...United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Committees June 2015 INSIDER THREATS DOD Should Strengthen Management and Guidance to Protect Classified Information and Systems GAO-15-544 June 2015 INSIDER THREATS DOD Should Strengthen Management and Guidance to Protect Classified Information and Systems Highlights of GAO-15-544, a report to congressional committees. Why GAO Did This Study What GAO Found Since 2010, the United States has suffered grave damage to national security and an increased risk to the lives of U.S. personnel due to unauthorized disclosures of classified information by individuals with authorized access to defense information systems. Congress and the President have issued requirements for structural reforms and a new program to address insider threats. The Department of Defense (DOD) components GAO selected for review have begun implementing insider-threat programs that incorporate the six minimum standards called for in Executive Order 13587 to protect classified information and systems. For example, the components have begun to provide insider-threat awareness training to all personnel with security clearances. In addition, the components have incorporated some of the actions associated with a framework of key elements that GAO developed from a White House report, an executive order, DOD guidance and reports, national security systems guidance, and leading practices recommended...
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...Delprøve 1a I hver af nedende sætninger er en grammatisk fejl understreget. Ret fejlene, og forklar dine rettelser. Brug relevant grammatisk/faglig terminologi. Skriv den korrekte sætning sammen med din forklaring. Det er rigtig godt først at slå fast hvad problemet er, for derefter at forklare. EX. Forkert brug af pronominer…. Bla bla bla |Besvarelse 1a: | |1. |Mrs Ugwu is not happy in the small town and would had preferred to stay in the capital Lagos where the | | |family used to live. | |Forklaring: | | | |Forklaring: | | |I den forkerte sætning står verballedet i førdatid (pluskvamperfektum) - der kan ikke være førdatid i en | | |nutidssætningen. Verballedet skal stå i førnutid, da sætningen står i nutid. Man danner førnutid på | | |engelsk ved at have en nutidsbøjning af ’to have’ efterfulgt af en kort tillægsform. | | |Den rettede sætning: ...
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...Seminar One Essay Test The first method is for a bill to pass both houses of the legislature, by a two-thirds majority in each. Once the bill has passed both houses, it goes on to the states. This is the route taken by all current amendments. Due to some long outstanding amendments, Congress will normally put a time limit for the bill to be approved as an amendment which is typically seven years. The second method prescribed is for a Constitutional Convention to be called by two-thirds of the legislatures of the States, and for that Convention to propose one or more amendments. These amendments are then sent to the states to be approved by three-fourths of the legislatures or conventions. Regardless of which of the two proposal routes is taken, the amendment must be ratified, or approved, by three-fourths of states. There are two ways to do this, too. The text of the amendment may specify whether the bill must be passed by the state legislatures or by a state convention. The Bill of Rights were passed due to the fact that the Federalists basically horse traded with several states to get the constitution ratified. It still was no easy task getting the Bill of Rights ratified. James Madison had to go through and pick out the best ideas from state conventions as he drafted the Bill of Rights. The rights protected individuals from the federal government trampling their rights. Due to the recent war with England and the oppression of the King fresh in mind the Bill of Rights was...
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...LEGAL ISSUES FOR BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (LIT): TASK 1 TIPS Task 1 requires you to apply three different employment laws (FMLA, ADEA & ADA) to three different situations and determine whether or not there was a violation of the applicable law. Getting Started: 1. Login to Taskstream and review the task instructions and grading rubric for Task 310.1.5-02, 11, 13. 2. Go to the LIT Course of Study and read the materials related to FMLA, ADEA & ADA. Formatting Your Paper: Your paper should consist of 3 separate sections. If you would like to include an introduction paragraph you can but it is not required. Each section should include a discussion of at least 3 major provisions of the applicable law, how the law applies to the facts and whether or not there was a violation of the law. Be sure to review the general facts given about Company X as well since some of this information is necessary to determine if the law applies to Company X and whether or not there was a violation. Please note citations to the applicable laws must be included. See sample format below: Situation A -Discuss at least 3 major provisions of FMLA. (Generally, this is a paragraph or two.) -Discuss the key facts in Situation A. (Generally a paragraph.) -Determine if the law applies to Company x and state whether or not it was violated. Be sure to show how you reached your conclusion. It is not enough to simply state that there was or was...
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... When you chew gum while taking tests and someone is watching you it helps you make you stay focused longer. In previous research chewing gum helps in some areas of cognition. In another study participants who chewed gum had quicker reaction times and also better test results. In the same study participants who didn’t chew gum did better in the beginning but had worse results in the end (2). In another previous study it said students who chewed gum improved math scores and final grade scores (3). Now I’ll be talking about different previous studies. At St. Lawrence University 159 students were given cognitive test like saying random things and numbers backwards,...
