mart -- registers growing profits.
The company does nevertheless encounter numerous challenges as a result of internal vulnerabilities and external threats. In addressing the risks which face Wal-Mart, the current report has used the Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems, from the Special Publication 800-30 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The choice for this methodology was made as it is easily accessible and applicable, regardless of the field in which the entity operates.
The analysis of the risk has revealed two primarily…...
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Greenwald, R., 2005, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Documentary -- The documentary is generically a less traditional sources of information in the construction of research reports. Nevertheless, this particular report was chosen as it presented numerous issues relevant in the context of the analysis conducted, and it presented them through the lenses of the affected people, rather than through the lenses of the organization. The documentary cites employees and other parties which have interacted with the retailer and presents their sides of the story, which become combined and centralized to create a negative reputation of Wal-Mart.
Knorr, A., Arndt, A., 2003, Why did Wal-Mart fail in Germany? Institute for World Economics and International Management, last accessed on July 12, 2011 -- Knorr and Arndt's article details the reasons as to why Wal-Mart's entry into the European continent -- with specific emphasis on Germany -- has been unsuccessful. The article has been selected due to its sources -- The Institute for World Economics and International Management -- which testifies to the accuracy of the information, its reliability and its objectivity. At a general level, the article is create using more qualitative approaches rather than quantitative ones, and its findings indicate that Wal-Mart's breakdown in Germany is due to the company's inability to comprehend and adapt to the specifics of the European market place.http://www.iwim.uni-bremen.de/publikationen/pdf/w024.pdf
Stoneburner, G., Goguen, A., Feringa, A., 2002, Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems, NIST Special Publication 800-30, last accessed on July 12, 2011 -- This specific source is useful as it presents the nine steps of the methodology used in the assessment of the risks pertaining to the operations of the Wal-Mart Stores. The limitation is however pegged to the fact that the model is created for systems within the Information Technology field. Still, the nine steps of the process can be customized and applied to any company, regardless of the industry in which it operates.http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-30/sp800-30.pdf
Wal-Mart 2011 Annual Report, Wal-Mart Website, last accessed on July 12, 2011 -- The Wal-Mart Annual Report is a highly relevant and reliable source of information as it reveals figures directly computed by the organization. It as such integrates information which is relevant and clear, without any shadow of doubt regarding its sources. Nevertheless, while the accuracy of the facts and the figures is not disputable, it has to be recognized that the annual report is part of the organizational documents and represents a means of the company's interaction with its stakeholders. In this order of ideas, the company would use the Annual report to place itself in a favorable light. This specifically means that the company would emphasize on its strengths and achievements, but it would leave out its problems. This shortage generates the need to search for answers to the risks faced by Wal-Mart in other sources.http://walmartstores.com/sites/annualreport/2011/financials/Walmart_2011_Annual_Report.pdf
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SAFETY AND HEALTH ISKS: UK
Workers' health and safety has become a major issue of debate in the UK corporate world because it has been found that in several cases, occupational injuries occur not due to the negligence of the employees but more because of the inappropriate safety measures. While not every person would agree with this, at least those in the legal profession maintain that employers can be charged with serious OHS offence if available evidence suggests that the reason behind death of an employee was unsafe working environment. (Wells: p.5) While the employers are required to conform to certain health and safety guidelines, it is still believed that United Kingdom is experiencing a sudden increase in the number of injuries and deaths on workplace making the British working environment rather unsafe.
Evening News (2001) reports:
The number of work-related deaths in the UK increased by 75 last year, reversing an…...
mlaREFERENCE:
Health & Safety Executive (UK), Review of Health and Safety Legislation (London, HMSO, 1994), p. 8;
Secretary of State for Employment (UK), Building Business... Not Barriers, a White Paper presented to Parliament (HMSO, London, 1986), p. 4
Department of Industrial Relations, Occupational Health & Safety (Portfolio Response) Submission Number DR338 to the Industry Commission, 31 May 1995 p. 4.
South Australian Government, Occupational Health and Safety, Submission Number DR275 to the Industry Commission.
It is also quite possible to use the file system's security characteristics or features in order to protect accessibility to the device management application itself. Then unauthorized users will not be in a position to read the application file, and they will not be able to run the application and have to attempt to guess a legitimate logon password in each of the step providing an extra layer of secured protection. (Network Management Security)
Confidentiality
In general any organization in a stable state has built in systems to decide on required confidentiality of information even within the organization, but when important changes take place to the organization, and then this concept of confidentiality is disturbed. A very big organization in the field of computer technology, Borland, had decided to use 23 industry leading system integrators and consultants to provide major corporations and government clients with applications, consulting and training services for…...
