...Description The culture of a company, also known as organizational Behavior, can be summarized in a set of elements that define its operation, its identity, and its unique spirit in relation to its competitors. It is based on a number of informal components shared by all employees. This is among other common values (ethics, friendliness, environmental friendliness, sense of commitment ...), rituals, dress codes and language, working methods, or milestones related to company. In the FBI case we finds that as the Senate Chairman of the judiciary Committee, the oversight of the organization, states that “the FBI has a culture that too often does not recognize and correct its errors” that is why they had difficulties when it came to accomplishing...
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...In the case Apple v. FBI, both parties seem to be in the correct position since they are defending their own opinion and benefits. However, I consider the reason should go to the FBI. The situation of desiring to encrypt the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook – attacker in the San Bernardino shooting – should not be seen as a violation because today’s situation is forcing us to do it. For example, there are each time more attempts due to terrorism in which many innocent people die. As well, it is highly known that many people depend strongly in technology, Apple products in this case. Therefore, having access to such important tools of communication may mean a great difference. Also, it should be taken in consideration that privacy do may have limits, but as long as respecting it does not put in...
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...Interested in learning more about security? SANS Institute InfoSec Reading Room This paper is from the SANS Institute Reading Room site. Reposting is not permitted without express written permission. Legal Aspects of Privacy and Security: A CaseStudy of Apple versus FBI Arguments The debate regarding privacy versus security has been going on for some time now. The matter is complicated due to the fact that the concept of privacy is a subjective phenomenon, shaped by several factors such as cultural norms or geographical location. In a paradoxical situation, rapid advancements in technology are fast making the technology both the guardian and invader of the privacy. Governments and organizations around the globe are using technology to achieve their objectives in the name of security and conveni... AD Copyright SANS Institute Author Retains Full Rights Legal Aspects of Privacy and Security: A CaseStudy of Apple versus FBI Arguments GIAC (GLEG) Gold Certification Author: Muzamil Riffat, muzamil@hotmail.com Advisor: Chris Walker Accepted: June 1, 2016 Abstract The debate regarding privacy versus security has been going on for some time now. The matter is complicated due to the fact that the concept of privacy is a subjective phenomenon, shaped by several factors such as cultural norms or geographical location. In a paradoxical situation, rapid advancements in technology are fast making the technology both the guardian and invader of the privacy...
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...FBI Study Finds Active Shooter Incidents Increasing By: Amanda Vicinanzo, Senior Editor 10/22/2014 ( 9:40am) In partnership with Texas State University’s Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, the FBI in 2014 initiated a study of active shooter incidents to provide law enforcement and first responders with data to help them better prevent, prepare for, respond and recover from future incidents. The report, A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013, evaluated 160 active shooter incidents, including those at Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary School, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Fort Hood, the Aurora (Colorado) Cinemark Century 16 movie theater, the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, the Washington Navy Yard and numerous other tragic shootings. Special Agent Katherine Schweit, who heads the FBI’s Active Shooter Initiative, says she hopes the study “demonstrates the need not only for enhanced preparation on the part of law enforcement and other first responders, but also for civilians to be engaged in discussions and training on decisions they’d have to make in an active shooter situation.” The FBI emphasized that the report evaluates active shootings, a term more specific than “mass shootings,” which does not encompass all mass killings or shootings in public places. The FBI defines active shooters as “individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in populated areas (excluding shootings...
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...FBI Case Study 9/16/14 Saran Voleti Critical Facts: 1. The FBI is “an intelligence-driven and a threat-focused national security organization.” It has both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities. ( http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/quick-facts) 2. The FBI’s mission is “to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners”.( http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/quick-facts). 3. Headquarted in Washington, the FBI has 35,344 employees. It has 56 field offices and 380 other offices in the US .It also has 60 offices in foreign...
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...Byline: John Foley Can the FBI transform one of the federal government's most problem-plagued IT projects, its Sentinel case management system, into a model of success for other agencies? Sentinel and its predecessor case management system have been a symbol of all that's wrong with government IT--over budget, behind schedule, and short on functionality. Sentinel grew out of an earlier failure, the FBI's Virtual Case File system, started in 2001 and scrapped four years--and $170 million--later. Last September, after a partially completed Sentinel had been put on hold, FBI CIO Chad Fulgham decided to take over management of the project from lead contractor Lockheed Martin. Fulgham, a former senior VP of IT with Lehman Brothers who joined the FBI in December of 2008, outlined a plan to use agile development. For the past eight months, a small team of FBI technologists have been developing "working software" in intervals of a few weeks, then rolling that into bigger releases every two or three months. Speaking at InformationWeek's Government IT Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., on May 5, Fulgham and FBI CTO Jeff Johnson, another former Lehman Brothers IT manager, explained how they shifted the Sentinel project from traditional waterfall application development--where requirements are established at the beginning and can take years to deliver. Fulgham said a "system of record" will be delivered this summer, with a broader release in September. FBI agents and other employees...
