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Commercial Aviation and Technology

The screening of carry-on baggage incorporates a variety of automated screening technologies, including improved capabilities for ...

Did the Attacks on America Affect Importers

laws combined with new technology being recommended would have a significant impact on logistics budgets (Chandler, 2002). Immedia...

Impacts to Law Enforcement

security. Others, however, condemn the Act because of its impact to American civil rights. Along with that condemnation has been...

Homeland Security and the Unintended Consequences of their Polices and Practices

Any official policy or practice will have both intended and unintended consequences. This paper looks at some of the ways in which...

Biggest Hacking in U.S. History

Just before Thanksgiving 2013, malware was installed on Target's security and payments system that was designed to capture all the...

Digital Information Security

This paper considers the recent data breaches that have compromised our personal security and made identity theft a real threat. ...

2002's Maritime Transportation Security Act

This research paper pertains to the Maritime Transportation Security Act, which was passed in 2002. Analysis is provided. Ten page...

Homeland Security: Is It Correctly Organized?

primary mission is to protect the American homeland"; one department that is charged with the responsibility of protecting our "bo...

Risk Assessment of an Airline

6 gallons of fuel per mile travelled (Boeing, 2009). The current average price of a barrel of fuel is $62.2, and there are 42 US g...

MANAGERS AND FUTURE SCENARIOS

- and what -- are these folks? In its most basic form, a stakeholder is an entity (an individual, group or business) that has a ve...

Questions on Financing and International Bond Issues

the secondary markets. If the issue is a large issue it is likely that any underwriter will look to spread the risk with the us...

How Security Managers Can Benefit from Understanding Rational Choice Theory and Routine Activities Theory (RAT)

sphere (Remco, 2003). Theorist Henri Fayol (1841-1925) developed the concept of security management in his 1916 book entitled Adm...

SUBPRIME MELTDOWN, MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES AND THE ECONOMY

faced with the possibility that single trusts could be wiped out at a moments notice - thus creating the idea of slicing and dicin...

USE OF FORCE AND PERSONAL SECURITY

(Colleges Confront Shootings with Survival Training, 2008). Most public safety experts suggest that weapons not be used to...

HACKERS AS SECURITY GUARDIANS

and once inside, decide to be destructive (Germain, 2004). Then there are the white hat hackers - those who deliberately break int...

POLITICS AND LEGISLATION IN INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT

its tightly enforced on most websites that sell books and music. Another piece of legislation that is trying to be pushed...

Culture and Belief as it Respects Information Security

it is important to examine culture to see how a culture of security can impact an ordinary business. One part of culture is how an...

Positive Perspective on Reforming Social Security

history). Prior to Social Security, it was up to the states to provide security for the elderly, which they usually did in the fo...

Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

Social Security Privatization

in and around government: in 1950, there were fewer than a thousand lawyers in D.C., today there are 60,000; journalists increase...

Student Case Study on Optimum Product Mix for a Shipyard

contribution (axb) Repairs 40 520,171 20,806,840 Conversion 4 5,014,710 20,058,840 Offshore jacket 2 3,098,544 6,197,088 New build...

Comparing China and South Africa

see some similarities when it comes to South Africa. In this paper, well compare the two countries in terms of these categories, t...

Barbara Bovjerg's 2001 Testimony on Social Security Reform

In nine pages this paper examines this GAO employee's 2001 testimony to Congress on the future of the U.S. Social Security system ...

Terrorism Preparedness, Travis County, Texas

Balcones Escarpment, with the land to the west being more arid than the country to the east; the vegetation varies accordingly, ra...

Transatlantic Relations and the Impact of the Euro

With the new currency, there is fear that the EU will focus on trade over security issues. In the past, Europe has had a lot of pr...

College Security and WAN

should be taken for wired or wireless networks. Threats such as interception of unauthorised users are at the same level o...

Constitutional Issues Q and A

systems as well as other venues. Schools are notoriously at odds. What occurs sometimes is that religious groups object to scienti...

Types of Courses in Security

(PSP) (Why get certified?) ASIS requires prior experience and/or education before it will even allow applicants to take the cer...

Security Patches Released by Microsoft

released in 2001 to correct the programs "vulnerability that could allow malicious code to run in a Rich Text Format (RTF) documen...

Security Patches and Microsoft II

overcoming security holes that have been uncovered before a Microsoft security patch has been released" (Saran, 2005, p. 4). The a...