Cloud computing

Moving Target Defense The current cybersecurity environment is based around a static defense that has been employed for the past few years to protect information systems (See Figure 6). Unfortunately, this cybersecurity paradigm is not effective against current and future cyber threats. According to Zheng (2014), the weakness of this cybersecurity approach is its passive and reactive nature towards safeguarding information systems. Additionally, this method also allows threat actors the time…

business could fit this test. (2) There is a direct threat to your core source of profits. During the Personal Computer (PC) eras, multiple vendors competed directly to manufacture PCs. (3) The opportunity or threat is outside your core markets. Cloud computing and services enabled consumers to use email and word processing outside of the PC. (4) New ways of making money are a threat to your core capabilities. The Internet made the world smaller and allowed competitors to compete with IBM…

digital literacy skills to three high school students with intellectual disability. Functional digital literacy skills included sending and receiving email messages, organizing social bookmarking to save, share, and access career websites, and accessing cloud storage to download, revise, and upload documents. Results indicated that all students acquired and maintained these functional digital literacy skills. Findings are discussed in the context of teaching essential digital literacy skills to…

of the celebrities. While informing his audience that nobody could find out how those pictures were being released, he makes fun of the possible culprits. ICloud, which is storage and computing service from Apple Inc., was accused of being an unreliable source of saving data. Stewart compared it to an actual cloud looking solid and stable while actually being a compilation of water and air. He then criticizes the people that thought the act of taking nude picture was pointless. Stewart mocks…

“IT certifications fill that gap between what government has failed to regulate and what should be expected of modern day IT professionals.” This is a statement from an article on www.technibble.com called “5 Reasons Why IT Certificates Still Matter” Certifications show your employer that you have gone above and beyond your average degree. You are willing to learn and become an expert in a certain area which is what most companies are looking for. Also with the tech industry always changing and…

How did the product and the company come about? Pets.com was a San Francisco-based retailer, it was one of the earlier companies that existed as a virtual firm with no brick and mortar store locations. Pets.com was created to sell pet food and accessories using the internet as a storefront one of the first e-retailers. The premise was that Pets.com could sell directly to customers online and cut out the middleman. Pets.com would then pass the saving on to the customer. Customers that shopped…

Since the beginning, IBM has been viewed as the backbone into the field of Information Technology. Leading the market in technology, it has provided services to different sectors ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. This report aims to highlight IBM’s use of technology to manage through the challenges that were forced upon companies during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) from 2007-2009. It explores how IBMs response to the GFC was mainly focused around the concept of ‘Smarter…

collaboration, but businesses cannot expect integration to happen organically. By focusing on the following areas, companies will have a greater chance to recruit and retain younger workers: • Create greater access to technology in the workplace • Cloud computing for easier updating and distribution of information • Internal knowledge management to support collaboration • A more comfortable working environment, as the lines between work and private life blur • Integrating technologies within…

Recently, scholars and managers have devoted great attention to corporate social responsibility(CSR). Consistent with McWilliams and Siegel(2001), we define CSR as situations where the firm goes beyond compliance and engages in ‘actions that appear to further some social good, beyond the interests of the firm and that which is required by law’. On Wikipedia, corporate social responsibility(CSR) is defined as a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. Corporate social…

It is expected to gain “135,300” new software and application development jobs before the year 2024, with an overall gain of “531,400” jobs (8). This is due impart to higher demand for cloud computing and the need to be connected. Following Hogan and Robert’s trend, he then lists the growth rate of the computer and mathematical occupation field. He states that “employment is projected to increase 13.1% (8).” Out of this percentile is the statistician…