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...Case Study ERP Implementation Failures ERP systems are an integrated software solution that is typically offered through a vendor as packaged software that supports the organization’s supply chain and other business functions, such as, receiving, inventory management, customer order management, production, planning, shipping, accounting, and human resource management. The use of ERP is very widespread across a multitude of industries. As a matter of fact, a report by Computer Economics Inc. states that, “76% of manufacturers, 35% of insurance and health care companies, and 24% of Federal Government agencies already have an ERP system or are in the process of installing one.” Over 60% of Fortune 1000 companies have implemented ERP systems (Hawkins & Stein, 2004). It is not just large firms that are implementing ERP systems, small and medium size companies are making use of ERP systems as well (O’Leary, 2004). ERP systems have expanded across the globe and many of world’s leading companies consider Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems an essential information systems infrastructure to survive and prosper in today’s economy. There are many advantages to ERP systems. Companies that have successfully implemented ERP systems report improvement in management decision making, improvement in efficiency, improvement in information exchange, improvement in performance and productivity levels and improvement in customer service and customer satisfaction, just to name a few. So...
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...Case Study On Passport Visa Issues Concerning Terrorism Kevin M. Carter University of Maryland University College HMLS 302 In 2002, President George W. Bush initiated his National Strategy for Homeland Security. In this he stated that the U.S. government has no more important mission than protecting the homeland from future terrorist attacks. The strategy called for preventing the entry of foreign terrorists into our country and using all legal means to identify; halt; and, where appropriate, prosecute or bring immigration or other civil charges against terrorists in the United States. Though this was an initiative and strategy that began with much thunder with the “terrorist storm” that was brought to our country on September 11, 2001…it faded and has lost much of its backing (Feingold, 2012). Analysis has indicated that the U.S. government has no specific written policy on the use of visa evocations as an antiterrorism tool and no written procedures to guide State in notifying the relevant agencies of visa revocations on terrorism grounds (Alden, 2008). State and INS have written procedures that guide some types of visa revocations; however, neither they nor the FBI have written internal procedures for notifying their appropriate personnel to take specific actions on visas revoked by the State Department. State and INS officials could articulate their informal policies and procedures for how and for what...
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...way in which the FBI reports and measures these crimes in their Uniformed Crime Reporting (UCR) system. The author further elucidates blue collar crimes and how their culture is more populated by the media. This paper also includes the variations of Index I and Index II crimes and the manner in which they are reported either as violent or property crimes under the UCR system, as well as, the sentence that accompany such crimes. The author concludes this paper with a basic understanding of these three fields and the importance of their role within our criminal justice system that together create a unified force to battle crime. Introduction To get a better understanding of how our criminal justice system operates, society needs to know the involvement and the many specialists that are needed to keep our communities safe as well as, get the criminals off the streets to prevent them from committing future crime. One should look at it like baking a cake and each ingredient is an important part of the recipe. 1st ingredient is the investigation, 2nd ingredient is solving the crime, 3rd ingredient is corrections for these offenses. Finally 4th ingredient is the icing on the cake, preventing criminal behavior and preventing crimes associated to this behavior from being committed. * Explain the differences between criminologists, criminalists, and forensic psychologists and their respective areas of study. Criminology is the study that is within...
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...This is a reality of our living here in this culture. Americans have a greater chance of falling prey to a violent crime than most western nations. Specifically I want to write about abduction here and abroad. The United states citizens end up missing quite a lot. The statistics show as one of the highest committed crimes domestically. According to one study 2,300 people are reported missing every day in the United States. It seams as a relentless parade of missing persons. I believe that number to be inflated so I wont go to lengths to support it or site it, however I do think that we as citizens here are unaware of how dangerous it is to live here. On the up side we are much more vigilant at perusing the missing persons cases. I would...
