E-Government, Security, and Cyber-Privacy

Cyber Crime ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 1314-1327
Author(s):  
Ross Wolf ◽  
Ronnie Korosec
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Government Responsibility ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
On Line ◽  
Enhance Efficiency ◽  
Technology And Communication ◽  
Public And Private Sector

E-government involves governments at all levels using advanced technology and communication tools to provide services, allow for transactions, and respond to citizen’s needs and requests. This on-line version of government, which is designed to enhance efficiency and improve operations, relies heavily on a network of data structures that are currently in place. While much has been written about e-government, few studies exist that link the concepts of e-government and security with individual rights and government responsibility. Now more than ever, progressive changes in technology allow public and private sector entities to routinely collect, store, and disseminate large files of personal information about the citizens and clients they interact with. The power associated with the magnitude of this information requires great responsibility and accountability. This chapter is a beginning point to discuss how governments in the United States attempt to maintain secure fortresses of data, limit the dissemination of sensitive information to unauthorized parties, and ensure on line privacy for citizens.

E-Government, Security, and Cyber-privacy

2010 ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Ross Wolf ◽  
Ronnie Korosec
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Government Responsibility ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
On Line ◽  
Enhance Efficiency ◽  
Technology And Communication ◽  
Public And Private Sector

E-government involves governments at all levels using advanced technology and communication tools to provide services, allow for transactions, and respond to citizen’s needs and requests. This on-line version of government, which is designed to enhance efficiency and improve operations, relies heavily on a network of data structures that are currently in place. While much has been written about e-government, few studies exist that link the concepts of e-government and security with individual rights and government responsibility. Now more than ever, progressive changes in technology allow public and private sector entities to routinely collect, store, and disseminate large files of personal information about the citizens and clients they interact with. The power associated with the magnitude of this information requires great responsibility and accountability. This chapter is a beginning point to discuss how governments in the United States attempt to maintain secure fortresses of data, limit the dissemination of sensitive information to unauthorized parties, and ensure on line privacy for citizens.

scholarly journals The Remarkable 10th Anniversary of Stuxnet

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Gábor Selján
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Nuclear Facilities ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
Infrastructure Monitoring ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Cyber Espionage ◽  
Public And Private Sector

It has been ten years since Stuxnet, a highly sophisticated malware that was originally aimed at Iran’s nuclear facilities, was uncovered in 2010. Stuxnet is considered to be the first cyber weapon, used by a nation state threat actor in a politically motivated cyberattack. It has significantly changed the cybersecurity landscape, since it was the first publicly known malware that could cause physical damage to real processes or equipment. Its complexity and level of sophistication, due to the exploitation of four different zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows and the usage of two stolen certificates, has triggered a paradigm shift in the cybersecurity industry. The recently uncovered cyber espionage campaign known as SolarStorm is a worthy anniversary celebration for Stuxnet. Especially because now the tables have turned. This campaign targeted the United States Government and its interests with a highly sophisticated supply chain attack through the exploitation of the SolarWinds Orion Platform used by thousands of public and private sector customers for infrastructure monitoring and management. In this article, I attempt to summarise the key points about the malware deployed in the SolarStorm campaign that can be drawn from reports available at the time of the writing.

The Economic Attributes of Medical Care: Implications for Rationing Choices in the United States and United Kingdom

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwayne A. Banks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Public And Private Sector

The healthcare systems of the United States and United Kingdom are vastly different. The former relies primarily on private sector incentives and market forces to allocate medical care services, while the latter is a centrally planned system funded almost entirely by the public sector. Therefore, each nation represents divergent views on the relative efficacy of the market or government in achieving social objectives in the area of medical care policy. Since its inception in 1948, the National Health Services (NHS) of the United Kingdom has consistently emphasized equity in the allocation of medical services. It has done so by creating a system whereby services are universally free of charge at the point of entry. Conversely, the United States has relied upon the evolution of a perplexing array of public and private sector insurance schemes centered more around consumer choice than equity in allocation.

US 2020 census will affect post-2020 voting dynamics

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hispanic Community ◽  
Fossil Fuel Industry ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Fuel Industry

Subject The US 2020 census. Significance The United States will hold its ten-yearly census in 2020, with census day itself on April 1. The census is one of the most important foundations of US public and private sector activity -- its data helps allocate federal funds and political power and informs business decisions. However, there are concerns that 2020 will see a historic undercount of marginalised communities. Impacts The census will lead to the enhancement of Texas’s political power and influence. Texas’s greater political weight will further increase the importance of the Hispanic community in US politics. Texas’s political rise could elevate the fossil fuel industry, but possibly also wind and solar power and green technology. There will be further court cases challenging electoral redistricting decisions.

