The Breach

I have always felt the urge to help others, whether it is through community outreach activities or simply helping my peers learn a melody in my orchestra class. This is why when I was granted the opportunity to become a peer tutor and teacher's aide at my school starting my Junior year, I did not hesitate to take it. I tutor students in the resource program for one hour a day, during school, five days a week in multiple subjects including Math, History, and English. When I began tutoring, I had…

A water table marks the top of the saturated zone of groundwater. When something is saturated, it means one substance (Like soil) is filled with another substance (Like water). Therefore, the area filled with water is called the saturated zone. This zone can be called the phreatic zone or the zone of saturation. This is always the zone below the water table. Directly above a water table there is always a capillary fringe. The water table separates the capillary fringe from the zone of saturation…

affected by a security breach. Target suffered a large security breach in 2014 that…

fell victim to an organizational data breach during 2009 (Zurich, 2010, p. 2). The Ponemon Institute findings illustrate a necessity for businesses to expect to be a target for nefarious actors who seek to procure sensitive customer data. In the assignment scenario, the retail store unwittingly became a member in the growing percentage of organizations faced with customer data breaches. In an attempt to dissect and analyze the retail store’s customer data breach, I will begin this essay with…

A cyber breach occurs when someone gains access to information they should not have. In our age of digitization, all businesses face cyber attack risks that could halt operations temporarily or permanently. Discover the cost of a cyber breach and ways you can protect your business. Calculating the Cost of Cyber Breaches The Wall Street Journal estimated that cyber crime in 2014 cost U.S. businesses $100 billion. That figure could top $2.1 trillion worldwide by 2019. Consider these eight…

consumers suffered that decision. The Target Corporation failed to be good stewards over the consumer's trust, and causing the consumer's sensitive information to be compromised. In hindsight, had the security systems been the top priority the data breach may have been avoided. The fact that the CEO shunned the decision to have the improvements made, caused the consumers to suffer the devastation of having their sensitive information stolen, thereby generating an ethical calamity for Target…

An example of an outreach effort that I conducted to an unreached group at the University of Maine was one focused on Greek Life students. When arriving at UMaine it came to my attention that the IV chapter there had been trying to reach the Greek students on campus but hadnt been very sucessful. This is a group of students who I have a special heart for and knew that the mutual nenifitial relationship they could have with the IV chapter. I first had a conversation with the IV staff Jon…

fail to have a response plan in the case of a security breach, and 22% have no idea where to start to establish a plan. Work with your team to encrypt sensitive data and install updates when available. Also, invest in cyber insurance to help cover costs of recovery. 2. Assuming You're Protected Research firm Ponemon Institute found that 66% of small businesses admit to having absolutely no concerns about data breaches, and 47% think a breach would not harm their company in any way. Don't…

concerned, breach of the peace is perhaps the most broadly defined and frequently used” . The courts still refer to Hume’s definition in which he: “considered a breach of the peace to be less than mobbing and rioting but tending to disturb and alarm the neighbourhood.” However, as it is a common-law crime the definition has developed through case law. The main issue in the present case and the one that will be raised to determine whether Gordon Setter has committed a charge of breach of the…

There was not only a technological breach that must be addressed with Apply Yourself, but also an ethical breach by the students who bypassed private systems to access information about their MBA applications at various schools. There should an investigation into possible legal action that can be taken by Apply Yourself and the educational institutes in order to punish the hacker “brookbond” with applicable crimes. Although it is apparent that brookbond hacked this information to enlighten…