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VSE 8.8 Patch 4 - coming soon...wwarren Sep 5, 2013 3:32 PM
Hi Everyone,
We'll be releasing Patch 4 soon; by "soon" I mean our managed release will begin this month, and that means the general availability release - when you'll be able to download it - will be next month.
There are some items to be aware of with Patch 4 that I wanted to begin soaking "early" into the field's mindset...
i. Patch 4 will not install on top of the original "release to world" version of VSE 8.8
In other words, if you haven't patched the installation then you won't be able to patch it with Patch 4. Those using the unpatched 8.8 release may have to apply a patch (e.g. Patch 1) and then Patch 4, or, uninstall and reinstall the repost version that includes Patch 4.
ii. The full install package (when we repost the installation files so that they include Patch 4) will include the 5600 Engine.
iii. Patch 4 includes previous hotfixes that have been released, i.e. those that exist post Patch 2 (Patch 3 didn't have any hotfixes).
iv. Patch 4 addresses a number of business impacting issues. It'll be rated "High Priority" at least. These issue are varied, including BSODs, McShield crashes, resource leaks from unexpected scenarios, and system instability (tied to the McShield crashes actually).
Wherever business continuity is a concern, you'll want to install Patch 4.
v. Something not Patch 4 related but it's worth mentioning since Patch 4 contributes to the "problem"...
Environments that install VirusScan and then Patch VirusScan, and/or add Hotfixes to VirusScan, and who DO NOT REBOOT afterwards, are at a growing risk of encountering a BSOD from Stack Exhaustion. It's not our fault, not exactly - we simply didn't expect environments would make 3 or 5 upgrades to our kernel components and NEVER reboot. We allow for it to happen, so that's our fault. And it's technically feasible to do it - a feat not many vendors can claim, that we can update kernel level code without having to force an immediate reboot. However, the OS can only handle doing this so many times before a code execution path exhausts the the Stack of a thread. Therefore I implore you, after patching or hotfixing our kernel drivers, please plan a maintenance window to reboot the box. A reboot is not required, but if you do not, and you install 'x' number of Patch/Hotfix releases and STILL NO REBOOT, then you will eventually be FORCED to reboot because the system will crash! Then of course, you don't have to reboot , the BSOD satisfies any need for reboot - you might appreciate it better if it was planned.
vi. Patch 4's ePO extension adds the ability to query what Hotfixes are installed on clients. Be sure to set the conditions as "contains" rather than "equals", because the field we are querying might contain multiple Hotfix values and the "equals" does exact comparisons.
vii. Patch 4's ePO extension adds the ability to query the status of the On-Access Scanner. That means if it shows "bEnabled=0" or "disabled" then there's some kind of problem on the client.
viii. Oh yeah, Patch 4 is for ALL supported Windows platforms. HURRAH!
ix. Patch 4 is our officially supported release for Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2.
x. Just because I wanted to list 10 things... Patch 5 can be expected about 6 months after Patch 4 is released.
I'm sure there are questions.
This thread might get lengthy and wordy if I tried to respond to them all separately. So, I'll wait for some questions to accumulate then try to answer them here or I may use them as fodder for an FAQ elsewhere.


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On June 29, several Fox News media figures suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship" to screen news reports to determine whether they "hurt the country" or are of "news value," in the wake of a New York Times article disclosing a Treasury Department program designed to monitor international financial transactions.
In response to the reports describing a Treasury Department program designed to monitor international financial transactions for terrorist activity, President Bush and other White House officials lashed out at the media -- and The New York Times in particular -- for purportedly undermining the government's antiterrorism efforts. But as with the disclosure of the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance and domestic call-tracking programs, the administration and its supporters in the media have relied on numerous false and misleading claims to support their arguments.
In an online column, National Review editor Rich Lowry wrote that President Bush, who in 2004 pledged to cut the federal budget deficit in half by 2009, may follow through on that pledge by the end of 2006. However, many experts have said that the Bush administration routinely offers inflated deficit projections so it can then take credit for actual deficits that come in below those projections.
