Essays on Information Gathering

Implementing Cost Cutting in the Oil Industry

Abstract In the modern day, organizations across different industries across the globe are implementing new strategies focused towards enhancing the profitability. Cost cutting is one of the major strategies adopted by companies to enhance their profitability. In the oil and gas industry companies have been pursuing different cost cutting strategies aimed at enhancing their profitability an issue that has been of primary concern. Various strategies have been proposed towards enhancing cost cutting strategies and these include automation that facilitate a throughout system, heightened regulatory measures compliance, technical support and solutions as well as maximizing modularity and replicability. These are ...

Part 1

Information gathering is a significant part of the hacking process given that it presents the hacker with the crucial information and knowledge about the target organization. Foot printing and port scanning are some of the initial stages and processes of hacking. Foot printing entails all the processes of information gathering about the target organization (Lyon, 2009). Hackers use different methods and source of information to collect crucial information about the target organization. Some of the sources of information include; the target organization’s website, company directories, Google hacking, alternative websites, social engineering and USENETS. The information gathered through foot ...

Part A

Foot printing is very important in the process of information gathering for hackers given that is present them with the vital information about the target. Hacking is a complicated process that requires massive information gathering and understanding before an attack can be successful. As a consequence, foot printing is considered a significant part of the hacking process (Boyd, 2000). There are several ways through which hacker gain access to massive information about the target at the foot printing stage. The greatest source of information at the foot printing stage include: the target organization’s website, company directory, job boards, ...

Introduction

The introductory section of the paper clearly presents what the author was trying to convey. The author posited that oversights in nursing care can produce negative impacts. There was not enough research to show the factors why nursing care was omitted. The absence of appropriate and adequate literary support on the subject, the problem statement was ambiguous. There were no methods stated in the initial paragraph. Rather, the methods were mentioned in the other section of the paper. There was also no mentioning of the research tradition utilized; hence, no assumptions can be rendered concerning the research problem. Two ...

Interview Plan

Assignment # 2 Introduction The Wilson Brothers Limited (an international company of manufacturing prepared food) advertised its job vacancy for Administrative Assistant with the Major purpose of developing reports and collecting information to provide support to the unit staff and Divisional Manager. The company published or posted its job ad on LinkedIn and the leading professional social media platforms and received job applications on email address. The ad was posted to receive applications from the external candidates. Now, the report is going to provide the interview plan for the job applicants, selection methods using selection requirement and criteria and hiring ...

Reflection

Reflection

Article 1: “Considerations for Special Education Assessment Systems."

Special education involves students with some physical or mental complication that requires special attention from their teachers. Such students are given specific attention as compared to normal students because their conditions affect their understanding and performance in general.

Information Gathering

The article “Considerations for special education assessment systems” was published by the National Center of Educational Outcomes 2014. The article was presented as a clear assessment of student inventory for school districts by the school district leaders whereby they sought to deal with the concerns about the magnitude of student testing, which is conducted through the assessment inventory process. The ...

The series of economic issue is aimed at making the availability of a broad readership of none- specialists that are produced by economic research on topical issues by the International Monetary Fund. The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional (Khan). They include cultural practices, climate, public policy, gender, and markets for the products. Additionally, poverty in rural areas is diverse concerning the problems they face and the possible remedies to the above problems. Therefore, this paper will discuss the causes of rural poverty, factors that are accounting to its persistence, economic policies for poverty reduction in developing ...

Activity Summary

Projects initiation was the first activity that we engaged in. It was undertaken after a SWOT analysis of the hotel identified that the POS project was the most valuable and most favorable at that time. The next activities that followed were project scope documentation, project approval and signing off. These activities involved definition of goals and assigning of tasks. They also involved the dividing the project into baselines (technical, functional and management and cost baselines). Project plan execution involved a number of activities that included the following: getting bids from suppliers, auction, procurement closure, enterprise information infrastructure design, training of implementers, ...

