...this exploitation, companies subject themselves to lawsuits from their own customers. These companies often are ignorant of the simple fact that they have been exploited until customers report the issues to these companies and corporations. Many times, more than thirty days goes by before someone alerts the company of a possible security breech. Cost of an electronic exploit can be greater than a million dollars per incident as reported by the FBI. This information is found in the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) report of cyber threats in the United States. In order to help counterbalance this, smaller to midsized companies could spend less than $5,000 to harden their systems and operating systems to put a statefull firewall in place. As stated in this paper, these companies often lack the resources, materials and funds to do so. With the FBI report showing reported incidents, there are thousands of incidents that go unreported. Often these incidents are yet to be discovered. With this number of small to mid-size corporations ignoring or slowly implementing security measures, more and more electronic computer crimes are beginning to take place throughout the U.S. With extortion now moving into the digital age, many corporations do not report intrusions to law enforcement in order to avoid negative publicity. Reports of an intrusion could directly have a negative effect on the company’s sales and position in a global competitive market. Approximately 35% of...
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...standards from HIPAA Security and HITECH Rules, Heart-Healthy Insurance is devoted to ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all electronic protected health information (ePHI) it creates, receives, maintains, and/or transmits. To provide for the appropriate utilization, and oversight of Heart-Healthy Insurance’s efforts toward compliance of the HIPAA security regulations, Heart-Healthy Insurance has assigned its Information Security Analyst team responsible for facilitating the training and supervision of all Heart-Healthy Insurance employees. Policy I. Heart-Healthy Insurance will grant access to PHI based on their job functions and responsibilities. PHI includes the following: demographic information, employees and patient’s medical record, Images of employees and patients, any health information that can lead to the identity of employees and patients, billing information about patients. Etc. The Information security analyst team is responsible for the determination of which employees require access to PHI and what level of access they require through discussions with the employee’s manager and approval. II. "No cardholder data should be stored unless it’s necessary to meet the needs of the business". (PCI Security Standards Council, 2010). III. Every Heart-Healthy new employee must sign a confidentiality and security standards agreement for handling customer information. IV. Every Heart-Healthy new employee will undergo security training that will be...
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...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 from an all-source perspective which is necessary for strategic intelligence...
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...Calculators, lemmings or frame-makers? The intermediary role of securities analysts Daniel Beunza and Raghu Garud Introduction As Wall Street specialists in valuation, sell-side securities analysts constitute a particularly important class of market actor.1 Analysts produce the reports, recommendations and price targets that professional investors utilize to inform their buy and sell decisions, which means that understanding analysts’ work can provide crucial insights on the determinants of value in the capital markets. Yet our knowledge of analysts is limited by insufficient attention to Knightian uncertainty. Analysts estimate the value of stocks by calculating their net present value or by folding the future back into the present. In so doing, they are faced with the fundamental challenge identified by Frank Knight, that is, with the difficulty of making decisions that entail a future that is unknown. These decisions, as Knight wrote, are characterized by ‘neither entire ignorance nor complete . . . information, but partial knowledge’ of the world (Knight, [1921] 1971: 199). The finance literature has not examined the Knightian challenge faced by analysts. Indeed, existing treatments circumvent the problem by adopting one of two extreme positions. In the first, put forward by orthodox economists, it is assumed that Knightian uncertainty is non-existent and that calculative decision-making is straightforward. Analysts are presented as mere calculators in a probabilistic world of...
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...Specialist Instructor Management Technical writing Acquisition/reporting Education and Training: Bachelors of Science (BS), Information Systems Management, University of Maryland University College (UMUC), graduation fall 2014 Associate Applied Science (AAS), electro mechanical engineering, Excelsior University, Albany NY Military Basic Signals Collection Course Military Intermediate Signals Collection Course Master Training Specialist (MTS) certification, Pensacola FL Combat Direction Finding System operator (CDF) certification Ships Signals Exploitation Space (SSES) equipment operator certification Basic Instructor Training (BIT) certification Employment History Systems Data Analyst 4: Boeing, Annapolis Junction 2013-Present Responsible for planning, developing and conducting Program customer outreach and relations efforts. Provide strategic communications support to the program and Program Management. Prepare, develop, and implement strategic communications plans and stakeholder analysis plans and support the development of client content. Researches complex or multiple processes, applications, systems and data to identify functional requirements for application or system design. Consults with customers to clarify and refine complex requirements. Interprets and translates complex requirements into functional specifications. Leads and performs activities to develop and...
