Cybersecurity.....'' U.S experience

What You Can Do Vulnerabilities in Cyberspace Our economic vitality and national security depend on a vast array of interdependent and critical networks, systems, services, and resources known as cyberspace. Cyberspace has transformed the ways  we communicate, travel, power our homes, run our economy, and obtain government services. But as we become more dependent on cyberspace, we face new risks. Adversaries are working day and night to use our dependence on cyberspace against us. Sophisticated cyber criminals and nation-states, among others, present risks to our economy and national security. Preparing the Nation for Cyber Threats DHS works to safeguard and secure cyberspace through programs such as the Stop.Think.Connect.™ Campaign, a national public...

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COMMON SKILLS OF AN ENTERPRENEUR

inShare2 ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILL AND CHARACTERISTICS You've heard it said that certain careers require certain attitudes to succeed in. Policemen must possess good physical fitness and courage in the face of danger. Graphic designers must be creative, original thinkers with an artistic mind. Entrepreneurs, too, share several common characteristics that those those who hope to achieve success in the field should strive to emulate. Today we explore seven crucial characteristics of the best entrepreneurs that anyone thinking about starting a business ought to consider. Perseverance In the business world, problems...

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WHAT THE COMPUTER CAN NOT DO

        WHAT THE COMPUTER CAN NOT DO.......'' Hubert Dreyfus has been a critic of artificial intelligence research since the 1960s. In a series of papers and books, including Alchemy and AI (1965), What Computers Can't Do (1972; 1979; 1992) and Mind over Machine (1986), he presented an assessment of AI's progress and a critique of the philosophical foundations of the field. Dreyfus' objections are discussed in most introductions to the philosophy of artificial intelligence, including Russell & Norvig (2003), the standard AI textbook, and in Fearn (2007), a survey of contemporary philosophy.[1] Dreyfus argued that human intelligence and expertise depend primarily on unconscious instincts rather than conscious symbolic manipulation, and that these unconscious...

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DEVELOPMENT INDICES AND INDICATORS

Development indicators and indices document.getElementById('lightbox').style.display = 'none'; DEVELOPMENT INDICES AND INDICATORS Introduction The concept that complexity can be succinctly summarized in a single statement, picture or measure is indeed an old one. The world is a complex place and human beings have always sought ways of interpreting what they sense around them so as to help deal with that complexity. Given the pressing need to help address human suffering and poverty wherever it is found the appeal of ways to present this complexity in ways that help an intervention is thus highly understandable. Development indicators and indices (index: an aggregation of indicators into a single representation) seek...

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EUROZONE SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS

European sovereign-debt crisis EURO-ZONE ECONOMIC CHALLENGE Long-term interest rates of all eurozone countries except Estonia (secondary market yields of government bonds with maturities of close to ten years)[1] A yield of 6% or more indicates that financial markets have serious doubts about credit-worthiness.[2] The European sovereign debt crisis (referred to by analysts and investment banking professionals as The ESDC) is an ongoing financial crisis that has made it difficult or impossible for some countries in the euro area to re-finance their government debt without the assistance of third parties.[3] From late 2009, fears of a sovereign debt crisis developed among investors as a result of the...

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