...Q1. NAME AND DESCRIBE THREE AUTHENTICATION METHODS. Authentication is defined by Essentials Guide as is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it is declared to be. Authentication means verifying the identity of someone (a user, device, or an entity) who wants to access data, resources, or applications. Validating that identity establishes a trust relationship for further interactions. Authentication is the first step in access control, and there are three common methods used for authentication: What you have method: – Examples of this method includes keys, badges, ID, pass cards/smart card, tokens. These are physical objects and go towards identifying you by what you physically “own”. A smart card is credit card sized card that has an embedded certificate used to identify the holder. The obvious problem here is that objects can be taken and are not tied or "signed" to any particular person. This makes it easy to loan your verification for temporary uses like valet parking, but objects can be stolen. Keys can be duplicated and IDs can be faked, What you are method: - DNA, fingerprints, voice match, cadence of your typing, your walk, talk, act. Your smell, shoeprints, aura, your retinal scan, your vein patterns. Anything that leaves the impression of YOU, but nothing that can come from someone else. These are things that can be taken from you. They cannot be faked but can be stolen. Secondary level of security, what you are is better...
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...the Availability Digest Towards Zero Downtime: High Availability Blueprints August 2007 Vishal Rupani focuses on Microsoft Clustering in his very readable book, Towards Zero 1 Downtime: High Availability Blueprints. He first provides a high-level overview of many topics pertinent to high availability. He then devotes most of his book to Microsoft Clustering and to the proper installation of Microsoft’s Cluster Server and several of Microsoft’s cluster-aware applications. He follows this with a brief discussion of disaster-tolerant architectures, and concludes with a case study. High-Availability Topics Rupani begins with a definition of several high-availability concepts, such as planned and unplanned outages, single points of failure, mean time between failures and interruptions, fault tolerance, and redundancy. He then provides an overview of several important high-availability technologies. RAID RAID technology is the most common method to provide data resiliency. With RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks), data is redundantly stored on multiple disks such that, should one disk fail, the data can still be reconstructed. RAID arrays typically provide a hot-swappable capability so that a failed disk can be replaced without taking down the array. There are several configurations of RAID. Most stripe data across multiple disks to achieve improved performance. Mirrored disks, used by fault-tolerant systems and designated as RAID 1, provide an...
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...agile organization that take advantage of every resource in the most efficient and effective way. One of the metrics that international truck could use would be system availability. System Availability is usually measured inversely as downtime, or the average amount of time a system is down and unavailable to end users and customers. International Truck's previous IT systems didn't share information easily. The SoA allowed information to flow much easier to and from different departments and systems, resulting in less problems and errors in areas such as manufacturing. Other key infrastructure-centric metrics that could be used by International Truck to justify an SoA are, Accuracy, scalability, and through put. These would be justified by the problem in shortfalls in inventory, excessive defects and returns, more timely information on assembly-plant problems, and the lack of easily shared information by their current system. Scalability is how well a system can adapt to increased demands. This is more of a conceptual metric that assesses your ability to upgrade the implemented infrastructure at minimal cost and service interruption. Accuracy is usually measured inversely as error rate or the number of errors per thousand or million in manufacturing. Throughput is the amount of information that can pass through a system in a given amount of...
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...Startup rejection occurs during this startup time. Scrap Rework These losses occurs when products 11 produced are not conforming to the specifications. These are rejects during steady-state production. Scrap Rework 12 The amount of time the facility is open and 13 available for operation. One year consists of 365 days, one day consists of 24 hours, 60 minutes in one hour, 60 seconds in one minute. PLANT OPERATING TIME = Fully Productive Time + Quality Loss + Speed Loss + Downtime Loss + Planned Shutdown PLANT OPERATING TIME 14 PLANNED PRODUCTION TIME OPERATING TIME NET OPERATING TIME FULLY PRODUCTIVE TIME QUALITY LOSS SPEED LOSS DOWNTIME LOSS PLANNED SHUTDOWN OEE FACTORS 15 Availability represents the...
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...examples of confidentiality, integrity and availability requirements associated with the system and, in each case, indicate the degree of importance of the requirements. Confidentiality is provided by two factors: a unique access card and a PIN that functions as a password. A user must have both of these to access the system. Confidentiality is compromised by the fact that most ATM systems connect to various banks, and the source of information cannot be guaranteed to be from a proper ATM. Also, ATMs are public, and can be accessed by the entire population, allowing things like card swipe readers to be used to attack them. The importance of confidentiality is medium to high. If it is the loss of confidence in a limited number of accounts, it is medium, because it does not stop the main functions of the organization and can be corrected. It would be high if a large number of accounts were compromised. Integrity of information at the ATM is provided by the very limited interface that the machine provides to the data stored on the back end. There is no comprehensive GUI or CLI to provide a point of attack. However, the previously mentioned public access and data exchange are threats to integrity. The importance of integrity is medium to high. The alteration of a small number of accounts does not stop the main functions of the organization and can be corrected. The alteration of many could be catastrophic. Availability of the system (and the currency or information it dispenses)...
