...ahead i 2012 and counted an i t bl to h d in d t d increase i in systems integration revenue; but one-third slipped back — showing that the security marketplace is not yet where it was pre-recession. By Laura Stepanek, Editor A 9 percent decrease in the 2012 revenue for SDM’s Top Systems Integrators is a deceiving number because individual company results did not recede to that extent. By all accounts, systems integrators described 2012 as average to improved — at least moderately better than the dismal results they encountered in 2011. While some companies found it “challenging,” others experienced the opposite. Most were in the middle — financial performance was neither stellar nor stagnant, but “acceptable” compared with the past few years. “2012 was another challenging year for the larger commercial integrated systems business. It wasn’t worse than 2011 but about the same,” notes No. 25-ranked ASG Security, Beltsville, Md. “There are still fewer projects, less funding and great pressure on margins. However, the low and mid markets performed very well for us again; specifically, a continued great resurgence in residential sales with excitement around our enhanced service platform. Small business was also a continued strong growth segment for the company, led by enhanced intrusion sales and cloud-based video services.” ASG Security reported $20.9 million in 2012 North American systems integration revenue, 6 percent less than in 2011. However, the company simultaneously...
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...1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 1 Indian Securities market is one among top______ securities markets of the world. Four Eight Three Six 2 The Bombay Stock Exchange was established in ______ 1875 1873 1874 1872 3 The Bombay Stock Exchange was established as a ___________ Limited Liability Firm A partnership firm A company Voluntary non-profit organization 4 As of December 31, 2009 the Bombay Stock Exchange was among the top_____ of global exchanges in terms of market capitalization of its listed companies Six Eight Ten nine 5 As of December 31, 2009 the Bombay Stock Exchange was the world’s number _____ exchange in the world in terms of listed companies One Two Five Three 6 The first exchange in India to get ISO 9001:2000 certification was _____ The Multi Commodity Exchange The Bombay Stock Exchange The OTCEI The National Stock Exchange 7 Bombay Stock Exchange was the __________ in the world to obtain the ISO 9001:2000 certifications First Second Fifth Third 8 Exchange traded fund (ETF) on SENSEX are listed on BSE and Exchange in ________ UK USA Hong Kong Japan 9 The debt market in India covers all, except Letters of Credit External Commercial Borrowings State Govt. debts Central Govt. debts 10 Currently, Indian Securities market comprised of _________ stock exchanges spread...
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...transference of both functions away from government The change in policing cannot be understood in customary terms. It is often mischaracterized for example as privatization. Because the distinction between public and private domain becomes problematic in the new policing, the more appropriate description for what is occurring is multilateralization—as host of non governmental groups have assumed responsibility for their own protection, and a host of nongovernmental agencies have undertake to provide security services Crucial distinction is made between the auspices and providers of policing. Auspices are groups (and sometimes individuals) that explicitly and self-consciously take upon themselves the responsibility for organizing their own protection. Providers are groups that actually do the policing. In the old paradigm of policing government had responsibility for articulating security needs and for developing institutions to meet them. This has changed auspices can either be public (govt) or private (nongovt) Governments were the organizational auspices for formulating demand for policing, and they were the providers who supplied it. These two functions have become separate it has become acceptable for groups other that governments both to take control of their owm policing and to select the providers of it Policing is authorized currently under five auspices; economic interests, both legal and illegal; residential communities; cultural communities, individual and government ...
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...Implications Three constraints: Scope for increasing aggregate size of public sector limited Scope for raising debt levels limited Contingent liabilities will need careful management Some implications: PPP may help but are unlikely to be a panacea (PPP should be driven by VfM not fiscal constraints) Raising savings (revenue), improving efficiency of investment, and equitization will all have to play a role. 4 Debt Management I: Definition of Public Debt Vietnam - Gross Public and Publicly Guaranteed Debt - 2005-2009 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 (In percent of GDP) A. Gross public and publicly guaranteed debt (B+C) B. Gross domestic public and publicly guaranteed debt (B1+B2) B1. Gross domestic public debt Securities Loans and advances B2. Gross domestic publicly guaranteed debt VDB domestic debt Other entities (Social Policy Bank, VEC, Vinashin bonds etc.) C. Gross external public and publicly guaranteed debt (C1+C2) C1. Gross external public debt Multilateral Bilateral...
