Essays on Cheney

In January 2009, Heartland Payment Systems announced that it had encountered a breach in its security system the previous year. The breach had compromised data of more than 130 million credit and debit cards transactions as the transaction data was being transmitted in an unencrypted form within its internal processing platform. The company was certified Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant and had implemented all the required controls, but could not avert the breach. This paper examines if compliance with standards is enough to ensure data security. The paper will suggest the approach to be taken ...

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Globalization and cultural

Contracting out has been a consistently debate. Whether the purpose of companies to outsource was to skirt around unions, maximize profits by taking advantage of the lower labor costs in another country, or just to exploit the technical expertise of expatriate contractors, the end result is that jobs are lost and others will gain owing to lower wages in that country. The animosity grows when one considers the distance and the ‘chasm’ of the wages in the country of the outsourcing company and those in the country of the contracting country (Pearlstein, 2012). However, though traditionally outsourcing gives ...

Healthy families, promote the wellbeing of their family members through the provision of emotional support and companionship, positive relationships with the family members, economic security, the psychological and physical health of the family members. Imbalances in the family dynamics lead to the family problems witnessed in the present day. Imbalanced family dynamics cause problems such a child development, addiction and violent tendencies; it also leads to personality disorders among children and adults (Dayton, 2016). Children draw from the synchrony and wellbeing of their parents, positive energy projected within a family gives rise to high immunity and mental health of ...

The federal government's Bureaucracy is made up of the following organizations; presidential commissions, cabinet departments, government corporations, independent regulatory agencies and independent executive agencies. It is large since it is made up of about 2.6 million employees in the United States. All these departments work together for one common good, which is administering the law. The executive branch of the government has more power than the judiciary and the legislative branches of the United States federal government. The executive branch comes up with programs which are then implemented through the chain in the executive branch. It is the responsibility ...

When dealing with a pediatric case, especially when it comes to dealing with adolescents. Given the fragile nature of their developmental stage, their treatment needs to be carefully planned. In a clinical situation where the patient is a young girl who is experiencing active suicide ideations. Accompanied by thoughts of hanging herself using a telephone knife. She says that she has imaginary friends whom she prefers talking to instead of her non-imaginary friends. Although she knows that they are not real she sometimes appears sad, has poor eye contact and demonstrates poor social skills. She also reported having feelings ...