Essays on Barlas

Homeopathic treatment for Insomnia (sleeplessness)

Homeopathy is considered as an alternative medicine practice compared to modern (allopathy) practice. The concept of homeopathy relates to pseudoscience wherein the treatment of an illness is not part of a scientific rationale but the normal recovery of the person. Homeopathy was first introduced by Samuel Hahnemann in 1796 and has been used since then as an alternative treatment for many acute and chronic illnesses. Some researchers suggest that homeopathic medications or agents act like placebo in terms of modern medicine, wherein the recovery or cure of the illness is not due to the medication itself but part of ...

Sonbol’s “Women in Shari’ah Courts: A Historical and Methodological Discussion” look at the Shari’ah courts and qadis before modern legal transformation. In addition, the article looks at the laws and the Islamic legal system that govern the role and lives of women. Many critics of the Shari’ah’s customs justify the laws relating to women with the teachings of the Qu’ran. Sonbol attempts to show the system before the culture transformed to the modern days and ways of reasoning. Even though the standard of the society dictated the importance of women, and the qadis ...

The overall strategy and role for the Chief Information Officer is to avail relevant information and platforms to aid in the development of cyber-security strategies and measures. The CIO does this by selecting the software policy to be followed, the backup RAID levels, databases security and the remote access policy among other aspects that influence the presence or the absence of information relevant to the Cyber Security Command (CSC) branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The CIO’s strategy could also entail coordinating and liaising the activities of other related officers such as the Chief Information Security ...

This paper presents a discussion on the goals of the federal government officials as well as the rationale for decisions in the prior round. The principal goal of the federal government department in charge of cybersecurity is to provide a secure cyberspace in order to protect citizens, investors and government agencies against attacks and disasters (Barlas, 2004; Carswell, 2012; Norquist, 2004). When the cyber space is insecure, people become nervous and this could destabilize the economy (Carswell, 2012).

The following officials have the following roles:-

Chief Information Officer (CIO) The CIO is tasked with coordinating and making decisions regarding 1) Authorized Software Policy, 2) Backup RAID Levels, ...

Report on Capstone Simulation Round 1

- Authorized Software Policy

Type of software permitted for use by employees: Approved software

Software evaluation frequency in months: 6 Violation penalties: Focus on warnings - Backup RAID levels: 0

Remote backup spending: $ 250,000

- Database Security Frequency of forcing password changes in days: 15Degree of separation of roles for admin and operator roles: CompleteControl privileges: RestrictedOS services and associated ports: EnableDatabase honeypots: Enable - Remote Access Policy - Systems Development Testing

Intensity of quality assurance testing: HighDegree of reliance on external vendor: Comprehensive testing

- Training

Training by funding: $50,000

- Training and Auditing Frequency of physical audits of the equipment: Every six monthsFocus on training area: network vulnerabilities 25%Focus on training area: controls 25%Focus on training area: encryption 25%Focus ...