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...Research on information management IM Professional position that I aspire to have From my point of view, I will choose business technology analyst as my aspiring position. It is a position that requires people to have the technical background and business knowledge. As a student in information management, this position matched us best. A special profile is listed as follows. Maggie H Chen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggiehchen) who was graduate from Syracuse University is a business technology analyst. She have a dual degree in Finance and Information Management and Technology. She is aspire to become an effective international business communicator and is currently have more than one year working experience as business technology analyst. Practices that will cause failures in IM management In this specific position, the practice that you cannot correctly translate the business requirement into technical requirement will most likely be the case failure in IM management. Considering the specific profile listed above, it is possible for her to incorrectly translate the requirement since she didn’t have the strong technology background. Business analyst is now crucial for the success of the information management. Since this position provide the “translation service” for the business department and technology department, and imprecise translations will result in failure of the project. A study [2] has showed that poor definition requirements (50%), communications...
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...CONNECTING SALARIES TO TALENT 2013 SALARy GuIdE FOR IT PROFESSIONALS In today’s tumultuous, cost-conscious economy, businesses are striving to maximize their return on investment. However, while many view ROI as an exercise of “doing more with less,” in the IT world, optimizing ROI is all about doing things better and doing it with the best talent available. It’s no surprise then that the competition for professionals with the latest skills — electronic medical records implementation, cloud computing, mobile app development, etc. — is intensifying. In fact, the unemployment rate for IT positions is well below 4 percent, resulting in an extremely shallow pool of available talent and creating challenges for businesses looking to connect with the right professionals for their critical positions. At Modis, we help businesses overcome this challenge every day by making it easier to connect with, and hold on to, exceptional professionals with the right mix of IT skills and proven experience — those professionals that bring not only technical aptitude, but also deliver significant business value. One of the ways we can make it easier is through our 2013 Salary Guide, which features the most thorough, accurate and current collection of compensation insight for the IT industry. The figures presented in this guide are based on detailed hiring metrics from our nationwide branch network and a comprehensive examination of national hiring data and trends. In addition, the Salary...
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... d. only financial and real assets that are marketable. (c, easy) 4. The retirement plans that guarantee retirees a set amount of money each month are known as: a. 401(k) plans b. self-directed plans c. defined-benefit plans d. defined-contribution plans (c, moderate) The Importance of Studying Investments 5. The investment professionals that arrange the sale of new securities are called: a. arbitragers b. traders c. investment bankers d. specialists (c, moderate) 6. Another name for stockbrokers is: a. specialists b. registered representatives c. security analysts d. portfolio managers (b, moderate) 7. Investment professionals whose jobs may depend on their performance relative to the market are the: a. registered representatives b. security analysts c. investment bankers d. portfolio managers (d,...
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...procedures; whether it is strategic, operational or tactical, information must be exploited through the collection and analysis process better known as the intelligence cycle. Within this cycle are numerous disciplines that create an entire technical arena such as Signals Intelligence, Imagery Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Human Intelligence, ALL-SOURCE and BIOMETRICS, just to name a few and the Judge Advocate General’s Office or (JAG), regarding any related legal matters. These facets, among others, provided me with an in-depth picture of the tasks or assignments at hand, and, in conjunction with the rules and regulations...
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...1. Discuss whether the analysts following Intel appear to have been influenced by any biases, both generally and in their reaction to Intel’s announcement in September 2000 (3 marks). 2. Discuss whether James Stewart’s assessment of eBay reflects any biases (3 marks). 3. In what ways are the events described at Intel and eBay similar and in what ways are they different (4 marks)? Question # 1 Brandt Cornell’s paper “Is the response of analyst to information consistent with fundamental valuation?” reveals that analyst recommendations are pro cyclical. As bad news arrives and the underlying price of the firm’s stock goes down , analyst downgrade company , the opposite effect arises when good news arrives. As Cornell says , this leads to a positive feedback loop. Thus, if analyst recommendations influence investor actions , then such a feedback could strengthen price movements in both direction. recommendation on DCF valuation but instead relied on representativeness. Debondt and Tahler (1990 found a tendency towards overreaction in forecast changes and under reaction in forecast revisions. As in the case of Intel , managers responded that market had overreacted. Debondt and Tahler also found overreaction for positive forecast modifications and under reaction for negative forecast modifications. Finally, they also found that overreaction, under reaction and excess optimism increase with forecast horizon suggesting that the longer the prediction horizon...
