...Federal Information Security Management Act, 2002 (FISMA) and Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 1986 (ECPA) had advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of the acts. FISMA was created to protect government information, and assets against natural or man-made threats, while the EPCA was created to revise federal wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping. FISMA is responsible for making sure different agencies are working to ensure the security of data in the federal government. The jobs of these agencies varies from keeping risk at or below specified acceptable levels in a low costing timely manner, and they must also review their information technology security programs yearly. These programs must include provisions for identification and resolution of current IT security weaknesses and risks, as well as protection against future vulnerabilities and threats (gtsi.com). In previous years the federal government received poor marks, and poor cyber security grades that were publicized, there is still improvements in security of information systems. EPCA is composed of three other acts, known as the Wiretap Act, the Stored Communications Act, and the Pen-Register Act. Together these acts contain protections that are useful and important. The Wiretap act deals with the stopping of communication before it goes too far, while the Stored Communication act deals with stored communications not being used, and finally...
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...Information sharing between the agencies within the Intelligence Community have dramatically increased over the last decade. Information sharing can help organizations around the United States prevent attacks, terrorism, and even help local law enforcement solve crimes. Even though information sharing has increased there are still many obstacles that prevent some information sharing to occur between the agencies. Lack of adequate government funding for some organizations can cause many of the local organizations to be restricted to valuable resources. In addition to the lack of funding, the individual methods in which each organization stores their information proves to be an issue as well. Since the development of fusion centers, this has...
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...Introduction Project Management Skill Set Assessment on a scale of 10=high, 1 = low Skills (add skills or attributes relevant to your role as applicable) self- assessment 2nd view importance (A/B/C) 1 Knowledgeable about technology 8 10 A 2 Ability to recognize what you don't know and figure out how to get it 8 10 A 3 Experienced in management generally; able to handle regular administrative responsibilities 10 10 A 4 Leadership skills 8 9 B 5 Organizational/political skills 8 10 A 6 Communication skills 7 9 B 7 Personal traits: honest/tactful 9 10 A 8 Personal traits: positive outlook 8 10 A 9 Personal traits: perception/insight 8 9 A Use this to assess your project management potential. Initially score yourself out of 10 for each skill in the self-assess column. Then validate or revise your scores in discussion with your boss or someone who knows you. Put these scores in the '2nd view' column - this is your actual assessment. At the same time confirm with the other person the importance of each skill (A, B or C, A = most important) for the job concerned. Your development priorities are therefore the lowest scores in the most important skills. A brief summary of my experience was that developing project management skills was challenging...
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...Chapter 5 IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies IT Infrastructure • Shared technology resources providing platform for specific IS applications • Investment in hardware, software, services (consulting, education, training) • Foundation for serving customers, working with vendors, managing business process • Set of physical devices and software required to operate enterprise • Set of firmwide services o Computing platforms providing computing services (e.g desktop computer, laptop) o Telecommunications services o Data management services (+analyzing) o Application software services (ERP, CRM, SCM, KMS) o Physical facilities management services o IT management (plan infrastr. Coordinate with BU), standards (policies), education (training) , research and development services (future investments) • “Service platform” perspective more accurate view of value of investments Evolution of IT Infrastructure • General-‐purpose mainframe & minicomputer era: 1959 to present ...
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...Bsuiness Intelligence Information networks and business intelligence: decision locus and political hotbed By: Julie Stephens Case, Module 2 ITM 501: Mgt. Info. Syst. And Bus. Strategy Trident University Dr. James Marion, Core Professor October 25, 2011 To have a successful organization in today’s economy; employees must be given the tools needed to keep up with the changing market. Many top executives have made tough decisions and have made good decisions and poor decisions along the way regarding Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence (BI) is a term that refers to a variety of software applications used to analyze an organization’s data. It is a discipline made up of several activities, including data mining, analytical processing, query and report writing. This paper will discuss two Business Intelligence case studies and lessons learned from the studies regarding creating, implementing, and using business intelligence. LESSONS LEARNED Reviewing Marshfield Clinic’s early investment in an electronic patient records system is a concern. Although many clinics are turning to electronic patient records now, an early investment may mean that the system they elected to implement is not capable with newer technologies that management may want to incorporate in the future. Not anticipating changes and making preparations for it could cause issues later. Because this system has been utilized by the clinic for a period of time, did they...