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Borland Delivers Resources and Solutions for Software Risk Management. Business Wire. 10
May 2005. Retrieved at http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:132263626&num=71&ctrlInfo=Round18%3AMode18c%3ASR%3AResult&ao=&FreePremium=BOTH
Borland Strengthens Premier Partner Program; Borland Expands Program with New Premier
Partners, Delphi Client/Server Certification, InterBase Test Drive Program, and New Premier VAR Program. Business Wire. 23 September, 1996. Retrieved at http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:18516376&num=1&ctrlInfo=Round18%3AMode18c%3ASR%3AResult&ao=&FreePremium=BOTH
Risk Assessment for a water company
Risk Assessment Report
Organization: Artesian Water Company
Table of Continent
Executive Summary 3 Table 4 Analysis
Problem & Solutions 6 Conclusion
Risk Assessment Report for Artesian Water Company
Artesian Water Company hereby presents their annual risk assessment report. Together with other companies, these reports are always presented to the Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) and United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as the public has the opportunity of reading the report to check contaminants. Therefore, this report presents information in regard to contaminants which might be found or not found in the Artesian's drinking water and ways in which they may affect health. It create awareness to our consumers on what it takes the company to deliver safe drinking water that can help our consumers make informed decisions about what they drink.
The report include table of results from the company's monitoring and testing data for the water source…...
Secondly, someone not in the minibus party of workers should be aware of the minibus' regular route and when the workers are expected to arrive at their designation, to raise the alarm if they are late. Thirdly, the workers, while waiting for repairs and assistance, should know how to avoid personal injury, even in the dark on a busy country road with few lights and comfortable places to wait by the road. And lastly and ideally, the workers should have some personal knowledge of self-defense, in the event of being attacked by a transient, especially in the dark.
If the company requires the workers to travel frequently because of the nature of their work and occupation, instructing the workers how to repair a punctured tire as part of their initial instruction might not be a bad idea. Thus, the risk assessment method statement should not have merely been regarding the…...
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Terrorists and acts of terrorism have become unpredictable. Today terrorism has adopted a new dimension. This makes it difficult to differentiate between the preparation for a terrorist induced disaster and a natural/technological disaster. Over the years the United States has encountered several terrorist attacks in the eighties hijackings of planes was prevalent and in the nineties and the new millennium attacks on buildings such as the World Trade Center in New York and U.S. foreign embassies such as one in Nairobi, Kenya and Darussalam, Tanzania. The interesting issue is that it is not easy to predict their next mode of attack; many anti-terrorist experts are suspicious about the involvement of chemical or biological weapons (Heng, 2006 ).
In addition, terrorist are no longer bear the profile of the traditional enemy, some of them are Americans and not easy to identify as terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, was born April…...
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ABC News. (2012, May 15). Bush Warned of Hijackings Before 9-11. Retrieved October 23, 2012, from http://abcnews.go.com .
Adam, J.S. (2001, October 5 ). Troubling Questions in Troubling Times: A critical look at the history of attacks on the World Trade Center. Retrieved October 23, 2012, from http://www.serendipity.li/wot/adam.htm
Cable News Network. (2012). Timothy McVeigh. Retrieved October 23, 2012, from http://articles.cnn.com/2001-03-29/us/profile.mcveigh_1_timothy-mcveigh-oklahoma-city-bombing-religion-basic-training-fort-bragg?_s=PM:U.S.
Heng, Y.-K. (2006 ). The 'Transformation of War' Debate: Through the Looking Glass of Ulrich Beck's World Risk Society . International Relations, 69-91 .
Communication strategies also focus on assisting the public with post-risk claims.
Broward County also places great emphasis on claims and liability, as well as protecting the financial assets of the county. Dangerous risk factors themselves, as well as the prevention of these, are of secondary importance. The same is true for the Enterprise Risk Management site of Carolina. The focus here is mainly on the institutions and the risks directly affecting the University. The emphasis here is also on finance, by including as many types of risk as possible under a single umbrella. This however tends to overwhelm other issues, such as stakeholders besides the University. The risks addressed focus only on those facing the university, without mention of possible risks to parties affiliated with the institution.
The Cuyahoga County Department of Central ervices also addresses the issue of claims, but does so against the background of various categories of risk…...
