Essays on Baier

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Attending the course of Introduction to International Market, I believe that it helped me to improve my understanding and thoughts about the international business and its nature. My knowledge has significantly been increased about globalization with the help of this course. In reviewing my course, learning, readings and tutorial questions, I have found that Globalization around the world remained the major issue throughout the course to understand its role and impact on the international business. Although, the course discussed globalization in different perspectives such as its impacts, consequences, debates, etc, however, the issue of key drivers of globalization and ...

The life and personality of John Nash were portrayed in the movie “A Beautiful Mind” where actor Russell Crowe played the role of the actual brilliant mathematician (IMDb). Release in 2001, the film picks up on the character as a young adult in college and the symptoms of his mental illness are manifesting. The audience is given no other information on his background, but it quickly become apparent that Nash is displaying symptoms of social isolation, erratic patterns of speech, inappropriate belief systems, and realistic hallucinations that incorporate visual and audio delusions. The signs presented by Nash align with ...

Human beings are social creatures, and they usually co-exist in a dependence manner within a community. The individual ability to depend on community members can have a positive or a negative impact. Relying on community members has far reaching effects in that, one has to trust the community members with a high degree of confidence and in most cases subscribe to their ideologies. In some instances, some of the ideologies are for ill motives or rather they are misguided by traditional myths. Some ideologies are also enshrined under radical religious misconceptions. On the contrary, some of the ideologies are ...

In the past, individuals demonstrating the symptoms of schizophrenia were thought to be possessed by demons. Banishment, imprisonment, and torture were the only forms of treatment available. Fear of the perceived possession dictated responses to the behavior. The inappropriate ideas, hallucinations, and strange behavior remains as difficult to understand today as it was in medieval times. The medical profession struggles to address the presence of schizophrenia in society. McGrath, Saha, Chant, and Welham (2008) state the psychopathology affects 1% of the worldwide population and incurs substantial costs to families, society, and the patient. In addition, evidence points to a ...

Kenya is located in Eastern Africa and is considered as the economic hub of the region. One of the most distinctive aspects of the nation is that it has a market-based economy that is accompanied by a very liberalized foreign trade policy. Kenya gained independence from the British in 1963 and since that time, the nation has experienced inconsistent economic growth (Bradshaw, 1988). In fact, during the early years after independence, the rate of economic growth for the nation was very high (6%).However, this rate decreased to about 4% for the following decades. Things particularly got bad for the country ...

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Criminal activities using digital based information call for standard and structured approach of dealing with the victims. Since the vast amount of information is documented in digital form, the evidence required for the prosecution of criminals is also in the same form (Yusoff, Ismail & Hassan, 2011). In computer forensics, various hardware and software tools are used to help in the process of investigation. The data collected from the crime sight require special software for their acquisition and analysis. The proper crime sight reconstruction is attained from the source if it has to be accepted in a court of law (Hassan, ...

Information or system access control is almost a necessity in every organization that seeks to perform and achieve productivity. Authentication is the most commonly used mechanism in bid to achieve confidentiality, privacy and solely authorized access to information and the systems at large (Baier, 2010). The response given to the issue of authentication administrative practices is true but not exhaustive. By making reference to the provisions in NIST that recognizes the devices, applications and the user as the main players in the process of authentication is a clear indication of reliability in the answer. Sufficiency in the outcome of ...

Information or system access control is almost a necessity in every organization that seeks to perform and achieve productivity. Authentication is the most commonly used mechanism in bid to achieve confidentiality, privacy and solely authorized access to information and the systems at large (Baier, 2010). The response given to the issue of authentication administrative practices is true but not exhaustive. The Anderson proposal of a two-channel authentication given is one but not the only measure that can be employed (Baier, 2010). Two-way authentication is where the user reveals his/her identity to the system before being allowed to access it, and ...

Accessing someone else’s confidential information without the owner’s permission is a serious crime that makes people and companies lose a lot of money, property, and respect. Different people have different perspectives this issue of hacking. The decisions depend on how a person understands the term, and the nature of threats available. Although, cyber terrorism is an issue of national security, some governments still cordon it with claims that it is a silent mode of crime and in most cases; the offenders end up unnoticed therefore; use it as a weapon to fight other organizations. Mitigation is the process whereby an individual, organization, ...

Hacker Motivation and Threat Mitigation Research

Hacker Motivation and Threat Mitigation

The modern world has provided the society with wide variety of convenience in every way possible. Everything was run in full automation scale. Because of the fact technological evolution allowed people to manage the majority of their living situations through computer there are also individuals who are using the same technology in committing crimes. The question here is what motivates a hacker to be engaged in such activity? One reason is to gain sensitive information, information is the dominating elements that can be obtained over the internet and by stealing them, and hacker gains a lot ...