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...3) What do you think of the CIO’s final comment about how to change attitudes? Do you think it will work why or why not? The CIO’s comment was because of the failed VCF system, distrustful of the technology by the FBI bureau, lack of new system that encourage open communication and information sharing. On whether it would work, my answer is yes. It will work because the FBI strategy will be changed through continuous training programs and the introduction of a new system design that fits the FBI standard. Another reason I think it will work is the implementation of the Sentinel. With the benefits of the case management system, the FBI strategy will change. 4) If you were the CIO what would you do to help the FBI modernize and make better...
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...(Ahmed).In America there have been multiple shootings in the past year and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to stop them by finding evidence and getting leads to stop future terrorists.The FBI has been investigating the San Bernardino attack because there main goal is to stop terrorism in America and make it a safer place and recently, the FBI acquired Syed Farook’s iPhone and is trying to unlock it ,but since the Apple Iphone is very secure with a six digit passcode it would take five and a half years long to unlock it at 12 tries a second (Guo).The FBI has asked Apple many times to help unlock the phone and they have denied every time and the FBI has brought it to court. This is a problem for the FBI because they could unlock the iPhone and find encrypted data, that would reveal much needed terrorist information. Apple should unlock the Iphone of the terrorist even though it violates his privacy because the Patriot Act allows the FBI...
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...(Potts) Ana Belen Montes – The “Queen of Cuba” 11 February 2014 * Montes blindsided the intelligence community with blatant acts of treachery. Montes was the pinnacle Analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), yet, in her secret life, her true fervor showed as she worked for Fidel Castro and the Cuban Intelligence Services, Dirección de Inteligencia, (DI), translated in English as the Intelligence Directorate of Cuba. Montes listened to coded messages over shortwave radio, passed secret files to handlers in busy public locales, and snuck into the Communist country adorned with a fake passport. “Your honor, I engaged in the activity that brought me before you because I obeyed my conscience rather than the law. I believe our government's policy towards Cuba is cruel and unfair, profoundly unneighborly, and I felt morally obligated to help the island defend itself from our efforts to impose our values and our political system on it.” (Montes, 2012) Montes gave this statement to the presiding judge who presided over Magistrate Number: 01-0568M. (United States of America versus Ana Belen Montes, Defendant., 2002) Montes showed no remorse, no contrition, and no regret for her actions through her career as an agent for the DI. The purpose of this brief is to explain the life, career working for the United States (U.S.) Government and Cuban government, the downfall which resulted, and the sentencing of DIA Analyst General Schedule (GS)-14 Ana Belen Montes...
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...peoples behavior evolve around weighing the consequences and benefits before engaging in a crime before a rational choice is made. The individual perceives chances gain outweighs the punishment, this is what triggers people to engage in criminal activity. The research below show that the male offenders are motivated to commit violent crimes with their spouses because they perceive chances of gain outweighs the perceived punishment or loss, they know that their spouses will not tell the police of the violent crimes committed. Information on violent victimization of Aboriginal women in the Canadian provinces, 2009 provides studies on violence against women in Canada, it is an ongoing issue that has not given lead way to resolution and continues to complicate life for the Aboriginal women of Canada (Brzozowski 2006). The study shows that Aboriginal women were more than three times likely to report being a victim of violent crime verses non-Aboriginal women during 2009. Men perpetrators acting alone committed the violent crimes via spousal violence causing injury to the women. The injured victims would only tell of the event to a family member or informal source. General Social Survey GSS show that many Aboriginal female victims of crime are relatively young representation of victimization. 54% of victims of violence were between the ages of 15 to 34 with 31% of females age 15 and older living in the 10 provinces. The GSS report also identify...
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...(Virtual Case Files) IT project is one of the most highly publicized software failure in U.S history. The main goal of the FBI’s VCF project was to automate the FBI's paper driven work environment, allow agents and intelligence analysts to share vital investigative information, and replace the obsolete Automated Case Support (ACS) system. The FBI outsourced the code writing for the VCF project in the year 2001 to contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) based out of San Diego,CA. SAIC delivered 700,000 lines of code that was overly bug ridden, and functionally off target from what the FBI expected, that the FBI had to terminate the $170 million project which included $105 million worth of unusable code. Various government audits and independent reports show that the FBI did not have the proper IT management and technical expertise, and should share the blame for the VCF project failure. At the termination of the project in 2005, Glenn A. Fine, the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general, described the main factors that contributed to the VCF's failure. His list included the following factors: poorly defined and slowly evolving design requirements; overly ambitious schedules; and the lack of a plan to guide hardware purchases, network deployments, and software development for the bureau. The FBI announced that it would buy off-the-shelf software to be installed in phases over the next four years from 2005-2009. The FBI will have...
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