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...assessments have their advantages and disadvantages. Formal assessments are standardized tests that are designed by test specialists. There are given and scored under a standard condition. Informal assessments are tests designed by teachers for use in their classroom. Standardized tests are a type of formal assessments. Standardized tests are formal assessments because the tests are given in the same manner every time. They are fixed choice tests. It is a published achievement test. These are assessments that have been made to allow students to answer a vast amount of questions in a short time period. Since these tests are standardized they will all be the same unless there are different versions of the same test with the questions in different order. By using the same tests the answers can be machine scored. There will not be any mistakes due to grading error. They are convenient to assess student’s knowledge. These are the advantages of using standardized tests. With any given test there are some disadvantages to them, even those designed to be the best. Since standardized tests are fixed choices tests, they can exaggerate accurate information and minimal level skills at the sacrifice of advanced order problem solving and conceptual skills. They also take away from teaching time. These tests usually last a few hours, and during this time students are not learning. Standardized tests also do not assess the same curriculum. Every state has its own curriculum that it...
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...this kid that attempted suicide because he felt as if he was an outcast to his peers. This story made me realize that the personality of an individual can determine whether or not a person is capable of overcoming some of the cruel and insensitive barriers that are placed in his or her pathway by the people that he or she has to deal with on a day to day basis. There are many traits that I have adopted throughout my life which defines my personality. I can really appreciate my family for grooming me into the man that I am today. I am not saying that every day was superb, but I have to appreciate the good and the not-so-good days that I personally experienced. I would consider my personality to be like one of a debating perfectionist. Anything that I do, I give it one hundred percent of me. I will not settle for anything less than what I...
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...CONTENTS PART A The Graduate Marketplace 1 - 4 PART B Intended Career Path 5 - 11 PART C Next Step 12 - 13 Appendices Identified Target Position (Job Advertisement) Cover Letter for CV Curriculum Vitae (CV) Job Application Form Career Plan and Self Analysis Career Anchor Inventory Psychometric Test Reports : Verbal Reasoning Skills : Numerical Reasoning Skills : Abstract Reasoning Skills : Type Dynamics Indicator Observer Feedback Forms : Assessment Centre Activity PART A Industry The industry I have chosen is the Customer Service/Management Industry and it is my passion to be able to interact with clients and customers and cater their needs because almost every industry these days is based on customers’ feedback. Organizations work endlessly to increase their client satisfaction levels which are because customer service is a central fragment of preserving continuing customer relationships that are crucial to unending revenue. Not only companies but most industries now focus on customer satisfaction hence creating huge graduate employment opportunities as well as graduate training programmes...
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...Construct and Support an Argument Angela Miars University of Phoenix Management MGT 521 Russell Arenz III July 12, 2010 Construct and Support an Argument My decision to continue my education and pursue an MBA is to gain the required skills needed to start a new career in my near future. Pursuing an MBA will make it possible to live a better economic life and to have a good job with security and top pay. I have chosen this route even with the current economic situation, knowing that new jobs may not be available by the time I finish with my MBA. An MBA would benefit me greatly in a variety of ways. Pursuing an MBA will aid in the development of the skills I need in the finance and accounting areas. Of course the increase in pay from possessing an MBA does not hurt either. When researching jobs online I am finding that by having a master’s degree, the pay is substantially higher than those with a bachelor’s degree. Other than career and financial reasons, I do have a personal goal to achieve more than my siblings. Out of four sisters only two of us have a bachelor’s degree. I would love nothing more than to become the other sibling to obtain a masters degree. Plain and simple, I want to do better than all of my sisters. In this economy, having a good paying job with security is vital. “In nearly every sector of the globe, the prospect of making more money and living a better economic life draws thousands of students to MBA programs” (Euders.com, 2009)...
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...acquired abilities (skills) or attitude. The innate nature of aptitude is in contrast to achievement, which represents knowledge or ability that is gained.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Intelligence 2 Combined aptitude and knowledge tests 3 See also 4 References Intelligence[edit] Aptitude and intelligence quotient are related, and in some ways opposite views of human mental ability. Whereas intelligence quotient sees intelligence as being a single measurable characteristic affecting all mental ability, aptitude refers to one of many different characteristics which can be independent of each other, such as aptitude for military flight, air traffic control, or computer programming.[2] This is more similar to the theory of multiple intelligences. Concerning a single measurable characteristic affecting all mental ability, analysis of any group of intelligence test scores will nearly always show them to be highly correlated. The U.S. Department of Labor's General Learning Ability, for instance, is determined by combining Verbal, Numerical and Spatial aptitude subtests. In a given person some are low and others high. In the context of an aptitude test the "high" and "low" scores are usually not far apart, because all ability test scores tend to be correlated. Aptitude is better applied intra-individually to determine what tasks a given individual is more skilled at performing. Inter-individual aptitude differences are typically not very significant due to IQ differences...
