After all, the same technology that connects companies to the global marketplace also makes their systems vulnerable to attack. ... Detective controls track security events after they occur and provide information for investigations when an incident is noticed or data is missing or corrupted. Assessment controls identify weaknesses in the environment by evaluating system configurations, security settings, access control lists, and other security elements of a particular system or layer. ... For example, every department and agency within the federal government has been mandated, by Executive ...

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The Web site of a vendor for Spector Pro, a popular keystroke logging program, explains that the software can be installed to operate in "stealth" mode so that it "does not show up as an icon, does not appear in the Windows system tray...... As PC World columnist Daniel Tynan points out, companies that don't monitor network traffic can be penalized for their ignorance: "Employees could accidentally (or deliberately) spill confidential information...or allow worms to spread throughout a corporate network. ... Legal scholar Jay Kesan points out that the law holds employers liable for employ...

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Being an active professional requires continual renewal of knowledge through publications, journals, seminars and conferences from which information about new developments are acquired. The legal system constantly updates laws, doctors and pharmacists must take into account the results of continuous research or development in the medical field, and engineers or technicians must learn to correctly integrate new technology into existing or new applications. ... Software engineers affect members of society via the programs they develop, which run on a computer system, which the person uses or is ...

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