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...technologies have been developed that allow multiple low cost computers to work in a coordinated fashion to process applications. The economics, performance and flexibility of compute clusters makes cluster computing an attractive alternative to centralized computing models and the attendant to cost, inflexibility, and scalability issues inherent to these models. Many enterprises are now looking at clusters of high-performance, low cost computers to provide increased application performance, high availability, and ease of scaling within the data center. Interest in and deployment of computer clusters has largely been driven by the increase in the performance of off-the-shelf commodity computers, high-speed, low-latency network switches and the maturity of the software components. Application performance continues to be of significant concern for various entities including governments, military, education, scientific and now enterprise organizations. This document provides a review of cluster computing, the various types of clusters and their associated applications. This document is a high-level informational document; it does not provide details about various cluster implementations and applications. 1.1.1 Cluster Computing Cluster computing is best characterized as the integration of a number of off-the-shelf commodity computers and resources integrated through hardware, networks, and software to behave...
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...Linux/Intel Effectiveness For Running E-Business: A Case Study of Oracle E-Business Outsourcing An Oracle White Paper January 2003 Linux/Intel Effectiveness For Running E-Business: A Case Study of Oracle E-Business Outsourcing Executive Overview ............................................................................................. 3 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 3 Why Linux? ........................................................................................................... 4 Price/Performance Measurement of Intel Architecture ................................. 4 UNBREAKABLE LINUX ................................................................................ 4 Architecture for E-Business outsourcing.......................................................... 5 Oracle E-Business Outsourcing Standard Infrastructure .............................. 5 effectiveness of Linux/Intel for outsourcing ................................................... 6 Reliability ............................................................................................................... 7 Reliability Advantages of Oracle E-Business Suite on Linux/Intel and RISC ........................................................................................................................7 Performance .....................................................................................................
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... Mobile Computing and Social Networks Assess the effectiveness and efficiency mobile-based applications provide to capture geo-location data and customer data, and quickly upload to a processing server without users having to use a desktop system. The increasing advancement in the efficiency and availability of mobile internet and smartphone capabilities has significantly enhanced the usage, capabilities and functionality of mobile based applications. It is very convenient and easy for today's mobile users to access information, conduct transactions and do several tasks via mobile applications. The ability to access data or do certain tasks via such apps from anywhere, anytime with the mobile phones without having to wait for access to regular computer has resulted in significant convenience and efficiency for people on the move. The smartphone technology is improving day by day and mobile networks are becoming stronger and secure than before, thereby enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of mobile-based applications. The mobile phone applications are very useful in capturing geo-location data and customer data remotely and transfer such data to the processing server without having the need to use a desktop system, which significantly enhances the convenience and reduces the time required to transfer the data. Such capabilities of mobile applications help in real time transfer and update of data over the server. The advent of mobile applications has...
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...compliance issues; Discuss various best practices, methodologies, and approaches that you can take with you; Do my best to answer any questions you may have on audit related issues regarding these topics. So...who am I? IT Compliance Specialist @ the Office of Information Technology at UMCP Responsible for audit and compliance initiatives within OIT Formerly employed by KPMG LLP and Grant Thornton LLP as an IS Auditor Have worked with many federal, state, and local governments as well as public companies, hospitals, and not-for-profits. Why do we want to be in compliance? No one likes audit findings; Reduces organizational risk; Processes based on best practice and widely adopted standards are more effective than ad-hoc processes; Systems and data are more secure as a result of good internal control practices. What is Data Privacy? Data Privacy - the relationship between technology and the legal right to, or public expectation of privacy in the collection and sharing of data. The U.S. has trailed the E.U. and other countries in data privacy regulations and legislation; Passed Legislation: HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, COPPA; Proposed Legislation: Data Accountability and Trust Act, Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007 (S. 495). Why Data Privacy? To protect people’s personal information under the law; We want to comply with the law; We want to be able to classify our data to adequate protect data that should be private. What is Data Classification? Data...
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...addresses the challenges 5. Business/technical approach 6. Business process changes 7. Technology or business practices used to augment the solution 8. High-level implementation plan 9. Conclusions and overall recommendations 10. Summary of project References Abstract The purpose of this project is to identify the impact of power and politics in Dan Mart Inc management decision in choosing information technology architecture that can provide a high availability and clustering in a business environment like Dan Mart Inc, this project will also identify the limitation power and politics, advantages and cost of implementing each one so as to have a choice of choosing from them all. But for the sake of this project the use of Oracle cooperation high availability and clustering technologies will be the target. We would be discussing different types of technologies by Oracle such as real application cluster(RAC), automatic storage management (ASM), data guard, grid infrastructure, grid control, cloud control, Flash back technology, database e-memory that will be suitable for Dan Mart Inc business environment. Brief Company Background DanMart is a high volume customer oriented business organization that require 24/7 availability of their services, they handle online sales...
