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2013年7月9日 星期二
2013年7月8日 星期一
We believe both of those groups
In New York, about 300 demonstrators showed up to march from Union
Square to Federal Hall. A debate over the success of New York's protest
ensued on Reddit, where some wondered if the media conspired not to
cover the rally and where the demonstration was called both "a great
idea executed terribly" and "an epic flop."
Could the Fourth of July protests have gone better? Sure, Douglas MacArthur, a political science major at the University of Toronto and Restore the Fourth's spokesperson, tells the Voice.
"I think we could have had better internal organization on a national level," MacArthur added. "I was pleased with attendance--we had tens of thousands of people attending, which is a lot more than a lot of protests get."
For one thing, Restore the Fourth was never intended to be a single protest. The demonstrations on Independence Day were executed with one goal in mind: to "establish a base of support moving forward," MacArthur says, "which is really the hurdle we needed to pass to keep it a big enough thing to go long term and to get people's attention and bring attention to this issue."
This issue, MacArthur says, can be summed up in single sentence: "end unconstitutional surveillance efforts."
It's easy getting folks worked up enough to go out and protest--whether they are protesting income inequality or unfair taxes--the problem Restore the Fourth is facing now is the same problem movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party encountered before them: how to turn outrage into real action.
For Restore the Fourth, the answer is not to take cues from either of those movements. "We believe both of those groups could have done a much better job of being nonpartisan," MacArthur says.
Already, he says, the organization had been criticized for being aligned with both Occupy and the Tea Party. It's not, MacArthur says, adding, "We're not going to turn down their support where it has developed organically, especially at the local level, and we're not going to push anyone out because they come from a more specific political group."
Restore the Fourth's goal may ultimately be to become something closer to a nonprofit, like the ACLU or the Electronic Frontier Foundation--both of which have already offered the organization their support.
The next step, which has been discussed on the group's Reddit page,Cheap MileWeb Dedicated Server will be to pick a single day (likely this Friday) to flood Congress with phone calls about concerns about unlawful surveillance.
"We're going to try to get thousands and thousands and thousands of people to call Congress, and then people who noticed us on the fourth will know that we're not going away," MacArthur says.
There is also talk of another protest, based in a single city (likely Washington, D.C.) later in the summer.
Lastly, MacArthur says, "Political lobbying and legal action are things we're looking into--that would be more of a long term thing because we have to get the funding and the infrastructure in place before we can do that."
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Could the Fourth of July protests have gone better? Sure, Douglas MacArthur, a political science major at the University of Toronto and Restore the Fourth's spokesperson, tells the Voice.
"I think we could have had better internal organization on a national level," MacArthur added. "I was pleased with attendance--we had tens of thousands of people attending, which is a lot more than a lot of protests get."
For one thing, Restore the Fourth was never intended to be a single protest. The demonstrations on Independence Day were executed with one goal in mind: to "establish a base of support moving forward," MacArthur says, "which is really the hurdle we needed to pass to keep it a big enough thing to go long term and to get people's attention and bring attention to this issue."
This issue, MacArthur says, can be summed up in single sentence: "end unconstitutional surveillance efforts."
It's easy getting folks worked up enough to go out and protest--whether they are protesting income inequality or unfair taxes--the problem Restore the Fourth is facing now is the same problem movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party encountered before them: how to turn outrage into real action.
For Restore the Fourth, the answer is not to take cues from either of those movements. "We believe both of those groups could have done a much better job of being nonpartisan," MacArthur says.
Already, he says, the organization had been criticized for being aligned with both Occupy and the Tea Party. It's not, MacArthur says, adding, "We're not going to turn down their support where it has developed organically, especially at the local level, and we're not going to push anyone out because they come from a more specific political group."
Restore the Fourth's goal may ultimately be to become something closer to a nonprofit, like the ACLU or the Electronic Frontier Foundation--both of which have already offered the organization their support.
The next step, which has been discussed on the group's Reddit page,Cheap MileWeb Dedicated Server will be to pick a single day (likely this Friday) to flood Congress with phone calls about concerns about unlawful surveillance.
"We're going to try to get thousands and thousands and thousands of people to call Congress, and then people who noticed us on the fourth will know that we're not going away," MacArthur says.
There is also talk of another protest, based in a single city (likely Washington, D.C.) later in the summer.
Lastly, MacArthur says, "Political lobbying and legal action are things we're looking into--that would be more of a long term thing because we have to get the funding and the infrastructure in place before we can do that."