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...Coreflood Takedown by the FBI Abstract Coreflood was a computer worm (botnet) that thrived for more than a decade and had over 2,000,000 clients. Most of these were in the United States. This paper discusses the Coreflood bot-net, its’ takedown by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Department of Justice, privacy and security issues surrounding the takedown and were their actions warranted? Coreflood Takedown by the FBI Coreflood was a small piece of malware that had been active for more than 10 years. The computers that were infected with Coreflood could perform actions that the user would not have been aware of such as: send out spam and malware, record user keystrokes to get account information and passwords and coordinated website attacks (Piklorski, 2011). Coreflood was a systematic capture and drain scheme used to wire transfer money from your account to their account. Attorneys, contractors, small business owners and individuals, were all victims of these thieves (shogan, 2011). As of February 2010, there were approximately 2,336,542 computers that were currently or had been infected by the Coreflood botnet with and turned into network sleeper agents to gather information (Piklorski, 2011). Although about 80% of these were in the United States, there were also some located in other countries. Due to this criminal success and American citizen devastation effects of Coreflood, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) started an effort to take down Coreflood...
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...Developing the Fixed Income Market in Nigeria September 2010 Contents 1. Evolution – Where we are coming from 2. Status Quo – Where we are 3. Constraints – Challenges to be overcome 4. The Future – How to develop the market Evolution of the Fixed income Market in Nigeria ▲ Nigerian Government Registered Stock in 1946 ▲ Federation of Nigerian Development Loan Stock in 1946 ▲ Federal Republic of Nigeria Development Loan Stock in 1963 ▲ Suspended in 1988 ▲ Issuance rejuvenated in 2003 with 1st FGN Series ▲ Commencement of PDMM system in March 2006 ▲ Active secondary market commences in November 2006 ▲ Extension of the curve to 20 years in November 2008 The Current State of the Fixed Income Market in Nigeria ▲ The Fixed Income Market in Nigeria is made up of three major segments: Federal Government of Nigeria Bond, State Government Bond and Corporate Bond market. ▲ The Federal Government Debt Market is the largest and most developed of the segments The FGN Debt segments. Market dominates the fixed income Market in Nigeria. ▲ The amount of outstanding issuance in the Nigerian Debt Market is skewed towards Federal Government paper. The amount of FGN debt outstanding has increased from NGN1, 753 billion as at December 2006 to NGN3, 764 billion as at July 2010. NGN2,408 (63.97%) of the outstanding debt is FGN Bonds. ▲ Th FGN B d auctions are h ld under a Si l D h A i process. All bid are placed through the The Bond i held d Single Dutch Auction bids l d h h h twenty one primary...
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...1. ORIGIN OF THE REPORT This assignment is originated as the course requirement of FIN 335, which is termed to be a major course for the B.B.A program. As this assignment is based on Security Exchange Commission of Bangladesh, so we have to work with limited time. We were assigned the assignment on “Security Exchange Commission” around 30 days ago, and we went around looking for its source of existence and also searched the internet to get enough updated knowledge. 1. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY ➢ To present an overview of Security Exchange Commission. ➢ The Function of Security Exchange Commission. ➢ The objective of this report is to make readers know about Security Exchange Commission of Bangladesh. 1.2SCOPES AND METHODOLOGY OF THE REPORT SCOPE: After being assigned the assignment, we found that the scope of the report was confined to various related websites. The report is solely based on terms and concepts related to Security Exchange Commission. METHODS: This assignment has been prepared on the basis of experience gathered during the period of FIN 335 course. For preparing this assignment, we have also got information from various websites and Security Exchange office at Motijheel ‘ Jibon Bima Bhaban ‘which may provide successful results considering this report. 1.3 LIMITATIONS ✓ Some websites had no direct reference. ✓ Unable to collect enough information from due to their official restrictions. ...