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Broward County. Risk Management. http://www.broward.org/riskmanagement/welcome.htm
Carolina Risk Management Services. Enterprise Risk Management. http://www.unc.edu/finance/risk/erm.htm
Chief Administrative Office. County of Los Angeles: Risk Management. http://cao.lacounty.gov/RMB/overview.htm
Cook County Illinois Bureau of Finance. Department of Risk Management. http://www.cookcountyrisk.com/services2.html
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There are a variety of ways in which the risks of an organization can be assessed, including many different forms or methods of qualitative analysis. Determining specific frameworks, theories, and models for assessing qualitative risks that face an organization can be even more essential and complex than developing an assessment plan for assessing quantitative risks; due to their very nature, qualitative elements of an organization are by definition more subjective, more difficult to concretely measure, and more unpredictable in their effects due to these variations in understanding and measurement (Hutter & Power 2005). Many of the qualitative risks that can confront an organization and potentially thwart its growth and success if not properly dealt with come from the human elements of the organization, such as knowledge and skill levels, and risk identification and assessment in these areas has its own set of ethical and practical complications (Duffey &…...
mlaReferences
Duffey, R. & Saull, J. (2008). Managing risk: The human element. New York: Wiley.
Frame, J. (2003). Managing risk in organizations. New York: Wiley.
Hutter, B. & Power, M. (2005). Organizational encounters with risk. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Chief Information Security Officer-Level Risk Assessment
The objective of this work in writing is to examine Chief Information Security Officer-Level Risk Assessment. Specifically, the scenario in this study is securing information for the local Emergency Management Agency in an Alabama County. The Director of Emergency Management in this County has tasked the Chief Information Security Officer with setting out a plan for information security of the Department's networking and computing systems.
Information Security Management involves the "identification of an organization's assets and the development, documentation, and implementation to policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines, which ensure their availability, integrity, and confidentiality." (Official ISC Guide to the CISSP Exam, nd) Threats are identified, assets classified and security controls implemented through use of "data classification, security awareness training, risk assessment, and risk analysis and as well their vulnerabilities are rated. (Official ISC Guide to the CISSP Exam, nd)
Risk management involves the "identification, measurement, control, and…...
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Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recover (2012) CISSP. Retrieved from: https://www.cissp.com/security-services/compliance-services/business-continuity-planning/disaster-recovery
Official (ISC) Guide to the CISSP Exam (nd) Retrieved from: http://isvoc.com/download/Official_Guide_CISSP_CBK_2rd.pdf
Slater, D. (212) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning: The Basics. CSO. Retrieved from: http://www.csoonline.com/article/204450/business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery-planning-the-basics
A Health Care Informatics Risk Assessment is one of the tools used in healthcare management. They examine workflow issues that have the ability of positively or negatively impacting several important factors, such as the quality of care, overhead costs, and overall efficiency. One of the areas of health care that can benefit from a Health Care Informatics Risk Assessment program is telemedicine. Another area of health care that could benefit from a Health Care Informatics Risk Assessment program is vaccine administration in large groups.
If the COVID-19 pandemic has any lasting impact on the provision of....
Crisis management refers to many things, but in a business context it specifically refers to how a firm identifies threats to both the business and its stakeholders and how the organization deals with the threats. Many large organizations have crisis management plans, but smaller businesses should have them as well, since it is entirely possible for small businesses to be impacted by crisis scenarios. The possible negative outcomes of these types of crisis range from a decline in revenue all the way to the total loss of the company. This is of....
I. Introduction:
A. Define Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its relevance in healthcare.
B. Provide a brief overview of the history of AI in healthcare.
C. Thesis statement: The impact of AI on healthcare and its potential to revolutionize the industry.
II. AI in Healthcare Today:
A. Diagnosis and Medical Imaging:
1. Explain AI's role in analyzing medical images and assisting healthcare professionals in diagnosing various diseases and conditions.
2. Discuss specific examples of AI systems used in medical imaging, such as deep learning algorithms for cancer detection and image-based diagnosis tools.
B. Clinical Decision Support Systems:
1. Describe how AI-powered clinical....
Essay Topics on Pollution
Air Pollution:
The Impact of Air Pollution on Human Health and the Environment
The Role of Vehicle Emissions in Air Quality Degradation
The Economic and Social Costs of Air Pollution on Cities
The Effectiveness of Air Quality Regulations and Standards
The Future of Air Pollution Mitigation and Control
Water Pollution:
The Causes and Consequences of Water Pollution in Developing Countries
The Impact of Agricultural Practices on Water Quality
The Role of Wastewater Treatment Plants in Reducing Water Pollution
The Legal and Policy Framework for Water Pollution Control
The Challenges and Solutions to Marine Pollution
Land Pollution:
The Sources and....
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