On Your World, Jonathan Hoenig, managing member of Capitalistpig Asset Management LLC, said the United States "should take preventative action" against North Korea to "take out their capacity to threaten us" and prevent North Korea from becoming "a real threat and a catalyst for a major sell-off on Wall Street."
On NBC's Today, Michael Smerconish selectively cited the stock market's performance and cherry-picked favorable data from a New York Times op-ed to claim that President Bush was making a "comeback." In fact, the Dow Jones industrial average has headed downward dramatically in recent weeks before experiencing a partial recovery in recent days, and other data cited in the Times op-ed led its authors to conclude that "it is increasingly hard to describe Iraq as a glass half-full."
A June 13 Washington Post article reported Karl Rove's claim in a recent speech that Democrats are "for more spending," while Republicans support "less spending" but provided no rebuttal to the assertion. In fact, President Bush and the GOP-led Congress have joined in creating massive budget deficits by significantly increasing domestic and defense spending while cutting taxes.
On his radio show, Neal Boortz stated that "[s]o many" of the victims of Hurricane Katrina "have turned out to be complete bums, just debris," and called "thousands" "deadbeat[s]."
On Fox News' Your World, Jonathan Hoenig, managing member of Capitalistpig Asset Management LLC, asserted that bombing Iran would raise the Dow Jones industrial average. Hoening stated: "[F]rankly, if you want to see the Dow go up, let's get the bombers in the air and neutralize this Iranian threat. We've gone to the negotiating table, we have danced around with these people" and "that's not going to help this country nor the stock market." During the discussion, host Neil Cavuto stated that "the message is just, 'Avoid people with beards,' " after airing a split-screen shot of Federal Reserve Chief Benjamin S. Bernanke and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both have beards.
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On ABC's World News Tonight, anchor Charles Gibson cited a poll showing that 60 percent of Americans disapprove of President Bush's handling of the economy and asked chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos to explain the "disconnect" between this disapproval rating and the fact that that "economic numbers are pretty good." Stephanopoulos responded by quoting unnamed "Republican strategists" who attributed the low poll numbers solely to high gas prices. No perspective was offered from Democrats, who might have noted that wage increases are barely keeping pace with inflation.
On Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, Neal Boortz made misleading claims about the Fair Tax Act, introduced by Rep. John Linder, which would replace all existing federal taxes with a national retail sales tax on most consumer and government purchases. In fact, Boortz relied on an unusual method of describing sales tax rates. Moreover, according to President Bush's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, Boortz significantly understated the tax rate necessary for the Fair Tax Act to be revenue-neutral.
On Fox News Live, Time magazine White House correspondent Mike Allen declared that the guilty verdicts for former Enron CEOs Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling are "going to be very helpful to the president [George W. Bush] because it shows that even friends of the president, even big business, longtime supporters of the president are prosecuted, and there is justice even for big fish."
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On Fox News' Your World, Michelle Dallacroce, the founder of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, asserted that there is no reason "that we have to have" immigrant women and children in the United States, since there are no jobs for "the women and the children [to] do ... other than their children's job is to dumb down the American children and overpopulate our schools."
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The Washington Post reported on House Republicans' passage of a $2.8 trillion budget proposal, the GOP divide over the spending plan, and an alternative budget blueprint put forward by moderate Republicans. But the Post ignored entirely an alternative budget proposed by House Democrats, which would have restored GOP-proposed cuts to social services and reinstated the pay-as-you-go rule that Republicans let expire in 2002.
On ABC's World News Tonight, anchor Elizabeth Vargas noted President Bush's claim that dividend and capital gains tax cuts passed in 2003 "have helped expand the economy and create jobs," but she omitted any mention of critics who have challenged the administration's claims that the tax cuts were responsible for the recent economic growth.
A New York Times article about new Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee radio advertisements on Social Security incorrectly stated that the ads "try to remind those who traditionally vote Republican of their party's plan to add private investment accounts" to the retirement program. In fact, President Bush did not propose adding accounts to the existing system; instead, he proposed allowing workers to divert up to 4 percent of wages (about one-third of their payroll taxes) into a private account, removing it from the money available to pay Social Security benefits for current retirees.