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...Select View Mode View Mode BookSlideshowScroll Readcast Add a Comment Embed & Share Reading should be social! Post a message on your social networks to let others know what you're reading. Select the sites below and start sharing. Readcast this DocumentTransparent Login to Add a Comment Share & Embed Add to Collections Download this Document for Free Auto-hide: on Quantcast 1. ORIGIN OF THE REPORT This assignment is originated as the course requirement of FIN 335, which is termed to be a major course for the B.B.A program. As this assignment is based on Security Exchange Commission of Bangladesh, so we have to work with limited time. We were assigned the assignment on “Security Exchange Commission” around 30 days ago, and we went around looking for its source of existence and also searched the internet to get enough updated knowledge. 1.1 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY To present an overview of Security Exchange Commission. The Function...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 CRYPTOGRAPHY In-order to get security aspects ranging from commerce and payments to the private and public communications there are number of methods proposed till now. Among them cryptography is an important aspect for securing communications in transmitting, receiving and for storage electronic data. But it is necessary to know the method of securing data transmission by Cryptographic technique. 1.2 THE PURPOSE OF CRYPTOGRAPHY Cryptography is among one of the ancient arts of writing languages in secret code. In 1900 B.C an Egyptian scribe was the first document used inscription for cryptography. Some of the experts argued that cryptography writing has appeared simultaneously after the writing has been invented,...
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...research is to discuss possible security threat across the borders happened due to the ethnic conflict of Myanmar. In this era of globalization, internal factors of a state can produce some external impacts on other neighboring countries; which is commonly known as a “spillover effects” in political science. Some cases even become so much critical to solve, that the whole continent become affected by the problem. The impact of that ethnic conflict becomes so vulnerable, that the case has not been concealed nationally but also become an international phenomenon. In my case, the problem has become a huge threat to national and international security system. The hypothesis of the paper is to conducting possible security threat across the borders, particularly in the whole south-Asian region. The ethnic violence in Myanmar has some direct impact on social, political and economic processes at national and international levels. In fact, the conflict can result not only in destabilizing the trade and security of Myanmar, but also of the surrounding states. But my concern is focusing the ongoing security issue inside and across borders due to that conflict. That’s why, I think this is a very urgent matter to study and its totally connected with the problem of IR. (Koser 2005, pp- 12) International communities could not able to present perfect legislation or implement new constitution for that particular case so far in order to address the problem of security threat and securitization of...
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...Skies: The Progress in Security Operation Administration Of Airports in Developing Countries Post 9/11 Scenario Table of Contents Abstract3 Security Operation Administration4 Literature Review5 Objective 10 Methodology10 Research Design11 Conclusion 12 Bibliography 13 Abstract Do people believe that there is sufficient and enough airport security system in Pakistan. And do there is a substantial threat to the airport security in Pakistan. These two issues were discussed and evaluated in this essay. After 9/11, the concept of security has changed thoroughly. Before that security at airports was mere a case of going through a scanner and a casual check up. But after 9/11 developed countries remodel their security plans. With the passage of time, developing countries also started to rethink about their security plans. Methodology was questionnaires to public and interviews with the aviation security authorities. In this way the overall perception about the security of airports was analyzed. Also past historical events were analyzed to find out the possibility of any terrorist activity on Pakistani airports. For this purpose secondary data about threats of terrorism and their actual conduct on different places were analyzed. Then various threats to airport security were analyzed. Also primary data was collected through questionnaire to find out the people perception about their security on airports. The qualitative...