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...Maurice E. Simmons INTL 303: Introduction to Intelligence 28 December 2014 American Military University Many of the intelligence community’s (IC) greatest triumphs can be traced back to the use of multiple intelligence methods. As Clark so eloquently stated, “The game of intelligence collection is a multidisciplinary endeavor.” Employment of multiple platforms, sensors, and techniques provides advantages for the analyst to produce valuable strategic intelligence. Collaborative intelligence not only creates accurate and timely information, collaborative intelligence can also reduce wasteful endeavors. For example, a Congressional directed staff committee recently found the IC must increase collaboration among its intelligence systems. On the other hand, information based on a single source is deficient, and does not produce qualitative assessments. According to Anissa Frini, “Stovepiping keeps the output of different collection systems separated from one another and thus, it prevents one discipline from cross-checking another.” The lack of collaborated intelligence can lead to erroneous reporting and deception by the adversary. In order for policymakers to formulate strategic plans, information or rather intelligence gathered must have a holistic and integrated perspective. This paper will begin by highlighting the value of strategic intelligence to policymakers and leadership, the advantages of employing multiple intelligence methods, and will focus on analysis based...
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...Local Law Enforcement Intelligence The world of local law enforcement intelligence has changed significantly since September 11, 2001. State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies have been given a variety of new responsibilities to handle including intelligence as just one. The intelligence discipline has evolved significantly in recent years since 9/11. As these various trends have merged, increasing numbers of American law enforcement agencies have begun to explore, and sometimes embrace, the intelligence function. Law enforcement agencies should consider many new techniques in bettering their intelligence functions. This research paper will discuss law enforcement intelligence history, methods to integrate intelligence into their agency and resources to help with their departments function. To begin this research the first question to be asked should be that of what is law enforcement intelligence? “Law enforcement intelligence is the product of an analytical process that provides an integrated perspective to disparate information about crime, crime trends, crime and security threats and conditions associated with criminality” (Carter). In my opinion the term “law enforcement intelligence” is used and viewed improperly. The majority of people will take this term out of its context and confuse it with national intelligence. Law enforcement intelligence is often viewed as pieces of information about people, places, or events that can be used to provide insight about...
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...carried out intelligence activities since the days of George Washington, but only since World War II have they been coordinated on a government-wide basis. President .Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed New York lawyer and war hero, William J. Donovan, to become first the Coordinator of Information, and then, after the US entered World War II, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942. The OSS – the forerunner to the CIA – had a mandate to collect and analyze strategic information. After World War II, however, the OSS was abolished along with many other war agencies and its functions were transferred to the State and War Departments. It did not take long before President Truman recognized the need for a postwar, centralized intelligence organization. To make a fully functional intelligence office, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 establishing the CIA. The National Security Act charged the CIA with coordinating the nation’s intelligence activities and correlating, evaluating and disseminating intelligence affecting national security. On December 17, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act which restructured the Intelligence Community by abolishing the position of Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI) and creating the position the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA). The Act also created the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI)...
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...A3. Explain how information and sources of information are graded for intelligence. (CB1 1.3) Police officers usually report information intelligence on a 5x5x5 Information Intelligence Report Form. The source evaluation is evaluated from A to E, A being ‘Always reliable and E being ‘untested source’. The information and intelligence is graded to 1 to 5, 1 being ‘Known to be true without reservation‘ and 5 being ‘suspected to be false’. It is essential that any information received or recorded must be evaluated for reliability this is why the grading is in place in relation to CHIS (Covert Human Intelligence Source). A covert human intelligence source is defined as a person who establishes or maintains a personal or other relationship with another person for the covert purpose of facilitating information and intelligence. A4. Explain the National Intelligence Model (NIM) and how the model is used by police officers. (CB1 1.4) The National Intelligence Model is used by the police service to ensure policing is delivered in a targeted manner through the development of information and intelligence. NIM is based on identifying, understanding and addressing underlying problems and trends. The NIM is a validated model of policing, representing the best practise in using intelligence to combat crime. All police forces in...
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...Intelligence Cycle by D.Fritz Abstract The essay provides an overview of Intelligence cycle model and how they work together interdependently to create intelligence. This essay also gives an overview of how the intelligence community operates and how it interacts with the policy makers. [Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines] Why do intelligence exist? According to Mark M. Lowenthal, “intelligence exist because governments seek to hide some information from other governments”(p.1). Eventually, governments also want to find out information other governments are hiding. The role of intelligence is to provide these information to our government, specifically, the policy makers. To accomplish this mission involves tasking, collecting, processing, exploiting, disseminating and storing intelligence, also referred as the intelligence cycle. Tasking is the first stage of the intelligence cycle. During this stage, one needs to know what are the specific requirements of the intelligence and how it can be satisfied. On the top of the “intelligence chain” the director of national intelligence (DNI) would have to determine what intelligence the intelligence community would need to pursue and the priority of the intelligence based mainly on the preferences of the policy makers. Once determined, the information is passed all the way down the chain to the analysts to prioritize the collection requirements. Collection is divided into four categories: HUMINT, SIGINT,...