Debt Trends and Future Outlook

2019 ◽  
pp. 699-715
Author(s):  
Dianna Preece
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Federal Reserve ◽  
Student Loans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Debt Markets ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Domestic Products ◽  
Roll Back ◽  
The U.S

The United States had a combined $47 trillion of public and private sector debt outstanding in the third quarter of 2016. This staggering figure is larger than many countries’ gross domestic products (GDPs) combined. Borrowers include the U.S. government, businesses, and households. The debt is held by both domestic and foreign investors. The amount of debt affects everything from a country’s ability to grow to an individual’s ability to get married or buy a home when saddled with crushing student loans. In early 2018, the most notable trends in debt markets include increased borrowing across all sectors and rising interest rates that will affect the ability of some borrowers to repay their debts. These trends are not just domestic, but global, as the U.S. Federal Reserve begins to roll back a decade-long period of quantitative easing and other central banks are likely to soon follow. This chapter considers trends in debt markets and their implications for the future.

The 2012 Salary Survey of Public and Private Sector Fisheries Employers in the United States and Canada

Fisheries ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth F. Kurzawski ◽  
William L. Fisher ◽  
Dirk Miller ◽  
James M. Long
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Salary Survey ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Toward Carbon Governance: Challenges across Scales in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Dilling
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Cycle ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Dialogue ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Public and private sector actors increasingly recognize the need for action to address climate change. With the introduction of “carbon sinks” into the policy dialogue, the notion of managing human activities to mitigate climate change has extended beyond energy systems and emissions of carbon dioxide to include management of the carbon cycle itself, through manipulation of the terrestrial and oceanic realms. The number of decision makers involved and scope of managing the carbon cycle deliberately for climate purposes raises enormous challenges to governance including identifying appropriate mechanisms where they do not yet exist and adding additional criteria onto existing mechanisms that are already affecting the carbon cycle. In this paper, I define effective carbon governance as limiting the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This paper outlines a number of challenges to effective carbon governance at multiple scales using the example of land use in the United States and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Similarities and Differences between Public and Private Sector Leadership Strategies in the Caribbean: Empirical Findings on the Link between Leadership, Culture, and Performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Paul L. Flemming
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conventional Theory ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Conventional theory, which holds that there is a significant difference between leadership in the public and private sectors as leaders manage organizational culture to achieve strategic performance, has begun to be disputed by recent scholars in organizational behavior. The purpose of this study was to validate the views of organizational practitioners that private sector leaders are best suited to facilitate organizational efficiency by examining the link between leaders, culture, and employee performance. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was distributed to middle managers (N=200) who worked in public and private sector organizations across the United States Virgin Islands to examine how the leaders used organizational culture to improve their organizations’ performances. The study found that leadership practices in both sectors have significant effects on performance. While the hierarchy culture was dominant in government agencies dictating effectiveness is the adherence to strict rules and regulations, the criteria of effectiveness most prominent in the private sector was market culture evident in the achieving of goals, outpacing the competition, increasing market share, and acquiring premium levels of financial returns. These findings suggest that, contrary to conventional theory, those leaders with the greatest organizational success are not restricted only to the private sector; but they are also evident in the public sector. This study concluded that leadership in both the public and the private sectors can induce a significant level of performance when strategies are aligned with organization’s culture and objectives as these organizations developed, grow, and mature.

scholarly journals BUILDING RESOURCE NETWORKS IN SERVICE OF OLDER PEOPLE THROUGH STATE ARTS AGENCIES' COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S30-S30
Author(s):  
Beth Bienvenu
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
Private Sector Organizations ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
State Arts Agencies

Abstract National, state, and local arts networks help build the capacity of public and private sector organizations to serve older adults through quality arts engagement opportunities. The National Endowment for the Arts has worked closely with state arts agencies to build networks through a community of practice to facilitate partnerships with artists, arts organizations, aging services, and the healthcare system. With more than 40 states participating, the initiative has resulted in new state partnerships, new state grant initiatives, and new arts learning programs for older adults. Arts service organizations also have a role to play in this work. For example, the American Alliance of Museums is building a network of museums that will develop and implement high-quality, intensive arts learning opportunities for older adults across the United States. This presentation will address how these networks are helping build capacity across the country to improve the health and well-being of older adults

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