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In the first month of this year, 2012, online shoe retailer Zappos' now a business unit of Amazon, experienced a security breach that was initiated from a distribution center located in Kentucky. The nature of the breach shows how vulnerable the retailer's systems are to employees who choose to break in and attempt successfully to gain access to customer records. It also showed how vulnerable the entire Amazon.com e-commerce system is attacks originating from internal servers. The hacker, an employee, gained access to over 24 million Amazon.com and Zappos' customer records. Despite having sophisticated 128-bit encryption on these systems, the hacker was able to bypass internal systems with knowledge of how the distribution center staff had constructed firewalls and password conventions. The last four digits of the customers' credit cards were taken, their names, addresses, complete customer histories and approval credit limits of they had obtained Amazon.com credit cards (Letzing, 2012). The security systems had not been upgraded since 2010 when Zappos had been purchased for $800 million by Amazon.com and made a core part of the overall company network (Hsieh, 2010). As Zappos' had superior technologies for logistics planning and execution, supply chain planning and execution, and the ability to orchestrate fulfillment with 3rd party logistics providers, Jeff Bezos made the decision to standardize on Zappos' technologies and websites (McDonald, 2011). Zappos' had also created a unique series of technologies that allowed for consumers to inspect entire series of items online and evaluate how they will look in them (Tsuruoka, 2012). Zappos' had also created an entire corporate culture predicated on delivering exceptionally positive, memorable experiences for anyone purchasing online from them, empowering customer service teams to do whatever it could within the boundaries of profitability and legality to exceed customers' expectations (Tsuruoka, 2012). The theft of 24 million records was even more surprising given how strong of a culture the company has, one known for promoting worker autonomy and giving them as much freedom as they need to do their jobs (Shine, 2012). The theft had been motivated by the potential to sell the names on the black market for tens of thousands of dollars, a temptation even the relatively well-paid employees of Amazxon.com could not pass up (Letzing, 2012). The breach was discovered within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team's audits were completed of transactions across all subsidiaries, including a reconciliation of accesses by role (Letzing, 2012). If Amazon was not able to track the access points and roles of associates looking at data online, chances are this breach would have not been fully found. Given the highly analytical nature of the Amazon.com culture within the AWS business unit, the discovery and reaction to the breach within hours highlights why e-commerce companies need to consider partnering with cloud platform providers for the long-term (Tsuruoka, 2012). If Zappos' had been in the position of hosting their own website and relying on their own infrastructure, the breach may potentially have never found to the extent to which it happened (Letzing, 2012).

Health profession and nurse in the United States need to be able to meet the health and pharmaceutical care demands of a fast growing racial and multi-ethnic populace. One tactic is to develop and implement or expand existing resources and didactic courses to address cultural competence in the curricula of every nursing college and school. Because of the growing problem with nurses not understanding the ways of Native Americans and the burn out that they are encountering when dealing with this group, it is safe to say that cultural sensitivity needs to be looked at more in depth.

¶ … Tear down that wall," has been the one sentence legacy of Ronald Reagan's presidential administration (Boyd). Ask any conservative political pundit and you are likely to hear that Reagan's defense strategy and, in…

History of the group or groups derived from, including chronology of current series of events. The Weather Underground Terrorist Group, known colloquially as the "Weathermen" and later "Weather Underground Organization"…

James Madison: A Commitment to the Separation of Church and State

Native Americans vs. American Settlers' Rights

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¶ … intelligence best support the shaping of the information environment to decrease Taliban influence in Afghanistan?

This order is a review of what the Security Sub-Committe should do in the given case study. Essentially, there is a major political convention which is taking place, and the Security team must decide on what precautions to take in order to ensure public safety. There was talk of bringing in an LRAD, but the danger of permanent injury could become a violation of citizen's Fourth Amendment rights. Moreover, there are two protests trying to get permits. The Amnesty International protest should be permitted because of its position inside the First Amendment Zone, whereas the Greenpeace protest should not because it is in a much more complicated area, which would make it more difficult for law enforcement to keep the public safe from harm.

Internet abuse is a an issues which has been getting more and more attention in mainstream society and with academic research. While more research needs to be conducted about the nuances of Internet abuse and how they manifest within college campuses and university communities, many universities are reluctant to do this. This paper explores a case study which looks into this exact issue and seeks to determine the various reasons and factors which impact the playing field of Internet use and abuse within this specific setting.