Information Gathering and Data Eliciting

Information Gathering and Data Eliciting

The interviewing team should take time to prepare the interview questions, determine the skills required for the project and forecast any concerns that may arise from other parties during the process. The team should also acquaint themselves with background information on the interviewees.

Step Two: Outlining objectives

The objectives of the interview should be well highlighted before the actual process; this is essential in ensuring that the right skills are selected for the project. In addition, the team should also identify the professional objectives of each interviewee and aim to highlight how the project will help achieve these ...

The evolution of mobile radio communication and the corresponding growth of the internet in terms of the applications that require high speed internet continuously places high demands on high speed data services over mobile cellular networks. Mobile broadband communication services emerged as a solution to this requirement for high bandwidth providing high bit rate internet access and have also evolved alongside mobile communications technology. With the 3G mobile networks delivering fairly high data rates but not as much as landline broadband technology, the 3GPP consortium released the recommendations for a new technology to cater for the limitations of wireless mobile networks. ...

Introduction

It is important to take the patient history. Nurses should take this history during assessment. When this is done, the patient’s problems are easily captured for the purpose of treatment. This has been made by nurses routinely. Roles of nurses are expanding with the new technology. They take information from patients, type it and make changes where necessary. Information from patients is private and confidential. Taking information from patients requires a practitioner or a specialist, nurse. In addition, taking the history is a fraction of assessment made to the patient. There is a need to use other information gathering techniques. Assessment covers ...

Stability and Innovation

Organizational stability is regarded as the ability of an organization to remain firm and consistent in its efforts to achieve its long term organizational goals and objectives. Moreover, with respect to chapter 9, organizational stability also involves the aspect of providing goods and services to the potential customers in a consistent manner despite the changing legal, economic and competitive dimensions of the global marketplace (Kreps, 2011, ch. 9, p. 199). On the other hand, organizational innovation pertains to an organization’s ability to match the changing tastes, preferences, needs and wants of the customers with the help of adaptation ...

Objective: The objective of this research was to conduct an epidemiological study for the cases of miscarriages at the Emergency Department of the University Malaya Medical Center, as well as suggest ways to improve the efficiency of providing emergency responses to miscarriage cases presented at the medical institutions’ emergency department. Study Design: This study analyzed the information on the cases resented at the Emergency Department of the University Malaya Medical Center related to gynae problems, particularly those of the miscarriages cases. The time frame for the gathering of data was 8 months from October 2013 to May 2014. ...

Internet security is an important factor that needs to be put into consideration in protecting company information from malicious threats and software. Most computer software threats and malicious programs come from the internet includes information gathering where an organizations network can be discovered profiled the same way other systems have been profiled. After the ports have been identified, a banner will be used in grabbing and enumerating to detect the types of devices hence determine the operating system and application versions. Sniffing is another threat and it involves acts of monitoring network traffic for data that include plaintext passwords ...

Analysis of the Organizational Behavior of Cox Enterprises, Inc.

Analysis of the Organizational Behavior of Cox Enterprises, Inc.

Introduction

Cox Enterprises, Inc. remains a family-owned four-division business for nearly 120 years. In the 21st century, Cox is a facilities-based provider of video, voice, and data solutions for its commercial customers while exhibiting strong ethical organizational behavior. Cox Media is a full-service provider of national and local cable spot and new media advertising. Cox's global locations include locations in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom (Bloomberg, 2013). This academic exploration of this successful ...

Testing web penetration aspect with Kali Linux

Introduction With security issues of the internet becoming a major point of concern for many organizations, there is a need to have testing of the internet to check if there is sufficient security. This is equivalent to auditing the penetration of the organization. Penetration testing is a process where the vulnerabilities that have been identified are real threats or false. One of the methods that an assessment can make use is that of scanning tools which can show the vulnerabilities that exist in a given system. The penetration test would be conducted by trying to hack the given vulnerabilities just the way a ...

