Essays on Recovery

IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) describes that Utah Prairie Dog is a species of rodent that inhabits the grassland in the southern part of Utah in the United States. This species inhabit grassland areas and feed on grasses and forbs (USFWS 5) that are readily available in their habitat. Social structure of this species is called a clan consisting of an adult male, several females and their young (USFWS 5).
Historically, the habitat of Utah Prairie Dogs were reportedly extended from Pine and Buckskin valleys in Beaver and Iron counties, north to Salina Canyon and near Gunnison ...

Disaster and emergency management have increasingly become challenging in different countries due to increasing complexity, frequency and magnitude of disasters. There are four stages involved in the management of a disaster. These include the mitigations stage prior to the occurrence of the disaster, where various mitigating activities and actions are put in place. Disaster preparedness is the second phase of disaster management, which involves education, outreach programs and trainings to the local communities in planning for disaster. The response phase is the phase after the occurrence of the disaster and involves a response from various involved stakeholders. The final ...

The composition of the disaster recovery team

For any work to run efficiently and effectively, it requires a team to understand this mandate. The disaster recovery team includes the following 8 teams; the senior management, corporate support units, Facilities, Fire and safety Maintenance staff, IT technical staff (specifically including database, systems, and networking, IT managers, InfoSec technicians, InfoSec managers. However, “there are sub-topics within the data recovery team responsible for separate sequences of activity” (Whitman and, 2007). The responsibilities and roles of the disaster recovery teams are discussed as follows.
The damage assessment team is a team, led by the technical coordinator who is responsible of ...

Communication challenge

Disaster management is one of the critical issues in society. It is worth noting that disasters are inevitable regardless of how much we try to avoid. Disasters management is one of the disciplines that deal with avoiding manmade and natural disasters. It entails the aspect of preparedness, recovery as well as response, which is meant to come to terms with disasters. In most cases, disasters put to test the emergency response ability and the recovery process. The ability to recover and deal effectively with disaster after it has occurred tends to improve due to the increase in the risk ...

Usually, when people suffer from stroke, they are taken through a comprehensive process of recovery. The process is a complicated and detailed one and is intended to help patient’s recovery sensory mishaps that resulted from the strokes. Additionally, the process helps them to recovery aspects such as memory and general genitive performance. According to research, the process needs to be followed religiously through continuous practice. When this process is interrupted in any way, then the victims of stroke might be hindered from full recovery. What many families and friends of the victims often fail to recognize is that ...

INTRODUCTION

Information systems are vital documents in many organizations. Because information system resources are so essential to the operation of an organization and its success, it is crucial that major services provided by these systems operate optimally without excessive interruption. Contingency planning support these necessities by providing the required plans, procedures, and technical parameters that will allow a system to operate and recover quickly and effectively as possible from a disruption.
Contingency planning is unique to each and every system, detailing the preventive measures, recovery strategies, and technical aspects appropriate to the systems information CIA requirements.
Thus an information system ...

Question 1: Recovery strategy for hardware/software

The company, having realized their dependence on computer systems will have to put aside a plan they will follow if the system undergoes a disaster. Many systems that are available in the company include local area network (LAN), database servers, Internet and intranet, and e-mail. The potential loss will be enormous and there should be a contingency plan in place to ensure that normalcy is attained in the shortest time possible (Smith, & Salvendy, 2007).

i. Microsoft Access Database system

ii. ADP payroll processing software

iii. AutoCAD Lite ...

AT&T Overview

AT& T corporation is a leading company in providing telecommunication services. It has been a successful company over the years with annual revenues being in excess of $74 billion. According to Tung (2001), AT& T offers services worldwide. These services include wireless services, long distance services and local telephone services, home entertainment, online services, local telephone and highly sophisticated communication networks. AT&T operations, alliances, and joint ventures offers employment to more than 100,000 people worldwide (Tung, 2001). AT&T currently provides the largest 4G network coverage in the world. Further, the company’s Wi-Fi network is the largest in ...

Businesses use information technology to quickly and effectively process information. Employees use electronic mail and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone systems to communicate. Electronic data interchange (EDI) is used to transmit data including orders and payments from one company to another. Servers process information and store large amounts of data. Desktop computers, laptops and wireless devices are used by employees to create, process, manage and communicate information. What do you when your information technology stops working?
An information technology disaster recovery plan (IT DRP) should be developed in conjunction with the business continuity plan. Priorities and recovery time ...

Introduction

Other means of dealing with security threats and incident response existed long before the introduction of computer technology. People used to respond to unexpected incidents that were capable of affecting organizations or a nation at large. Irrespective of the nature of the event, it is always advisable to prepare and respond to an incident that has a negative effect to people. The use of disaster recovery and incident response technologies assists organizations in preparing for unexpected events. Most organizations fail in preparing for incident respond and disaster recovery while conducting their daily businesses. These organizations are not well prepared ...