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Yeah if anything was a waste of my money it was Just Dance 3. It's like ugggh it's the same thing as 2 but with different songs. At least the stylistic jump from 1 to 2 was largely noticeable and appreciable.
Twisted Metal....
compared to the older games... like Twisted Metal Black...this game had very little content as far as story content goes..
I beat the game in a matter of hours on hardest difficulty
I would have kept it for the Multiplayer , but it was really on and off for me. Some days it would work and others it wouldn't let me in.
I got fed up and returned it
Maybe stuffs to be made for deviants soon
Sniper Elite 1
Seriously, only the first few missions are actually fun.
after that the whole realism aspect of the game is pretty much flushed down the drain and it's pretty much your average run and gunner.
oh and it takes like 8 missions before you actually get the only good sniper rifle in the game.
i certainly hope Sniper Elite V2 is going to do A LOT better than the first one.
Even the attempt at a moral conflict was awful. In ToS1 they had "Conformity to preserve peace, or freedom despite the conflict?" In TOS2 they had "Your best friend or the rest of the world?" Granted the latter conflict was in 1, but every time it came up the heroes reluctantly concluded on the latter.
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recently I would have to say resident evil outbreak on the ps2.
I think it was an insult to the resident evil series just like the movies.
That and grand theft auto san andreas,
I loved vice city, and I may listen to "rap".
But san andreas was to "ghetto" for me.
WHAT San Andreas is the best GTA to date!
Also on the topic.
The newest Medal of Honor kinda sucked. But I only paid like 5 bucks for it anyway, and beat it. But it was just a blatant wannabe CoD clone 'realistic' style. And the multiplayer was built on a totally different engine, which was Frostbite. So that made it feel and look almost exactly like Bad Company 2, except the guns suck.
Twilight Princess sucks can't believe I bought it
for example I have yet to play any of the games that you listed there cause they do not interest me.
Granted with san andreas The size of the game world and the amount of stuff to do is twice that of previous
GTA games if not more.
but for example, the RC missions,
I hated them so much, I broke two controllers just trying to finish those missions alone.


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I guess it's time for a new bio since I've had the other one for eons. Head dev of Insolence, I have some very limited experience with coding, yadda yadda yadda.
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it looks like some Poisonous Nuclear BOmb Land in this PLACE!
Fallout: City 17 would be badass.
Not green enough, I say! We will place green filters over every texture ever! We shall call it Insolence: Green Edition!
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Rescue crews prepare to go in the river after a man, seen in background, stuck on a rock in the middle of the river in Springfield.SPRINGFIELD - Rescue crews from Springfield and Hartford's swiftwater rescue team Tuesday morning saved a young man from the middle of the Black River, after he apparently jumped off the Fellows footbridge into the river and got stuck on a rock in the middle.
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"The EFF is very peaceful," spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi told reporters.
"The only violent people are the ANC who have killed people in Mothutlung, Relela and Marikana."
Hundreds of supporters started to gather at Pieter Roos Park in Parktown ahead of the planned march.
Members wearing red berets sang and danced as they waited for more buses to bring in supporters.
They were singing "Si zo votela uMalema" (we will vote for Malema) and "Malema is going, make way for him".
A placard at the march read: "SABC belongs to Zuma and ANC - let's go burn it," while another said: "The secrecy bill is not yet signed so why hide our EFF advert - A luta continua (the struggle continues)."
The march is in protest over the public broadcaster refusing to air the party's election commercial.
The SABC claims the advert, which features the slogan "destroy e-tolls physically", incites violence. The matter was taken to the Independent Communications Authority of SA which ruled in favour of the broadcaster.
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I'm planning on travelling to Vietnam about the 2nd of April and am planning on flying in to Hanoi and working my way down the countryover 3 weeks. As I will be stopping off for a few days in different parts is it possible to get a flexible ticket of sorts? What I mean by that instead of having to buy a ticket for all the legs e.g A ticket for Hanoi - Da Nang then a seperate ticket for Nha Trang.
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Not possible on the train. You could buy all the different tickets you need at the train station in Hanoi , but then you're stuck with them if you want to change your plans - more stops, fly some legs, head off in to the central highlands (where there is no train).