Read the full story at www.mileweb.com/promotion-dedicated-server!
2013年7月2日 星期二
They pioneered application performance management
Idera, a leading provider
of application and server management solutions, announced today the acquisition
of Precise Software, a provider of end-to-end application performance management
software. The acquisition expands the company's application performance
management offerings.
Precise Software products monitor and evaluate end-to-end performance information across physical and virtual environments for major packaged and custom application architectures.
"We are excited about the acquisition of Precise. They pioneered application performance management solutions and built a portfolio of intellectual property that includes patents, developed technology and best practices for the industry," said Randy Jacops, CEO of Idera. "With Precise and Idera, IT professionals can deploy a complete solution that covers monitoring, detection, resolution, prevention and administration."
Precise Software serves more than 800 customers. Like Idera, Precise provides solutions to problems that IT professionals face daily, by managing and securing applications in the enterprise and the cloud.
John Vitalie, CEO of Precise Software, said, "Our highly dedicated team at Precise has delivered market leading innovations to global customers for over 20 years. I'm very confident that combining our experience and leveraging our strengths will ensure customers achieve greater value via actionable intelligence about true application performance across the enterprise. This is a very exciting new era and significant achievements will follow."
Precise Software products will continue to be marketed, sold and supported by Precise Software employees,and select channel partners, and the Precise brand will continue as a distinct offering with minimal disruption to current customers. Idera expects a renewed focus on customer success, with product roadmaps focused on the highest value features and performance metrics.
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It was a last ride that would help define American music and pop culture for decades to come.
Long before there was Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain --- self-destructive stars who flamed out at their zenith --- there was Hiram "Hank" Williams, a hard-drinking, rough-around-the-edges Alabama country boy who wrote simple, heart-tugging songs about loneliness and then, still young, died alone in the back seat of his car.
The last hours of his troubled life long ago passed from reality to myth. Biographers have breathlessly speculated about what really happened. Officials have issued sketchy reports that only increased the mystery. Songwriters and playwrights still rhapsodize about it. An off-Broadway play, "HankWilliams: Lost Highway" is currently running in New York. A Web site dedicated to Williams estimates that more than 700 songs have been written about the singer, whose own recording career lasted only five years.
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Precise Software products monitor and evaluate end-to-end performance information across physical and virtual environments for major packaged and custom application architectures.
"We are excited about the acquisition of Precise. They pioneered application performance management solutions and built a portfolio of intellectual property that includes patents, developed technology and best practices for the industry," said Randy Jacops, CEO of Idera. "With Precise and Idera, IT professionals can deploy a complete solution that covers monitoring, detection, resolution, prevention and administration."
Precise Software serves more than 800 customers. Like Idera, Precise provides solutions to problems that IT professionals face daily, by managing and securing applications in the enterprise and the cloud.
John Vitalie, CEO of Precise Software, said, "Our highly dedicated team at Precise has delivered market leading innovations to global customers for over 20 years. I'm very confident that combining our experience and leveraging our strengths will ensure customers achieve greater value via actionable intelligence about true application performance across the enterprise. This is a very exciting new era and significant achievements will follow."
Precise Software products will continue to be marketed, sold and supported by Precise Software employees,and select channel partners, and the Precise brand will continue as a distinct offering with minimal disruption to current customers. Idera expects a renewed focus on customer success, with product roadmaps focused on the highest value features and performance metrics.
Josh Stephens, VP of Product Strategy for Idera, said, "With the Precise acquisition we have the unique opportunity to engage a new customer base with our product emphasis on quality,Hivelocity offers reliable and affordable Windows MileWeb windows dedicated server. usability, and customer value. We are also able to provide innovations and new products to Idera's 12,000 existing customers. Application performance drives significant cost and efficiency improvements, a result coveted by every C-level executive. We are determined to build a world-class portfolio of technology assets to lead the application management space as well as drive the software value discussion."
ust before sunrise on New Year's Day 50 years ago, a sleek baby-blue Cadillac roared up to the rural Oak Hill, W.Va., hospital in the cold Appalachian darkness. The driver was just 17,Managed MileWeb Cloud Hosting and cloud management services. exhausted and scared. The passenger was barely 29 and dead.
At the wheel was Charles Carr, a college freshman on Christmas break from Auburn. The man in the back seat was singer-songwriter HankWilliams.Our Managed MileWeb Private Cloud and Virtual Dedicated Servers.