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...sweating. She was fifteen minutes into her math final when she began to panic. This exam was worth most of her grade in the class. She understood math—even liked it—and usually did really well. Her constant problem was that she wasn’t a strong test-taker. Her grades never reflected her understanding of the material she studied. Now, here she was, once again stuck on one problem worth twenty-five points on the test, and she was drawing a blank. She put her head down on the desk and concentrated as hard as she could. She remembered doing a similar problem in class and explaining it to her friend Jessie, but now she was so stressed out by the test, she couldn’t even remember how to begin the problem. She lifted her head and stared at her test. She listened to the clock tick on the wall and imagined her parents’ expression when she receives her report card. Jessie was sitting right in front of her. He is always a good test taker and had already solved the problem. The teacher had his backed turned and was on the other side of the room. Georgia could look over Jessie’s shoulder, get the answer, and no one would know. Georgia needed to think quickly. She thought about how unfair it was that she regularly does badly on tests even though she works so hard in class and understands the material, too. She thought about how often she helped Jessie in class throughout the semester. What should she do? She prided herself on doing what was right. But how right is...
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...Shaking hands, tear-like sweat on foreheads, mouths running fast to think of anything but our impending doom. It seemed as if we had waited for hours. On Tuesday, May 3rd, my classmates and I sat to take the AP Physics 1 exam. On this dreadful day, we were ushered into the testing room promptly at 12:00 p.m. and were told to put away the study materials we were all cramming with in the hall. We thought the test would begin shortly, but –much to our dismay– it did not. One of the A.M. tests of the day, AP Spanish, had technical difficulties and had not yet let out. We were forced to wait in this bleak room until the other test let out. Unable to even glance at our notes, the confidence we were filled with upon entering the room chipped away with each minute. When the final student arrived...
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...The author states “that random drug testing has no impact on student drug use and abuse.” It is stated that random drug testing violates students rights and funds the multi-million drug industry. The author stated that schools should rely on their parents observation as the primary means for determining students drug use. Although random student drug testing does not test the entire school, it is meant for students that participate in extracurricular activities in school or those who drive. If students are warned that they might be randomly drug tested they won’t risk getting caught. A kid who chooses to do drugs is already taking a chance on randomly getting caught by someone. Students can easily avoid school activities and would much rather do that than stop smoking or doing drugs. The white house criticized the Michigan state study for not looking at the effectiveness that random drug testing has. Michigan then went on and did a follow up study and found that schools who did random drug testing, that 12th graders were more likely to be the ones smoking marijuana. John Walters called for a detailed pre- and post- random data. This is a study to show the drug rate before and after the random drug...
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...Computer-based testing (CBT) has emerged as one of the recent “innovative” approaches to assessments most pursued by states. CBT is lauded as the answer to having cheaper and speedier test delivery for state and district-wide assessments. It is also seen by some as an avenue toward greater accessibility for students with disabilities. In this report we explore the context of CBT, current state computer-based tests, and considerations for students with disabilities, in part as follow-up to a similar exploration that occurred in the early 2000s when just a few states were beginning to develop and implement CBT for their state assessments. Nine considerations for states and districts are presented: • Consider the assumptions and beliefs of various stakeholders about computer-based instruction and assessments. • Consider the system as a whole, from the computer infrastructure to classroom and instructional experiences with computers before deciding whether and how to use CBT. • Consider the computer or online platform first, with input from individuals who know students with disabilities and their accessibility needs. • Consider a process for bringing in the needed expertise to delineate the specific accessibility features of CBT, and to determine what specific accommodations may still be needed by students with disabilities, as well as to determine whether a computer-based test may create new accessibility issues. • Determine the policies for which accessibility features will...
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...It is that time of the year again. The University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT) is just around the corner and you are surfing the Net, joining forums about THE test and looking for “special tips” for taking the examination, aren’t you? I see you. I cannot help but remember how chill I was on my exam day. It was not really because I was so confident that I knew everything the premier state university expected me to know. I think it was more because I did not even think I would make the cut. I did not get to attend any review class nor did I buy all the best and recommended UPCAT reviewers. As many UPCAT passers will tell you, it is not really about how much you have studied the summer before for the entrance exams but how much you have learned in school since Day 1. “UPCAT is not a day but a season. It started the day you realized you needed to work hard for your high school grades so it could help you ace the test. UPCAT … started when you began to hope to be an Iskolar ng Bayan,” says broadcast communication graduate Joseph Cataan. All you need for UPCAT are refreshers because, as they say, “you already know what you know.” I was also calm and cool about the whole thing because I was never pressured by my parents. On UPCAT day, my dad said, “Just do what you have to do.” And so I did. People will tell you that getting into UP is not the be-all and end-all but it pays to be assured that you did your part, from pre- to post-exam. Survival tips Here...
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