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Abstract
Cybercrime marks one of the swiftly increasing crimes on the globe, with more people using the computers to fake identity and loot other people. With the crime on the rise, methods of controlling and minimizing the crimes deem necessary in all sectors. However, in the health sector, some methods can apply to the best and combat the cybercrime completely. The paper explores the best business planning and disaster recovery practices that can be applied in the healthcare sector to address cybercrimes.
A digital world is characterized with the adoption of new strategies for executing various activities. However, hackers ...

Patients with Post-Stroke Hemiparetic Upper Limb

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The US and Europe are both experiencing the coming of age of an elderly population which is prone to strokes and will need health care focused on post-stroke therapies. The most promising therapies are robot-assisted motion exercises coupled with Non-invasive Brain Simulations (NBS) such as Transcranial Magnetic Simulation (TMS). At this time the most attractive combination for both effective and affordable therapy is the use of simply designed, easily manipulated robot systems coupled with TMS. Since 2003 the area of neurorehabilitation has been growing with many effective and exciting designs in robotics. It hasn’t been very long ...

Physical Security can be described as “the measures taken to protect systems, buildings, and the related supporting infrastructure against threats that are associated with the physical environment” (Krutz & Vines, 2004). Over the past few decades, the significance, magnitude and consequence of security and risk management have been brought before the world over and again in a number of conditions related to health, terrorist activities, and natural disasters.
When one turns the pages of history, it is rather obvious that a lack of planning and absence of resources due to unpreparedness makes it difficult for the concerned authorities to manage ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

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California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. The most vulnerable workers, ...

Business Continuity Plan

Introduction
Unpredictability relating to disasters in the business and information technology world may result to losses. A business continuity plan seeks to help the organization resume its normal operation within the shortest time possible after a disaster or after a network or data intrusion attack. Whitman and Mattord (2012) note, “a business continuity plan ensures the continuation of an organization when the scale of a disaster exceeds the ability of the disaster recovery plan to restore operations” (p. 148).
Policies need to be defined on the best approach to handle such a network attack or intrusion. Important issues that ...

Abstract

This paper discusses contingency planning for an organization's IT resources. In particular, it discusses the six contingency planning steps; the recovery options for IT resources; the recommended testing requirements; and a recommendation for a proposed 24-month cycle business contingency test plan. The paper concludes that a contingency plan should cover all of an organization’s resources and that the contingency plan for its IT resources should complement and support those of the other resources.

Introduction 4

Contingency Planning Steps 4
Identification of Mission- or Business-critical Functions 5
Identification of the Resources that Support the Critical Functions 5
Anticipation of the Potential ...

THEORY, EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

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Link between Default an. The d Recovery Rates

The article gives a detailed analysis and measurement of the relationships that exists between the rates of recovery as well as the aggregate default. It also seeks to show the empirical relationship that exists between them. The article gives a review of how models of credit risk would implicitly or explicitly work with the given recovery rate variable. The article also focuses on the rate of recovery of corporate bonds that were defaulted in the period between 1982 and 2002. Additionally, the article attempts to give an explanation of ...

Briefing Memorandum

1.0 Introduction
Data recovery plan is extremely influential in any business environment because it ensures the continuity of the business during or after any attack to the information system. There are various technology solutions that can be used to ensure data integrity, confidentiality and availability of information within the information system. This presentation limits the discussion on cloud computing, data back-up solutions and General disaster recovery/business continuity plan Services such as provision of access controls. The presentation takes the following summary order.
2.0 Cloud-based back-up solution
Cloud based backup technology solution is most appropriate for ensuring business continuity. This ...

Peplau provided arguably the most revolutionary and most effective working formula for nurses all over the world known as Peplau’s nursing formula. This nursing theory completely changed the way nurses view their nursing duties as well as the patients they tend to on a near daily basis. In the period between 1943 and 1945, Peplau served as a nurse in the army corps being assigned to the 312th field station hospital in England. Here, she made acquaintance and worked with some of the key leading figures in American psychiatry as well as British psychiatry. After the war, she ...

Business Impact Analysis

Business impact analysis is the main driver in the implementation of a contingency plan. Conducting a business impact analysis is fundamental in CP controls according to NIST SP 800-53. It enables the information resources contingency plan coordinator to evaluate and characterize the system components, supported mission processes and their interdependencies. BIA seeks to develop a correlation between the system critical business processes and the services offered and based on that information evaluate the consequences of the disruption. A successful BIA informs the ISCP coordinator of the contingency planning requirements and priorities. BIA is carried out at the initiation phase ...

