Essays on End-To-End

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 ...

You are required to simulate the behavior of a packet switching network inside the laboratory. The creation of a network will require using the packet and link editors; defining the collected statistics; and learning new Kernel procedures. Some other benefits that will be derived from the lab include learning the principles of model design; becoming familiar with the node and process models; learning how the node and process models function within a network model; carry out parametric studies of various statistics. The performance of a simple packet switching network is measured by the end-to-end delay experienced by traffic on ...

Use of Firewalls to prevent Intruders at Bibliofind

There are two types of firewalls that Bibliofind could have used. The two are hardware and software firewalls (Stewart 72). Software firewalls could have been used to protect individual computers that intruders’ means of attacking such as viruses and spyware. One such software firewall that Bibliofind could have used is the Cisco ProtectLink Endpoint, that is specifically for Microsoft Windows computer operating system. With such a firewall, a system administrator at Bibliofind could have monitored the traffic flow that was coming in and going out of the individual computer system so as to identify any suspicious behavior.This means that ...

Management

“On March 20, 2014, Mr. Arnold J. Galloway, Associate Program Director and Part Time Professor, Systems Engineering Leadership Program (SELP), Loyola Marymount University, gave a lecture on ‘Mission Systems Engineering’ (ME). Prof. Galloway holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and is a consultant in Space- and Ground-based Missile Defense Systems, and Systems Engineering Processes for Schafer Corporation, WestWind Engineering, Inc., Saalex Solutions, Inc., Ryan Associates, and TASC. As an expert in Mission Systems Engineering, Prof. Galloway said, that while systems engineering focused on product development, by addressing a customer’s requirement and expectations, mission systems engineering involved ...

Abstract

Increasingly complex international business environment calls attention for sustainable practices not only within internal landscape of the companies, but across various elements of its supply chain. Shared value and integrated supply chain take more and more space in strategic planning and long-term investment portfolio of large multinational corporations. Aircraft manufacturing is in the heart of these challenges. With that in mind, the document focuses on the analysis and evaluation of general challenges of Supply Chain optimization by looking at six elements of Boeing BBJ division supply chain: supply chain management and sustainability, strategic capacity management, global sourcing and procurement, ...

Optical character recognition involves the change of images of printed or typewritten text, either mechanically or electronically into machine-encoded text. This technique is used in data entry from data records on printed paper. The applications include invoices, receipts, passport documents, bank statements among other documents. Additionally, optical character recognition is used to digitize text that is in print, thereby allowing such text to be searched, electronically edited, displayed online and stored in a more compact manner. By turning print data into electronic data using optical character recognition, various other applications such as text-to-speech, machine translation, text mining and key data ...

Introduction. 5

Purpose of the report 5 Findings 6 Situational Analysis 6 Strategic and Marketing Opportunities. 9 Financial Opportunities.. 12 Operational Changes.. 12 Strategic Priorities.. 13

Communication Plan and Recommendations 14

Conclusion. 16

References 17

Executive Summary This paper is carried out for purpose to prepare a full strategy and situational analysis around a new product line created by David and Victoria Beckham for young soccer players called Beckham Sports Star Range. The research draws attention to the fact that in Australia demand for the sports industry products has been caused by changing consumer attitude towards sportswear and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle ...

Analysis of ERM Software

Microsoft Dynamics is an important tool to drive business performance, measure financial effectiveness, and therefore help make better decisions. They offer one set of solutions to fast growing medium-sized organizations, and other to established enterprise organizations. Their targeted clients are fast-growing medium businesses.

Cost

Its packages range from $8,000 to $250,000, with a user range of 5 to 750 or 92,000. It allow for usage in multi-site organizations, and even multi-national usage.

Compatibility with Current System and Work Flow Processes

It follows the .NET architecture and work on MS SQL Server database platform. It runs on Windows Server OS and is incompatible with SaaS.

Functionality

In the ...