You can buy a ticket Hanoi - Saigon for a bus trip which allows you the flexibility of stopping off as often as you want along the way, but you're committed to a single company for the whole journey (even if you find out that they suck early on) and, imho, likely to end up in more of a tourist herd...
With three weeks, which is better than two weeks, but still not enough to see everything, I'd just make it up as I went along. Difficult to plan how long you want to stay somewhere until you get there,,,,
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now do some simple logic thinking.
-all traininfo is via seat61. to find. trains are IMHO only worth it for longer overnite trips in a sleeper.
-For bus: you would need to make a new REServation anyway all the time- does it really matter if you buy a new ticket then again? For those ''stopover''tickets you ALSO need to choose a route, with the stops-you cannot just change mind after buying-or loose the money. These tickets tend to cost a little more (but are still so cheap for westerners thats not worth even thinking about)as all single tickets combined-thats for the added paperwork and sending details over.
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You will waste too much time traveling by train in Vietnam - suggest you mix in a few flights. Danang-Nha Trang is terribly long and boring by train - fly that sector.
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I recall reading something about them shooting scenes as written, with all actors in place and dialogue spoken, and then for each scene doing a "second pass" through the empty set, duplicating exactly all of the camera movements of the filmed "live" take. Would that second pass be with a 3D or digital camera, do you suppose?
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- influence your prospects to your way of thinking
Remember, this technique is used by wealthy entrepreneurs, CEO's, top managers and top sales people. If you are going to take this technique seriously, it is important that you know where you are going and what you want.
The main goal is to get our prospects to agree with us and make a purchase. We want them to understand our thinking and feel comfortable with us making the decision for them. People only want to adopt a person's belief who know what they are talking about. Illustrate your leadership and confidence while using the outcome-based thinking method to close the sale in your next meeting.
This method consist of 6 questions you'll want to get comfortable with answering before you go to a meeting or before you negotiate. Once you get the hang of it, you will be able to implement this without even thinking about it.
- What exactly do I want out of the meet up.
- What does the other person want? If I don't know exactly, what is he likely to want?
- What is the very least I will accept out of the meeting?
- What problems could arise?
- How will I deal with each problem? If possible how can I turn it into a benefit for the other person?
- How will I bring the session to a close?
Now for the live examples.
How to Use Outcome-Based Thinking Technique to Close Sales
Now, lets look at how you can go about using these 6 questions to close more sales.
We are going to use a treadmill as our example. Let's say you are meeting with a gym owner to present to them the new FTX Fitness Treadmill (not real by the way). Your goal is to get them to give you a definite "YES"! This is how you would use the outcome-based thinking technique to prepare yourself for the outcome that you want.
- What exactly do I want out of the meet up? As the company representative, I want to make the sale without having to convince the gym owner too much. I want him to see the value instantly.
- What does the other person want? If I don't know exactly, what is he (Gym Owner) likely to want? He wants a safe and reliable treadmill for his members. He also want an advanced but user friendly treadmill that shows people the amount of calories burned etc. Price plays a factor too. So, he wants a machine that can do all of the the things listed above without breaking his bank account.
- What is the very least I will accept out of the meeting? We can afford to adjust the price if necessary. That means the most we can go down is $300 from $2500. But we are shooting for the full price.
- What problems could arise? The competition might have a lower price. The gym owner may think his members will not like the new treadmills. He may not want to upgrade to a newer treadmills because he is comfortable with what he has.
- How will I deal with each problem? If possible, how can I turn it into a benefit for the other person? I will explain to the gym owner, he should put his members first and not consider a "lower price" the best option. I'll also mention that he can't please everybody, but once people start getting results from the FTX Fitness Treadmill the "greatness" of it will spread by word of mouth. As far as the gym owner not wanting to upgrade. I will handle it as follows. If you upgrade to the FTX Fitness Treadmills, not only will your members thank you but they will love you. The results they will get will blow their minds and force them to bring in new people just to try out your new treadmills. As you see, I planned how I would explain to the gym owner why he should upgrade and what will happen if he does.