Disaster management is perhaps one of the disciplines that has gained much acceptance in the contemporary world. With the rate at which both natural and human-initiated disasters are occurring, it is no puzzle why this discipline is rapidly gaining popularity in institutions of higher learning (Jones, 2011). Fundamentally, disaster management is concerned with the monitoring and directing of resources, including human resources, in handling all charitable aspects of unforeseen disturbances. It is a multiphase cycle that involves preparedness, responding, and mitigation in relation to emergencies. Disasters are nonroutine occurrences, which in most cases are difficult to predict and call for extraordinary effort in handling. Such occurrences may destabilize an organization or an institution through the destruction of its physical and fixed assets and resources. ...

Literature Review

An appraisal is a document that gives explanation about something or someone and aims at giving the value of quality of that particular thing or person. In this essay, the appraisal of the above- mentioned article would be outlined in details. However, before the highlight of this book is done, it would be fundamental to carry out a brief comparison with other related literatures. Here, the comparisons would be done between the article and at least four other articles. The first article to be looked into is the ‘Effects of surgery, general anaesthesia, and preoperative epidural analgesia on the ...

Is Cloud Computing a better Platform for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?"

The term ‘cloud computing’ has different meanings to different people. A unique trait of cloud computing is its valuable computing resources organized and stored in a central location for easy access by approved users (Gillam, 2010). Sharing of computing resources by intended users and the public requires experts to set appropriate measures to safeguard data. Cloud computing relies on secure data management to achieve its objectives. It is worth noting that cloud computing practices have enhanced business performance across industries. Despite its valuable to business entities, the process faces various challenges among them security threats, reliability, and consistency. This ...

The Importance of an Emergency Management Plan: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery

It may not come as a surprise to say that, as humans reach out in search of food and shelter, it is the environment around them that is being abused. As man’s needs grow, so too does the pressure on the environment grow, as a result of which, an ecological imbalance is created unconsciously. And once an ecological imbalance occurs, a series of events are triggered that culminates in large scale loss of life and property. There is no doubt the importance the environment has on life on this planet, but man himself, pressed for space, finds no ...

Services and Relationships

- In services marketing, a great deal of emphases is being placed on effective ‘service recovery.’ Critically discuss what consumers want from service recovery (SR) strategies.
Service Recovery expounded as the schedules or actions that are given as a reaction to clients by the service providers as a result of service failure. In other words, they are actions that are carried out to customers that were not satisfied with the services that were offered to them. Important to note is the fact that, service recovery is a well thought-out process that was aimed at satisfying aggrieved and dissatisfied clients ...

PANATLAS is a multinational company with over 5000 employees distributed across the headquarters and remote offices. The organization is involved in a significant US government project and thus need seamless connectivity across its branches, and the headquarters to enhance productivity. Due to the nature of the project, the company forbids any external access of its details outside the U S. As the Director of IT, I am tasked with the responsibility of recommending a secure and efficient network architecture solution to remote branches located in Denver, Michigan, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Colorado, and Missouri. The main areas of ...

Disasters are inevitable occurrences in day to day life in society. They occur in the form of cyber crimes and attacks such as watering hole attacks, SQL injection, spear phishing, brute force attacks and advanced persistent threats. Physical disasters such as fire breakouts, oil spillage, floods and other catastrophes are inevitable. It, therefore, calls for a disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery strategies.
A recent disaster at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in East Africa’s country’s commercial hub Nairobi Kenya is a case in point.
Kenya’s main airport arrival terminal was razed down following a ...

Introduction

It is known that our country has faced many catastrophic events that Americans had to challenge during the centuries. And the number of such catastrophes as tornados, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and hurricanes has doubled during the last decade. These disasters can be predicted with the help of modern technologies and special radars, although the outcomes for people, cities and nature are unknown until the catastrophe occurs. This inability to be absolutely ready and well-prepared, as well as the general defenselessness of social masses and local specialists for the possible damages and their aftermaths is the main reason for creation ...

Introduction

Information security is important for the thriving of any organization. In organizations that wholly depend on information systems, security becomes a very important aspect. Issues such as data privacy for their customers are essential as it ensures they can be able to deliver services to their clients. In cases where incidents of malware attacks or network intrusion occur, the organization needs to be prepared to handle the incident. Thus, this may involve the developing of an incident response team, a disaster recovery plan and business recovery planning to ensure that revenue losses are not experienced.

Incident Response Team

The incident response team ...

I have been hired as a new manager of the newly created Office of Continuity Planning of the Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council in the United States charged with the responsibility of laying down the minimum standards and principles as well as report forms for the examination of financial institutions by the Federal Reserve system of the United States among other agencies. The council is an interagency body created by statute which has the onus of recommending and promoting uniformity in the supervision of these institutions. This organization or body faces a number of significant risks to its operations. ...