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...Week 10: Term Paper: Mobile Computing & Social Networks Week 10: Mobile Computing & Social Networks Professor Gregory Hart Information System Decision-Making CIS500 September 9, 2012 Abstract In my paper I will talk about Mobile Computing and Social Networks and how they all work. I will assess the effectiveness and efficiency mobile-based applications provide to capture geolocation data and customer data, and quickly upload to a processing server without users having to use a desktop system. I will evaluate benefits realized by consumers because of the ability to gain access to their own data via mobile applications. Examine the challenges of developing applications that run on mobile devices because of the small screen size. Describe the methods that can be used to decide which platform to support, i. e., iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, or Android. I will also talk about Mobile applications require high availability because end users need to have continuous access to IT and IS systems. I will discuss ways of providing high availability. Finally I will discuss mobile devices are subjected to hacking at a higher rate that non-mobile devices and discuss methods of making mobile devices more secure. Table of Contents Abstract ………………………………………………………………………………....... 2 Contents ………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Effectiveness & Efficiency mobile-based applications to capture Geolocation data ……. 4 Benefits realized by consumers to access their own data...
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...| Cost of sales79.6 | 78.3 | 50.96 | 52.9 | 42.2 | 43.5 | OperatingIncome5.4 | 6.4 | 0.33 | -11.74 | 13.85 | 16.28 | Inventory6.4 | 6.43 | 37.3 | 41.59 | 56.2 | 52.6 | Property Equip.2.55 | 2.42 | 13.93 | 13.38 | 26.01 | 25.2 | Below table shows the attributes of the products offered by the three companies. Blue Nile | Zale | Tiffany | * Highly customized * Tries to provide high quality * Wide range of prices * Low margin * Uncertainty of demand due to wide variety of products | * Not known for brand value * Product associated with working class * Product Positioning was not clear. | * High brand value * High margin * High price * Less variety * Exclusive * Prestige, blue box equity | Below table describes the attributes of the distribution system employed by the three companies Blue Nile | Zale | Tiffany | * Centralized distribution system * Low response time * High product availability in terms of variety of products * Low product availability in terms of physical availability * Returnability can be challenging. * High transportation cost. * Wide variety of suppliers * Strong information...
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...This final term paper for week ten of CIS 500/Information System Management will assess the effectiveness and efficiency of mobile-based applications provide to capture geolocation and customer data, summarize the benefits realized for consumers having the ability to gain access to their own data via mobile applications, examine the challenges of developing applications that run on mobile devices because of the small screen size, describe the methods that can be used to decide which platform to support, why mobile applications require high availability because end users need to have continuous access to IT and IS systems, ways of providing high availability, why mobile devices are subjected to hacking at a higher rate that non-mobile devices, how to make mobile devices more secure. Once the reader has finished reviewing this term paper, the likely hood technology as we knew it yesterday will have evolved and there will be a new more improved mobile application to support mobile devices of all kids. There will be a new phone which is running the latest applications that cannot be run on your current phone, and thus the cycle of having to have the latest and greatest new widget and gadget continues because we as a society have become so dependent upon mobile communications. Moreover, due to the evolution of the mobile community we are losing soft skills and tend to be less personable because we don’t have to visit friends and family to stay in touch rather just sit in our living...
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...mobile computing and social networking on the web is not a passing fade. There are many uses and applications for mobile computing and social networks. In this paper a few of these aspects will be examined. First an assessment will be made as to the effectiveness and efficiency mobile-based applications provide to capture geolocation data and customer data, and quickly upload to a processing server without users having to use a desktop system. Second, an evaluation of the benefits realized by consumers because of the ability to gain access to their own data via mobile applications will be completed. Third, the challenges of developing applications that run on mobile devices because of the small screen size will be examined. Forth, the methods that can be used to decide which platform to support, i.e., iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, or Android will be described. Fifth, due to mobile applications requiring high availability because end users need to have continuous access to IT and IS systems, a discussion of the ways of providing high availability will be undertaken. Finally, because mobile devices are subjected to hacking at a higher rate than non-mobile devices, methods of making mobile devices more secure will be examined. Mobile based applications provide a wealth of information to the end user and businesses alike. Users on the go can download and upload information effortlessly on the go without having to boot up a traditional computer. Businesses can capture customer data...
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...category of eBay includes 19 different platforms (e.g. skype, payPal, rent) but we'll be focusing on the search and trade platform. The other sister platforms became part of eBay due to recent acquisitions and in some cases result in architectural mismatch which would be an interesting topic for a separate case study, therefore this case study focuses on the original platform's architecture and its evolution in recent years. EBay is an eCommerce system where a user can browse to the website eBay .com and search for anything they want to buy, in auction or right away from the buyer, or to post some item for sale which other users can search for as prospective buyers. The users then arrange for payments online (using eBay's payPal system which is a separate system designed solely for that purpose and recently integrated onto the eBay platform) and receive the item by mail. Like most internet-enabled business systems, eBay is constructed using distributed object technology. It requires scalability, high performance, high availability, and security. It needs to be able to handle large volumes of requests generated by the internet community and must be able to respond to these requests in a timely fashion. In addition to the end-user application,...
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