8. Which of the following theories of privacy supports the right of a person to be free from interference in his/her private space? a) The skeptical view of privacy b) The communitarian view of privacy c) The control theory of privacy. d) The restricted access theory of privacy. Pg24 9. Which of the following theories support the idea that privacy is an intrinsic human value? a) The control theory of privacy. b) The restricted access theory of privacy. c) Deontological view of privacy. Pg 33 d) Teleological view of privacy 10. Which of the ...

As the head of North Korean intelligence apparatus, I am about to broadcast a 15 days nationwide action plan, designed precluding economic folding, to assess how the US will respond to the 15-day exercise. The action encompasses six areas of intelligence discipline, which are OSINT, GEOINT, MASINT, HUMINT, SIGNT and Cyber collection.

OSINT (Open Source Intelligence):

Publicly assessable information will be searched and analyzed to assess US response and actions taken. OSIT has been a popular source by the intelligence community. Owing to, globally, newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and additional middling will be scrutinized. In addition, cyber espionages will also be assessed. Teams will be ...

Networks provide access or entry points to organizational systems and applications. It is emphatically crucial that gatekeepers be installed to help in controlling unauthorized access to several servers within the networked environment. While operating system's gatekeepers within servers provide a good source of protection to servers, it's important that servers are protected from other external attacks. Reconfiguration and replacement of gatekeepers by imposters should also be protected. Computer networks act as important channels for sharing resources, data, and other communication functions. To avoid cases of downtime, which affects critical business applications, it is important to implement network maintenance and data ...

Abstract:

The issue on privacy in the 21st century is a current dilemma for the public as everything can now be seen online and is on digital format. May it be simple personal profiles to highly sensitive data such as grades, credit card information, and security clearances can be accessed online. While automation and digitalized data is now common to improve a person’s daily need for information, privacy becomes a serious topic to consider since anyone can get the information they need and for some, they would take steps mimic a person’s identity and steal sensitive data for fraud and crime. Recorded ...

Communication and decision making

Communication and decision making

Everyday we are all faced with a chance to make decisions that may have major or minor consequences. Making those decisions come with their challenges and dilemmas that determine success or failure. This paper will discuss the issues faced in decision making, in the context of Martha’s scenario.

Kind of decisions to be made

In the prevailing scenario, Martha is faced with an opportunity to make decisions. Martha has to make a non-programmed decision, as opposed to programmed decision. Non-programmed decisions are decisions that are unique and have major consequences; that require information gathering, conscious thinking, and consideration of alternatives. On the ...

Business Research Proposal

Project Aim The aim of this project is to evaluate the effective leadership style used by a multinational company based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Objectives

- The objective of this research is to identify the leadership style of AGS Worldwide. - What leadership styles are there? - What are the advantage and disadvantages? - Does AGS have a policy guide for managers? - What leadership style is predominant? - What are the common leadership styles? - What are the factors that influence AGS to adopt the leadership style? - What are the principles behind ...

Abstract

This report will discuss the Central Intelligence Agency or collective known as CIA. It is important to consider the organization for assessment because it represents a significant role as a public organization that gathers intelligence that are crucial in ensuring the security of the entire United States against internal and external threats. CIA is the main arm of the federal government in intelligence gathering that are detrimental to policymakers. This paper will explore the role of the agency in creating foreign and national security policies. However, CIA is facing problems of inadequate analytical standards that resulted a major revamp in the organization ...

General Overview

As the world business becomes more competitive, companies are forced to adopt the new technologies that can help in improving the quality of their products. Competitive Intelligence is important in business as it provides very strategic ideas on how a company can improve its success. The company’s Competitive Intelligence gives it a very strategic vision that calls for the implementation of the changes in the business processes, the organizational and managerial systems, and the products (Bloom, 1997). For any positive change to be realized in a company, CI must be the requirement. The implementation of such changes calls for very effective ...