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- South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services Concentrates on Highly Secure Networking
- The South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services is charged with the active supervision of more than 35,000 offenders who are on probation, out on parole, or have been released as youthful offenders by the state Department of Corrections. In setting up a secure and assured networking solution,...
- Tags: Network, Juniper Networks Inc., Probation, Team Management, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Networking, Firewalls, Security, Management
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- Technical Assurance, Security Policies and GSI Accreditation for the National Probation Service
- The National Probation Service NPS plays a major national role in reducing crime and re-offending. GSI accreditation was fundamental to the infrastructure for NPS and the National Offenders Management Service NOMS as a whole. Insight took an environment with little formalised or centralised security provision, and implemented a structured security...
- Tags: Siemens AG, National Probation Service, Security
- Case studies
- Security and Assurance in Outsource Contracts: The National Probation Service
- The National Probation Service NPS is split into 42 regional areas across the UK each of which has an autonomous management board. The NPS, like many other Government departments, public bodies and private sector organisations, outsources its IT provision to a third party. The NPD found that in some cases...
- Tags: Security, Siemens AG, Outsource, National Probation Service, Outsourcing, Team Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- Case studies
- The Dell Learning System Mobilizes Training for South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services
- As an organization that helps motivated offenders become contributing members of the community, generating positive momentum lies at the core of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services' SCDPPPS mission. SCDPPPS wanted to provide efficient, tailored technology and career training to more than 800 employees, many of...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Training, Workforce Management, E-learning, Professional Development, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Career
- Case studies
- South Carolina Government Agency Keeps Network Under Lock and Key
- South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services needed to provide reliable and secure network services for a highly mobile 750-person workforce supervising more than 35,000 offenders. At the network's edge, Information Technology Systems and Services ITSS team deployed Juniper Networks J4300 service routers, which are a modular platform...
- Tags: Network, Agency, Juniper Networks Inc., Government, WANs, Networking
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Tagging and Vehicle Tracking Enhances Security for Consignia
- Tagging - whether of vehicles, criminals on probation, or works of art - is an accepted method of logistics tracking. It can also have major implications for improved security, as the experience of ParcelForce demonstrates. The 411 Eureka Tagging System from Avonwood is used for identification of the Parcelforce fleet...
- Tags: Security, Vehicle, Tagging
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- Fighting fire with water
- TechRepublic community member Absolutely!, in the discussion of the article, Fighting fire with fire, suggested a "community service" component to sentencing for malicious security crackers who are caught and convicted. The idea put forward is that they should contribute to development of software specifically meant to counter the efforts...
- Tags: Security Cracker, Suggestion, Security, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- QUALCOMM Case Study: iSECUREtrac
- iSECUREtrac is a 54-person, publicly traded technology company whose core business is tracking criminal offenders through GPS. iSECUREtrac needed to do live GPS/RF tracking and real-time remote data alerts with wireless coverage ubiquitous enough that offenders would not fall between the cracks. Offenders wear a Personal Tracking Unit PTU on...
- Tags: Qualcomm Inc., iSECUREtrac, GPS, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies
- Hennepin County Streamlines Inter-Departmental Communication Through Infrastructure Consolidation and Business Integration
- The Hennepin County Department of Community Corrections' DOCC Adult Field Services AFS division provides probation, parole and pre-trial services to the Fourth Judicial District and the communities of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The challenge was to streamline data exchange, Web-enable systems, enhance disaster recovery capabilities and improve cost-efficiency for adult justice...
- Tags: Minnesota, Business Integration, Consolidation, IBM Corp., Integration, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Mainframes, Linux, Virtualization, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
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- High Availability HP Solutions Play Key Role in Denmark's Fight Against Crime
- Kriminalforsorgen is Denmark's Prison and Probation Service. Its job is to enforce the punishments imposed by the courts, and sophisticated IT has become the newest recruit in this fight against crime. Formed few years ago to provide standardised IT for both Kriminalforsorgen and the Danish Ministry of Justice, the datacentre...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., High Availability, Kriminalforsorgen, Backups, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
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- Recruitment Manager (exe)
- The Recruitment Manager is the total solution for facilitating the hiring of personnel to your organization. The Recruitment Manager allows maintaining your Applicant and Interviewee Lists easily with Drag-and-Drop lists, maintaining your Job Vacancy details easily including job description, technical and non-technical keyword matching, remuneration details, probation and notice duration,...
- Tags: Interviewee, Stage, Advertiser, Recruitment Manager, E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2007-07-05
- Tougher cybercrime sentences will be needed
- According to a CNET News.com report, a German judge issued a21-month suspended sentence the teenager who admitted creating the Sassercomputer worm. The 19-year-old Jaschan was put on probation for three years andmust complete 30 hours of community service.While I don't believe Jaschan's crime warrants a lengthy prisonterm, the court should...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Sasser worm, cybercrime
- Blog posts 2005-07-11
- The worst things you can do as a manager
- Lately, I have been thinking about a couple of managementpractices that seem (based on my experience of more than 18 years ingovernment) to occur more frequently in government settings and to havesignificant detrimental effects on employees and the organization. The firstone is keeping underperforming employees around when they should be...
- Tags: firing, Ramon Padilla
- Blog posts 2006-09-17
- Adventures of a coddled employee
- Most people would feel very lucky to work for an organization that is reluctant to fire anyone. And, admittedly, that attitude is better than an intolerant one in which employees arent nurtured to perform at their best. But there is a downside to keeping a person no matter what their...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, toni bowers, Teams, publishing gal, Office Politics, Management, General, Firing, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- SEX EDUCATION and TEENIE BOPPERS
- SEX EDUCATION and TEENIE BOPPERSWhatever happened to the old maiden school teacher? This 24 year old chique in Tampa that had sex with 14 year old students is not much more a kid herself. In my school days there were no teachers younger than 40 years old.This gets at a...
- Tags: FluxIt, GeoBub, MrMiami, off-topic, teacher
- Discussion threads 2004-12-02
- Is your credit card data at risk?
- Who should be watching out for your credit card data?For the most part, this should be a no-brainer. The customer should be watching out for their own information as they are ultimately the only ones that they can trust to look out for their own best interests.That being said,...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Andy Moon, credit card, credit card data, TJX
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Talking Shop: TechRepublic members report problems with inappropriate use of e-mail and Internet
- Learn from the bad Internet and e-mail usage patterns of other TechRepublic members.The majority of TechRepublic members responding to a recent survey say they’ve discovered an employee downloading, accessing, or e-mailing inappropriate content at work.But while 71 percent of you have experienced this problem, you differed on how you dealt...
- Tags: Marketing research, Internet, Loraine Lawson, TechRepublic Members, E-Mailing, survey, e-mail
- Technical articles 2000-09-08
- No visas? No problem. No jobs.
- Does the lack of immigration reform concern you?Are you happy that bill was scuttled, and along with it, more mandates for states to adopt Real ID? And, does the PR campaign of corporate reaction seem as transparent to you as it does to me?RE: No visas? No problem. No...
- Tags: Public relations, job, johnbartley, alien, illegal alien, American Citizen, Real-ID, amnesty
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- Geek Trivia: Hollywood hack job
- If someone asks the average person to compile a list of notorious hackers from history, odds are the first name they'd come up is "that kid from WarGames." When someone explains that WarGames was just a movie, the average Joe would probably do a Google search and come up with...
- Tags: Job, Kevin Mitnick, Hacking, Government, Security, Federal Government, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- For lawmakers, identity theft a kettle of phish
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest e-newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, identity fraud, ITPEA, Social Security, identity theft
- Technical articles 2004-07-15
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