- How will I bring the session to a close? I will remind the owner that we have a 60 Day money back guarantee. There are no strings attached and if he wants a refund, the company will do so with no questions asked. I will also point out a few more benefits and positive scenarios to put the gym owner at ease. Then at the very end I will ask the gym owner if he is ready to go forward with the ordering process.
What I just did was answer the 6 questions that will help me visualize and prepare myself to know what I want from the meeting. I know what I will accept. I know my main goal. I understand what he may not like and the negatives that could pop up. I also know how to close the meeting with a bang! I understand all of that from simple answering those 6 questions.
Ok. Let's recap:
- Outcome-Based Thinking is determining how a situation will go before it takes place
- determine what you want form the situation
- write out the 6 questions with answers of how the process might go
You see, using outcome-based thinking is an awesome way to be prepared for any meeting, vacation, or any conversation. Remember what you are doing is thinking ahead of time how things will go. Most likely the person you are talking to will not be using this technique, which gives you the upper hand. It will take a few times to get to the point where you can do this without writing it out. Following this method and you will be prepared to close more sales and make more money.
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Market Breakfast Technicals: Unilever, Newell Rubbermaid, Ecolab, and Callaway Golf PR Newswire LONDON, December 6, 2013 LONDON, December 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Editor Note: For more information about this release, please scroll to bottom. On Thursday, December 05, 2013, the U.S. equity market edged lower with the S&P 500 ending the day at 1,785.03, down 0.43%; the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at 15,821.51, down 0.43%; and the NASDAQ Composite finishing at 4,033.17, down 0.12%. The S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary Sector Index edged 0.01% lower to end the day at 510.79; while the same has gained 1.05% in the last one month and 9.93% in the previous three months, compared to a gain of 1.25% and 7.85% in the S&P 500 during the respective periods. The major movers in the sector included Unilever N.V. (NYSE: UN), Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (NYSE: NWL), Ecolab Inc. (NYSE: ECL), and Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY). 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Located down a cobbled mews off Charterhouse square Cafe du Marche is the sort of place that feels like you are in on a hidden secret. It is really best to be taken there otherwise you may get lost. Inside, it is more Provencal than Provence itself with a rough hewn brick walls lining the light filled rooms. The tables are set with fresh white linen and wicker chairs are padded with blue and white striped cushions. A piano sits in the centre of the room and is apparently used for jazz in the evenings.
The menu is a hymn sheet of French classics. In the cafe there is a set menu of £33.85 per person which is all written in French except for the part about the 15% "optional" service charge which is in English so that there is no misunderstandings. Never mind, from the entrees the soupe de poisson is a Cafe du Marche classic. It is a thin but flavoursome soup that glows with a rich burgundy colour and is served in the traditional French way with a side plate of croutons and cheese. It is not necessarily a pretty sight as you spoon the soup into your mouth with layers of melted cheese stretching in taut spiderwebs from the spoon to the bowl but it is certainly delicious. The risotto de petit pois is also a highlight, stunning in the simplicity of the creamy white risotto studded with fresh peas and topped with shavings of Parmesan cheese.
If there are two of you (and surely there will be) you must order la cote de boeuf. You will be served with a wooden board containing a truly gluttonous amount of tender steak cut into thick slices against the grain. Be warned that Cafe du Marche is truly French as meat is served on the rare side. A request for medium rare results in steak that is almost still kicking so I would be interested to see what you get if you ask for rare. The cote de boeuf is served with a sizzling skillet of baby potatoes and roasted cherry tomatoes alongside lashings of Bearnaise sauce. Apart from the flagship dishes the menu changes on a monthly basis but if it is offered another good option is the "Pastilla" de pigeon a la marocaine. This traditional Moroccan dish comprises slices of pigeon breast and slivered almonds encased in an envelope of filo pastry and served with a creamy sauce.
Desserts are not especially French but they are simple and satisfying. Apple and rhubarb crumble is a touch soggy but is served with the richest and most buttery quenelle of cream that you will ever taste. Alternatively try the mousse au chocolat which is served in an old fashioned sundae glass with curls of dark chocolate adorning the silky mousse.