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...Business Intelligence Concepts and Approaches Saeed Rouhani Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh Branch Department of Industrial Engineering, Firoozkooh, Iran E-mail: SRouhani@iust.ac.ir Tel: +98-912-2034980 Sara Asgari MehrAlborz University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: sara.asgary29@gmail.com Seyed Vahid Mirhosseini MehrAlborz University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: vmirhosseini@gmail.com Abstract In today’s challenging business environment, it is a vital for organization to access useful information and knowledge. Business Intelligence (BI) is an umbrella concept for tools, techniques and solutions that helps managers to understand business situation. And BI tools can support informational knowledge needs of organizations. With respect to increasing trend of BI researches in BI concepts and applications, in this paper, recent researches and papers of academic journals in this field is systematically review to classify and prioritize the concepts and approaches of business intelligence. Consequently researches was classified in three, managerial, technical and system enables approaches to BI, and specification of each approach and future research quid was described. Keywords: Business Intelligence; Enterprise Intelligence Approaches Systems; Review Study; Business 1. Introduction Today, in the rapidly changing environment, need to correct and just-in-time information is not only necessary for success but also is required for remaining in competition. Business intelligence (BI)...
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...212412631043 CLASS : MBA 2nd YEAR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE 8.1- DEFINITION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: * Business intelligence (BI) refers to computer-based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analysing business data, such as sales. * The term Business Intelligence (BI) represents the tools and systems that play a key role in the strategic planning process of the corporation. These systems allow a company to gather, store, access and analyse corporate data to aid in decision-making. Generally these systems will illustrate business intelligence in the areas of customer profiling, customer support, market research, market segmentation, product profitability, statistical analysis, and inventory and distribution analysis to name a few. * Business intelligence is the process of gathering information in the field of business. Information is typically obtained about customer needs, customer decision making processes, the competition and competitive pressures, conditions in the industry, and general economic, technological, and cultural trends. Business intelligence is carried out to gain sustainable competitive advantage, and is a valuable core competence in some instances. Every business intelligence system has a specific goal, which is derived from an organisational goal or from the Vision statement. Goals could be short term (e.g.: quarterly numbers...
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...recommendations to the U.S. Attorney General on issues like advanced usage of technology, requirements, and cooperation between intelligence agencies is charged to the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC) and the Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG). Working in concert, the CICC and the GIWG advocates for local police force agencies in the development and communicating of criminal intelligence to promote public safety and our Nation’s security. The recognition by the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP) of the prominence of the state, local, and tribal law enforcement (SLTLE) are vital ingredients concerning our country’s intelligence process. In order to establish the link necessary for improving intelligence and data sharing at all echelons of government, the creation of the CICC was a product of the NCISP. Law enforcement agencies from varying levels of government comprise this Council. In May 2004, the CICC was formally established and provided advice the refinement and implementation of the NCISP. (Carter, 2009). The U.S. Office of Justice Programs funded the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiatives which exists also charged with the development of methods and guidelines to effectively share information across the criminal justice system. The Global Initiative is responsible for the creation of the subgroup, the Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG). The NCISP was the first product the GIWG created. By design, the GIWG’s mission is to make available...
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...United States has seen some significant changes to its Intelligence Community (IC) in the past 13 years. Since the tragedy of 9-11, the IC has continued to transform itself into an astounding unity of organizations capable of providing the most critical intelligence whenever and wherever required. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the leading producer of foreign military intelligence and the leading producer of intelligence to Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Unified Combatant Command. The mission of the DIA is to provide a tactical advantage to war-fighters and strategic advantages to defense planners and policymakers [2]. Although the DIA continues to achieve countless feats, there is a question of whether...
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...Intelligence is vital in conducting operations and planning in law enforcement. Without intelligence, it will be difficult to develop new ways or to approach current and future crime trends. Law enforcement agencies utilize the Intelligence Cycle for field decision-making. Intelligence cycle consist of steps or processes in collecting sources of information, targeting, collation, evaluation and dissemination of reliable information that will be important in decision-making (Baker, 2005). According to Federal Bureau of Investigation, intelligence cycle is the process of making raw data into useful information for the use of policymakers (Federal Bureau of Investigation, n.d.). Additionally, law enforcement agencies utilize intelligence cycle as a part of its Criminal Analysis Strategies. The intelligence cycle works in a circular pattern with six different steps. The flow between steps is fluid; however, any intelligence found in one step may require going back...
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