Early psychosis intervention program is a community-based assessment program that is designed especially for outpatients that are experiencing first episodes of psychosis. It is however important to note here that there are a myriad of other conditions that might manifest themselves in similar manners as psychosis and correct and incomparable determination of psychotic cases is crucial. Immense research work has shown that early diagnosis and intervention on psychosis has had positive outlook in that the condition becomes relatively easy to contain unlike in late diagnosis where other complications might have arisen for example intense schizophrenia among others. It is ...

The Broader Context of Disaster Recovery

The Broader Context of Disaster Recovery

Introduction

Recovering from a disaster is one of the greatest challenges for communities in many parts of the world. People perceive it as a struggle against the adverse forces of nature, often condemned for the occurrence of disasters and the destruction associated with their occurrence. The stages of disaster recovery are often two. The first one occurs prior to the happening of the disaster of the disaster and measures the level of preparedness in the community with respect to absorbing the shocks associated with the occurrence of the disaster. On the other, the second ...

Introduction:

This paper describes some of the areas of potential advancement towards quality improvement at Phoenix Children’s Hospitals and among its Medicine Centers. One significant improvement strategy is measurement. As Dickson and Tholl (2014) espouses, the attribute involves collection of clinical data to advance patient care and outcomes. By using measurement as a tool, clinical leaders can understand the direction and status of the services delivered as well as define the quality levels within the organization.

Areas of potential improvement:

The core areas of consideration are pediatric research and trauma diagnostics. Both of these aspects have a significant impact on the organization’s ...

Information security plan

Executive summary
Information security plan is meant to protect any resource that relates to information from multiple security threats so that the continuity is maintained. The security plan is meant to cover all the organization’s information technology assets against any possible threat. To achieve an effective information security mechanism, a suitable set of controlled crucial. The control includes processes, procedures, and policies organizational structure and software functions. The controls need to be formulated, implemented tracked reviewed and improved to make sure the particular security and business goals of the organization are attained.
The plan guides the confidentiality, privacy ...

Incident Response Policy

Incident Response Policy
Incident response team is the team responsible for dealing with the IT incidents and also managing its impact to the company. The company should assemble a proper team then identify roles and responsibilities of the team members. Incident response team should include, Incident response Team leader who is responsible for directing and organizing the incident response team. The foremost duty is to manage incident response processes, policies and procedure updates that will deal with the future incidents. This person should be well conversant with risk management and IT security.
Then Incident Lead who is responsible for ...

Business Continuity Plan

In a business continuity plan, inclusion of components of infrastructure in a business is critical. A business should include its organizational assets, resources, processes and systems in its business continuity plan (Haag & Cummings, 2013). IT and all the other systems and information are depended upon by the business in its daily operations. This has been occasioned by an increase in terrorist attacks ad natural disasters, in the world.

Business continuity planning

A business should employ its strategic plan in order to understand the relative importance of all its assets. The other step is the development of a ranking of the assets in ...

Incident management processes, business continuity and disaster recovery planning are the fundamental concepts required of any business entity. Incident management is a coordinated practice at the corporate level that is dependent on round the clock reporting line and quick assessment and escalation for severity. A sound and formal protocol and procedure should be adhered to in relation to incident resolution and recovery. This may include 24 hour incident response team and incident communication procedures. In addition, virtual meeting rooms may be designed to bring together all the required personnel with regular status update.
Business continuity planning is best practices ...

The theory proposed in this paper is based on motivation and addresses some of the concerns regarding stage-based theories such as the trans-theoretical theory of motivation. The various tenets of motivation that are attributed to change are propounded in the initial sections as described below. Motivation is a key to change. The incentive sensitization theory of addiction explains addiction from a motivational perspective with respect to mental processes. Arguably, a motivational change process would therefore be an ideal recovery mechanism. Due to the complexity and multidimensional nature of change involving human behavior, this theory calls for a multifaceted approach ...

What are common injuries in soccer?

Soccer injuries are generally classified into two categories – cumulative (overuse) and acute (traumatic) injuries. Acute injuries refer to those that occur due to a sudden impact or force on the muscle, joint or soft tissues (Benjamin & Scott 2005). However, cumulative injuries occur over time due to stress on the body joints, muscles and the soft tissues without sufficient time to heal. Some of the common soccer injuries include ankle sprains, Achilles tendonitis, concussion, hamstring pull, strain or tear and iliotibial band syndrome. Others include muscle cramps, blisters, delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS), sprains and strains, patellofemoral pain syndrome, plantar fasciitis, ...

Question 1

The terminology business cycle is used to denote the fluctuations in the economy in production or any other economic activities over a given period of time. These fluctuations occur around a long-term expansion trend and often involve changes over time between periods of high and vigorous growth and periods of relative stagnation (Tvede, 2006, p 7). The components of a business cycle include boom, recession and recovery. Boom refers to the economic period where businesses are experiencing large sales which results in high profit margins. During this period, the levels of employment are relatively high (Freiber, J. & ...