Cafe du Marche is a great place to secret yourself away for an afternoon or evening. The wine list is extensive although with an emphasis on French wine and stronger in relation to whites than reds. Service is attentive but Cafe du Marche maintains a relaxed atmosphere and manages to feel homely rather than stuffy.
Details: 22 Charterhouse Square, Charterhouse Mews, Smithfield, EC1M 6AH (Ph 020 7608 1609)
Damage: Pricey
If you liked reading this you might like to read about another great French restaurant in London, Cheyne Walk Brasserie or what about a lazy Sunday lunch at Passage in Aix en Provence in France.
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Dan said at 9:59 am on April 9th, 2009:
Another place I've seen and pondered. Incredibly you've been knocking off ALL the restaurants in the area I've noticed but never visited lately LOL
Gourmet Chick said at 4:57 pm on April 9th, 2009:
This one I would really recommend it is like another little world in there (a French world!) and the food is great
Krista said at 3:05 pm on April 13th, 2009:
This place has been on my list too for ages! Why I never remember it when I'm looking for someplace to have lunch or dinner in the neighborhood, I'll never know! (Like today. Where I ended up at The Well. Which was nice. But I've been to The Well like 12 times.)
goodshoeday said at 4:04 pm on April 13th, 2009:
Cafe du Marche really is wonderful. As you say its great for a special lunch, the cote de boeuf is divine and you really do wonder how it is that you're not in France when you emerge at 4pm! Try to get someone else to pay but DO go if you can. Love it.
Jeanne said at 4:54 pm on April 22nd, 2009:
This is literally a 2 minute walk from my office and I've never been there. Mea culpa!! I have been to Comptoir Gascon which is nearby and another haven for Francophiles – but I really do need to make a plan to go here!


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- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups coarsely chopped toasted pecans (about 10 ounces), for filling
- 2 cups pecan halves (about 8 ounces), lightly toasted, for topping
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In the face of ever-increasing cybersecurity risks, significant attention is being paid to improving agencies' preparedness and response to vulnerabilities and threats throughout the public sector. Two ways to go about supporting those activities involve addressing cybersecurity from a risk-based framework and engaging top-level leadership in addressing security as a strategic priority. A third complementary imperative involves establishing an overall IT governance structure that includes cybersecurity as a key enabler to achieving programmatic outcomes.
Fortunately, agencies have a number of tools at their disposal to enhance their governance framework.
At the end of 2008, the Office of Management and Budget reaffirmed and clarified the organizational, functional and operational governance framework required within the executive branch for managing and optimizing the effective use of IT. OMB Memorandum 09-02 established an IT governance framework that addresses the management structure, responsibilities and authorities of heads of departments and agencies and their CIOs in planning, acquiring, securing, operating and managing IT systems and assets within the department or agency.
The memo requires that agencies designate an executive-level CIO who reports to the head of the organization and has formal and full responsibility for all requirements set forth in statutes, regulations and public laws. That CIO also has ultimate responsibility for the governance, management and delivery of IT mission and business programs at the agency and must have an effective operative means of meeting that responsibility.
Furthermore, the CIO has the authority to set agencywide IT policy, including all areas of IT governance such as enterprise architecture and standards, IT capital planning and investment management, IT asset management, IT budgeting and acquisition, IT performance management, IT risk management and IT workforce management. The authority also extends to IT security and operations and IT information security, working with the agency chief information security officer and other security officials.
In August 2011, OMB issued related guidance in memo 11-29, which updated policy regarding the CIO's role in IT governance and explicitly discussed information security as part of the CIO's responsibilities. Taken together, those two OMB memos provide a strong framework for incorporating security considerations into overarching IT governance and strategy. That approach allows agency leaders to properly assess security risks in the context of risks and benefits from IT initiatives more broadly and from the programs that leverage IT and require good security to be successful.
One way to achieve the objectives of strong IT governance is to incorporate the COBIT 5 framework as a guide to implementing sound IT governance at the enterprise level. COBIT, which stands for Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology, serves as a business framework for the governance and management of enterprise IT and clearly defines IT governance as distinct from IT management. According to the COBIT 5 framework: "Governance ensures that stakeholder needs, conditions and options are evaluated to determine balanced, agreed-on enterprise objectives to be achieved; setting direction through prioritization and decision-making; and monitoring performance and compliance against agreed-on direction and objectives."
