Security clearance

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) describes ethics as, “especially high standards of honesty, impartiality, character, and conduct” (DHS, 2003). Ethics are an integral part to any government agency. Government employees who are entrusted with intelligence and sensitive information must possess a high level of ethics, due to the risk of exploitation of this information. In my position as a Coordination Center Officer (CCO), I deal with situations and information that are sensitive.…

Section 1 1. A discretionary system the management is set by an administrator on the system in which the administrator will award right of entry to files and programs. The administrator establishes the clearances individuals can be given. An example would be that Joe, John, Amber, and Shellie all work at company Blue Lady Tree Collectors. The company has hired an outside agency to manage the computer network as well as the files and programs. The outside agency was given the information of who…

Internet technology for voting ,education,security and banking . Today almost all government offices are connected by it. A recent example of cyber espionage is breach of the federal government’s background-check database - the office of personal management (OPM) where hackers stole information of 21.5 million people which has information of people applying for security clearances. The data also included fingerprints of 1.1 million Americans,Social Security numbers, phone numbers and addresses…

information by companies. A response to these threats is the growth of the network security which focuses on keeping unauthorized users out and protected information so that productivity can be conducted with minimum interruption. Therefore, the sub field in the IT sector, information security analysis focuses on the monitoring and preventing of future attacks and if the attacks are successful the information security analysts will help to examine the attacks, repair the damage, and get the…

Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone. When Edward Snowden found out that there was an unacceptable violation of privacy being committed by the NSA, he did what he found to be the right thing which was to give awareness to the public about this issue. Snowden discovered that the NSA was conducting surveillance of hundreds of millions of Americans’ electronic communications, including phone calls, text messages and emails. He was able to get access to…

should be set to reduce cyber security risk and not to meet a goal that is set externally, such as compliance with regulatory or industry’s best practices, although once cyber security risks (in line with business needs) are established, external compliance considerations can be easily achieved by performing an audit and closing gaps, if any are identified. At times, various agencies play conflicting roles. Clearly wide gaps between the Department of Homeland Security, DoD, the intelligence…

Introduction In recent years Italy has become the 7th largest economy in the world and it has close ties with the United States. They have a favorable security industry. Although, today they world is changing vastly and globalization is ever present throughout the world. With recessions, financial crisis, MNCs is targeting locations to expand their businesses, promoting growth and finding cost and labor efficient countries. Their goal is to enter emerging or underdeveloped labor markets that…

Safety and security is a big time subject in the Probation Department. It is a way to make sure that all Probation Officers are safe and alive and well. One thing I have found out is that we need to be sure that we are both safe and secure in every situation. Today I Recruit McKnight was given a paper from Instructor Limbrick on safety and security because I failed to follow protocol due to lack of judgement and made a mistake by reporting without a partner. It was irresponsible of me to report…

For instance student teacher relationships in North America are not the same as other countries. Hong Kong students for instance have a high regard for their teachers. In Hong Kong students never call their teacher by their first name, because it's not respectful to the teacher. Also, they hesitate to ask or to answer questions in class because they don't want to lose their face in showing their ignorance in front of the class, and sometimes because their English is not good enough to form a…

Concord Regional Airport (CRA) is a small hub airport in the city of Concord. As of 2015, Allegiant Air is the only commercial airline has flights scheduled to and from CRA. Since the number of flights has been increased from twice a week to a total of six weekly departures, there is a significant impact arises from increasing flight frequency. One of the risk exposures was aircraft emits toxic gases into the atmosphere that creates climate changes and contributes to the pollution of the air and…