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...Introduction This paper aims to investigate the relationship between an analyst and a management and to see if there is a correlation between each of their actions. For example, managers tend to disclose and attribute outside negative factors as a way to explain a low profit period. If analysts believe in the explanation and deems it as plausible and truthful, they predict higher future earnings and stock valuations than if the managers had not provided an explanation. Similarly, if analysts found the disclosure to be implausible and discredited, they would forecast lower earnings and valuations for the company. Although analysts have been offering predictions on company futures for several decades, there’s been a recent increase in the legitimacy. Financial statements and earnings announcements are public and easily located on the sec.gov/ website, but it seems that users would rather trust an analyst with experience than the financial statements themselves. With the increase in popularity - most likely due to the ease of accessibility - shareholders and potential investors have also grown more dependent and reliant on the analysts and their analysis. Conflict of Interests With the majority of financial analysts working in banks, pension funds, and other businesses, they are able to have a thorough understanding of what the 10-K can disclose. Many times, their analysis of a company are so accredited and deemed “trustworthy” that it is published in major news outlets...
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...and do not follow any regular pattern. Technical Analysts see meaningful pattern in their charts. This raises the Question as to whether the intrinsic value of stocks has any meaning. Are they related to the security prices? MARKET EFFICIENCY: the expectations of the investors regarding the future cash flows are translated or reflected on the share prices. The accuracy and the Quickness in which the market translates the expectations into prices are termed as market efficiency. There are 2 types of market efficiencies Operational efficiency Informational efficiency Operational efficiency; At stock exchange operational efficiency is measured by factors like time taken to execute the order and the number of bad deliveries. Investors are concerned with the operational efficiency of the market. Informational efficiency; It is a measure of swiftness or the market’s reaction to new information.Nerw information in the form of economic reports, company analysis, political statements, and announcement of new industrial policy is received by the market frequently. How does the market react to it? Security prices adjust themselves very rapidly and accurately. They never take a long time to adjust to the new information. LIQUIDITY TRADERS; These traders’ investments and resale of shares depend on their individual fortunes. Liquidity traders may sell their shares to pay their bills. They do not investigate before they invest. INFORMATION TRADERS; Analyse before adopting any buy or sell...
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...of Business Warren Buffett Australian School of Business • Born on August 30, 1930 • The richest person in the world 2008 with $62 billion, and the third richest in 2010 with 47 billion • Lives in the same house in the central Omaha that he bought in 1958 for $31,500 and today, it is valued at around $700,000 • Largest shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway • Recent News: – Invested aggressively during the current crisis – Lost $25 billion in 2008-2009 – Called for more income tax for rich Americans (but not necessarily investment tax) Warren Buffett Australian School of Business • Newspaper delivery boy at age of 13 • First investment in pinball machine at age of 15 • Graduated from Columbia and worked as an security analyst for 2 years • Started an investment partnership with $100 at age of 26; 13 years later, he cashed out with $25 million • Controlled Berkshire Hathaway and transformed it into an investment vehicle – Net worth increased from $22 million to $69 billion in 40 years, at an annual growth rate of 22% – Owned a diversified portfolio of businesses, mainly insurance companies – Invested in publicly listed stocks (American Express, BYD, CocaCola, Moody’s, Wells Fargo, etc.) Share Price of Berkshire Hathaway A Australian School of Business Buffet’s Investment Philosophy • Australian...
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...…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Insider Trading – Opposing Viewpoints ……………..………………………………………………. 5 Insider Trade in the United States .………………………………………………………………………… 7 Insider Trading in the E.U ……………………………………………………………………………………. 9 Comparing the U.S. and the E.U ……………………………………………………………………….. 10 International Cooperation …………………………………………………………………………………… 11 Conclusions ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 12 End Notes …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 13 INTRODUCTION The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defines insider trading as both legal and illegal conduct of corporate insiders in relation with buying or selling securities in their own companies . When corporate officers, directors, or employees trade securities within their firm, they are required to report such activities to the SEC. However, some individuals take advantage of their privileged position; having access to nonpublic, material information about the security, insiders sometimes engage in security trading, creating this way a conflict of interests and a breach of duty as corporate agents. A recent article published by the Wall Street Journal refers to investigations conducted by U.S. and U.K. financial authorities. The article reads: “some banks were criticized for not stopping employees from inappropriately trading on their own personal accounts...
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