INTRODUCTION

The protocols at the transport layer of the OSI reference model provides an end-to-end data delivery service for application processes to exchange messages over the Internet. Protocols operating in the Transport layer use the services of the Internet Protocol (IP) to deliver messages. Many protocols exist at his layer and one of the most important protocols at this layer is Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) for the delivery of data between the Application Layer and the Internet Layer. The shortcoming of IP to guarantee the delivery of datagrams is overcome by TCP by setting up a virtual circuit between the communicating ...

ABSTRACT

Virtual Private Networks have evolved overtime to become one of the business-driver for corporate communication. This is due to its ability to leverage ubiquity and low cost of internet access in addition to high performance and security. VPN extend the characteristics of WAN to small, medium and individual users. VPNs are logical private networks deployed over public network infrastructure such as the internet. The exploding nature of the internet has presented an opportunity to build VPN on its vast infrastructure. Just like the way Email and web-browsing have brought internet to where it is today, business networking on ...

Question 1: Operational Layout Change Analysis

There are various Service Process Layout (SPL) types that companies widely use, based on their core product and scale of operations. Such layouts include the following models: - Product layout – type of production, focused on repetitive manufacturing procedures, often seen in automobile production line, where resources have to be organized in sequence to eliminate time waste and increase visibility of the end-to-end process. - Fixed-position layout is the process set-up that allows lean operation in production of out-of-gauge products, such as ship manufacturing seen on shipyards or aircraft production. - Process layout is the production set-up ...

Competition is continuously increasing in all sectors and businesses across the world. Companies are generating new innovative ideas to attract and pull customers. Chef Service is the concept that gaining popularity and has good scope of growth. There are very few companies such as Big City Chefs that are provide customized chef service to the customers. This paper intends to discuss various aspects of marketing associated with Chef Service such as value proposition, market segment, revenue generation and competitive analysis.

Concept Explanation

Grand Chef is a newly formed company that wants to serve to specific requirements of customers related to customized dinner ...

Transport Level Security

- This level of security exists below the application layer. It mostly comprises of the secure socket layer and the transport layer security. - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) - According to Kizza (2009), the Secure socket layer is a cryptographic system applied in the Explorer and Netscape browsers. It is used to manage the security of message transmission in the Internet (Newman, 2009). - The SSL uses a public key that can be utilized by anyone and a private key only known by the recipient of the message (Newman, 2009). - It is designed to offer encrypted end-to-end ...

VLAN Segment design

The main focus for the creation of a sustainable VLAN implementation within a campus environment is to simplify network management and diagnosis with the aim of improving network performance.

Developing a VLAN Segmentation Model

One of the advantages of deploying VLANs is its ability to facilitate the Layer segmentation allowing for domain broadcasting. In this case all the VLAN members’ devices are under the same broadcast domain. In the case of a campus design, we might consider either an end-to-end VLAN or a local VLAN. Choosing a right model is critical in creating a solid framework that can promote business growth. It is worth noting that each model has ...

Packet switching refers to a digital networking communications method in which all the data transmitted is grouped into blocks called packets before it is sent. Packet switching applies to all transmitted regardless of its type, content or structure. The data is transmitted over a shared network and transverses through a network of switches, adapters, routers and other network nodes (OPTNET Technologies, 2010). Packets of data are transmitted individually to their destination using different routes. Once all the packets forming a message get to the destination they re-compile into the original message. Common protocols using the packet switching technologies include Wide Area Network (WAN) ...

The key aspect of e-business is its focus on digitization of business operations from a traditional narrow range perspective to a technological wide range perspective that proves significant to businesses that rely on the internet for their functioning and success. Fundamentally, e-business is a broader concept and it is concerned with using the internet and related technologies to integrate and redesign an organization’s internal activities, processes and external relations, and create new ways of working that are significantly different from, and very often far superior to, what was possible or conceivable some years back. Moreover, interest in e-business has been driven ...

The key aspect of e-business is its focus on digitization of business processes. The universal connectivity permitted by the growth of the internet and a standardized way of communicating across different computing platforms is shifting the balance of importance from the physical world to the digital world.

Fundamentally, e-business is a broader concept and it is concerned with using the internet and related technologies to integrate and redesign an organization’s internal activities, processes and external relations, and create new ways of working that are significantly different from, and very often far superior to, what was possible (or conceivable) in the ...