Furthermore, "management plans, builds, runs and monitors activities in alignment with the direction set by the governance body to achieve the enterprise objectives."
As technology use continues to increase the spread and impact of IT and cyber vulnerabilities and incidents, so do the tools and techniques to improve controls to protect key enterprise resources. The COBIT 5 framework is one of those tools. (COBIT 5 currently consists of the framework, two enabler guides, four professional guides, and COBIT 5 Online Collaborative Environment.) Moreover, COBIT 5 is one of the informative references contained in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Cybersecurity Framework.
COBIT 5 is built on five basic principles and includes extensive guidance on enablers for governance and management of enterprise IT. Enterprises can use COBIT 5 framework principles to create optimal value by governing IT in a holistic manner, implementing comprehensive risk management and security controls, and ensuring that those controls are defined and implemented at a level appropriate to the increasing complexity of the enterprise.
The COBIT 5 framework delivers to its stakeholders the most complete and up-to-date guidance on governance and management of enterprise IT, as depicted in the graphic below.
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COBIT has proved to be very effective for implementing IT governance and detailed security controls globally at all sorts of institutions and a number of federal and state government agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs.
In light of the constant changes in the IT environment, all enterprises should look to IT governance to secure information from the moment it is created to the time it is destroyed. That is why, in the past decade, IT governance has moved to the forefront of enterprise efforts to effectively manage and appropriately protect IT systems and assets, contributing to the success of risk-based security and supporting strategic decisions made by C-level executives across the public and private sectors.
Note: A version of this article also appears on the IBM Center for the Business of Government website.
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Interesting take on governance and management of enterprise IT, the combination of the new COBIT 5 framework and other influences will result in more stringent control process. With the sarbanes-oxley act in effect it will be interesting to see how this will impact internal audit. I work with McGladrey and there's an article on our website about SOX Act that highlights the need for a newly re-focused evaluation of internal controls that readers of this article may find it useful. @ "SOX Reset 2014" http://bit.ly/1g4aX8C
Not to deride the benefits of risk-based security, governance, or a top-down strategic approach but this article does little to explain the practical aspects of such an approach, or what security is and what is its goal? First why, then what and then how? The problem is one of mindset. 90% of the security "experts" I deal with have a tactical mindset and start with the 'how'. Also because many use a law enforcement approach 'why' is framed in terms of treats. Consider the statement: "cybersecurity as a key enabler to achieving programmatic outcomes" and then consider how this statement can be interpreted given the predisposition of the above approach. In other words, if the application of a tool is inappropriate one can at best expect similar results. While tactics are important shifting the focus to strategy requires one to focus on vulnerabilities. One should always ask 'why' then 'what' is being secured before focusing on 'how' best to guard against threats.
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Re: Was Sisko a Javert
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Sisko did take Eddington's betrayal too personally and as a bruise to his ego but I don't think he stepped over the line. And Eddington's delusions of picaresque grandeur were really just as bad and way more creepy.
Let's also remember that nobody died when Sisko gassed the planet, and he was completely sure Eddington would continue to do it to Cardassian planets.
You honestly think that a planet with thousands, if not millions of people, can be evacuated by a terrorist group that doesn't even have enough ships to fight their enemies in an open battle in the window of an hour? We couldn't even evacuate New Orleans with a week's foreknowledge of Katrina.
I was under the impression that Sisko destroyed the biosphere, rendering the planet uninhabitable. He didn't introduce anything directly lethal to the colonists.
Also, they have a bit more resources than 'we' do, and finally, N.O. could have been evacuated with the proper application of resources.
He released trilitium resin into the atmosphere. It's a waste product produced by warp engines. In Starship Mine the bad guys tried to steal some from the E-D, and it was commented more than once they had to be careful with it or they would "be dead before they know it" and tampering with the container blew up the terrorist chick's ship. It's also the same crap that was in those uber warheads Janeway used to destroy the Caretaker's array. That stuff's lethal.
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