Data Protection

Introduction Organizations data is any business most critical asset. With explosion of corporate data in the 1990s, accumulation and management of data is now a priority. Organizations are now trying to accumulate different types of data on excessively large storage system and gathering of clients data, product vendor information, product data and manufacturing metrics has now become part of an enterprise goals. It is this management of data that is now a cause of concern within IT departments,...

Digital Manipulation in Photography

In the dawn of the new century, Photography has evolved in many ways. One particular aspect would be in terms of technology. Photography, nowadays, are be packaged digitally. Instruments and equipment used in producing, enhancing and editing photographs are now in the form of digital images which are edited and manipulated using a program or software in a computer. This technique leads to stunning images and unique ones.  Through the course of the 21st century, digital photography has drastically...

Borrelia burgdorferi

Borrelia burgdorferi is classified as a gram negative (spirochete-spiral shaped bacteria) belonging to the genus Borrelia. b. burgdorferi  occurring mostly in North America and is also found in Europe, Asia. This particular bacterium is the main cause of Lyme disease which is a zoonotic disease mostly transmitted by Ixodid ticks, Ixodes scapularis which is the deer tick and is a multisystem disease characterized by arthritis, neuritis and carditis. Lyme disease was named after a village in...

The Web 2.0 Technology

Information technology enterprises all over the world are faced with security threats especially in the realm of the introduction of the Web 2.0.  Every person in the office feels insecure when their password has leaked to another party.  The effect is even worse when they tramp in to a malware while opening some social site or even they find an email attachment that they did not expect. The introduction of the Web 2.0 is expected to be a great threat to the I.T departments of many firms...

Tidal Power as a Source of Renewable Energy for the UK

The gravitational force of the moon causes the waters of the earths oceans and seas to bulge along the axis directly pointed at the moon (Tidal Power 2010). These forces, coupled with centripetal and centrifugal forces resulting the earths rotation cause the rise and fall of oceanic tides. Tides are highest (spring tides) when the moon and the sun are in line thus pulling earths oceanic waters to one direction and lower (neap tides) when the moon and the sun describe a perpendicular axis centred...

IS at Newark Opthalmic Centre

Task 1 IS Strategy for the Centre The centre is on a growth trajectory and it appears that Dr. John Harrison has been able to convince his patrons about the sincerity in the healthcare services being provided by his centre. Healthcare services, in general are a very crucial and integral part of our lives. With the prevailing competition in almost all fields, healthcare is no exception and requires bracing itself for competing in such a scenario. Hamel and Prahalad (1996) stated, The competition...

LANWAN security of database in cloud computing

This paper will discuss the issues of security in local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs). The security of a database is very important and the achievement of which is imperative for any company which stores their data on a cloud computing environment databases are the assets that say much of the company. They are the most valuable assets of the company and their security is very important to the company. There is a particular benefit of cloud computing whereby training will be...

Shadow Program as a Technology Sales manager

A technology sales manager in a software industry is in charge of sales department and he or she is supposed to have a set target. The current vice president of sales in the software industry will not be available for one week and needs someone to shadow his position. The author of the paper is chosen to shadow the vice president and some qualifications are considered before the appointment is made. Reasons or qualifications for the shadow program include firstly, the capacity to allocate and prioritize...

SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES OF DATA MINING

OVERVIEW  WHAT IS DATA MINING Sometimes referred to as knowledge discovery, data mining is the process of getting data from different angles and transforming it into useful information. Technically, you would say, data mining is the process of finding correlations and patterns among numerous fields in huge relational databases. Data mining is commonly used in practices like fraud detection, marketing, surveillance and scientific discovery. Even though data mining is somehow new term, the technology...

Morgan Stanley Risk Assessment Report

Morgan Stanley (MS) recognizes that information is the most critical resource it has and providing its clients and shareholders with the most up to date information is a vital part of its strategic goals of maintaining its leadership as the best client brand with a global reach, strong capital base and financial holding status (FHC). This risk assessment report will assess MS controls measures against risks that can be exploited by internal and external threats in its interconnected web portals...