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...Article Review: - The Greed Cycle, by John Cassidy The article by Thomas Cassidy, points out the instrumental role that greed plays in the modern corporation. Modern Economists have always seen greed as not only a necessary element in the corporate environment, but as also a vital part of the successful evolution of a public company. As the article points out, “Economists from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman have seen greed as an inevitable and, in some ways, desirable feature of capitalism. In a well regulated and well balanced economy, greed helps to keep the system expanding”. In the early public companies, greed was not seen as a danger, as the implicit trust that managers would not slack off, and would run the company in the interest of the stockholders and stakeholders was not undermined. Economist was the first to identify the issue of managers not acting in the interest of the shareholders, and instead being motivated by greed, and “self-enrichment”. Public Companies, evolved as a way to create financing for large industry, where in the owners agreed to relinquish day to day control and operation of a company to mangers, who in turn would act in their interest, and maximize revenues. As the article points out, in the beginning, “most of the professional managers were content to collect generous salaries and pensions rather than habitually attempt to rob the stockholders and bondholders. It is a strong proof of the marvelous growth in recent times of a spirit...
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...The issue of ethics in the corporate world has been widely talked about over the last decade. Corporate scandals almost seem like a part of everyday life. The nation’s response is to inform students of ethical conduct and hold organizations to a higher standard. This will hold CEOs and management responsible for all fraudulent acts committed by an organization. The ethical spotlight has now turned to CEO compensation due to the recent decline in the economy. The focus point of those public discussions has been to try and get a better position to influence CEO compensation packages. Determining a CEO compensation package and commitment that does not place undue pressure on the CEO to taint financial statements, provide excessive perks, approve stock option scandals to occur, and let outrageous severance packages could be a giant step in the right direction toward an ethical foundation in the business community. Perhaps CEO compensation packages are not the cause of corporate scandals, but sometimes they do push CEOs into making improper and unethical decisions. The relationship between CEO compensation is parallel to being an ethical company, and having long term success Executive compensation has risen significantly in past ten years. These increases are difficult to comprehend considering profits and stock prices of the only increased by 11% and 23% respectively as of 2008. Although the increase in market value created an environment for increasing compensation without much...
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...Food-Lion MVP Program Charles A. Kennedy BUS_120 February 7, 2009 Mr. Belflowers Fayetteville Technical Community College Located throughout different parts of the eastern seaboard, there is a popular food store called Food-Lion. The main goal for the store is to provide quality food products at reasonable affordable prices that other stores cannot compete with. With this as their main goal, the store believes it will greatly gain profit and exposure leading to the company growing. Food-Lion is seeking to expand its operations by improving their quality and providing enough quantity. Food-Lion is seeking to take their business in a whole new direction with a Most Valued Product (MVP) program. The proposed system requirements are the system shall have three tiers of users; customers, users, and managers. Users in the “customers” tier represent customers of Food-Lion and account holders. They will be able to view their MVP savings and instantly get other coupon rewards. Users in the “Users” tier represent employees of Food-Lion. They will be able to view their MVP savings from each customer in their area. This would allow them to track pacific items. Every customer will specifically be assigned one account number that will identify the customer within the Food-Lion MVP Program. Whenever a purchase has been made and the customer uses the MVP Card account number, the savings will automatically be credited to customer purchase. When customers want to use their MVP...
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...MajoA review of financing instruments by Steel majors: Innovations Tata Steel 2011 In March 2011, Tata Steel became the first company to issue Perpetual bonds (Perps) in India. A Perp has no maturity date. The investor gets income from the bond forever. The company, however, has a Call option after the end of the 10th year. The company can therefore, pay off the bond holders and extinguish the bond. The investor cannot redeem the bond ever, but can trade the bond in the secondary market. The coupon rate for the first 10 years is 11.8 percent, paid semi-annually. From the 11th year the coupon rate will be stepped up to 14.80. The coupon rate will be capped at 14.80%. The promoter stake in the company had been diluted by 2.4% in the FPO of January 2011(described below). This is cited as a reason why the company chose to issue bonds rather than equity. Similarly, taking on more debt would have negatively affected its Debt Equity ratios. The company intends to include the instrument as a separate class of capital under schedule 6 of Indian GAAP. This will not increase the interest burden of the company since the interest as and when paid will be recorded as a change in equity on its balance sheet. It can be counted as debt for tax purposes and as equity for ratings. The cost of capital through this instrument is also lower. Cost of equity for markets such as India is 16-24% and cost of debt is around...
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