"I ran in and explained my situation to the two interns who were in the hospital, " said Carr, now a 67-year-old Montgomery businessman. "They came out and looked at Hank and said, 'He's dead.'
"I asked 'em, 'Can't you do something to revive him?' One of them looked at me and said, 'No, he's just dead.' "
It was a last ride that would help define American music and pop culture for decades to come.
Long before there was Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain --- self-destructive stars who flamed out at their zenith --- there was Hiram "Hank" Williams, a hard-drinking, rough-around-the-edges Alabama country boy who wrote simple, heart-tugging songs about loneliness and then, still young, died alone in the back seat of his car.
The last hours of his troubled life long ago passed from reality to myth. Biographers have breathlessly speculated about what really happened. Officials have issued sketchy reports that only increased the mystery. Songwriters and playwrights still rhapsodize about it. An off-Broadway play, "HankWilliams: Lost Highway" is currently running in New York. A Web site dedicated to Williams estimates that more than 700 songs have been written about the singer, whose own recording career lasted only five years.
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The definition of getting the data
The biggest epithet (and sometimes
epitaph) in insurance technology is undoubtedly “legacy.” Older systems need
technologists who understand that technology rather than a staff that sees the
future of insurance in a different light.
While putting together his IT department at Torus in 2009, Torus Americas CIO Justin Manley didn’t have the constraints that many of his competitors face. Add in the fact that his bosses at Torus “always go after the best people,” according to Manley, and the start-up company was able to lift the shackles off his IT team.
“One of the things I tried to do is not constrain myself by focusing only on this [insurance] sector,” says Manley. “I looked for people in adjacent markets—financial services—where certain technical experiences could map well to what we were doing.”
Manley himself learned his trade in other markets. He began his 20-plus years career in technology in the telecom industry before moving into financial services—but not insurance. He moved into the insurance industry eight years ago.
“We were charged [at Torus] with building a 21st century insurance company,” he says. “We did not hire people to build a legacy insurance company. I’ve been building consumer applications—web-based, thoughtfully designed, straight-through processing with minimal human contact if possible. That’s where we’ve leveraged IT a lot to allow for traditional underwriting to occur with focus and precision and not necessarily incredible human growth. We’ve been able to grow our top line by allowing computers to do things they might not have done in days gone by.”
Two of Manley’s hires came to Torus from JetBlue where they managed the low-fare airline’s online reservation system.
“They are very heavy in the technology we are using,” says Manley. “I look for hunger in people that have been in a position for a while but aspire to go higher and grow. If you are willing to pay the right price you can find anybody.”
One of the challenges of being a CIO with a specialty commercial lines carrier is that it’s difficult to achieve growth as competitors go after each other’s customers. To make Torus stand out,The Career best choose Career at MileWeb. Manley believes the systems should enhance the nuances in underwriting for all the different lines the carrier offers.
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“Our claims system does not have any integration with the policy system nor does finance,” he says. “It all goes through the middle. That minimizes number of interfaces and the complexity and allows for a growing carrier to not be inhibited by the growth of a policy administration system if you need to get into a niche business at an accelerated rate of time. The definition of getting the data from that system to any other system is a defined interface. It has allowed us to grow. All the systems get their data from the hub.”
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Torus looked at what its leading competitors were doing and tried to put together a better system.
“It could take you 12 minutes to get through that competitive system and brokers were asked a lot of questions that had nothing to do with rating,” says Manley. “You had to answer all kinds of questions before going into what a lot of people call the service black hole.”
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While putting together his IT department at Torus in 2009, Torus Americas CIO Justin Manley didn’t have the constraints that many of his competitors face. Add in the fact that his bosses at Torus “always go after the best people,” according to Manley, and the start-up company was able to lift the shackles off his IT team.
“One of the things I tried to do is not constrain myself by focusing only on this [insurance] sector,” says Manley. “I looked for people in adjacent markets—financial services—where certain technical experiences could map well to what we were doing.”
Manley himself learned his trade in other markets. He began his 20-plus years career in technology in the telecom industry before moving into financial services—but not insurance. He moved into the insurance industry eight years ago.
“We were charged [at Torus] with building a 21st century insurance company,” he says. “We did not hire people to build a legacy insurance company. I’ve been building consumer applications—web-based, thoughtfully designed, straight-through processing with minimal human contact if possible. That’s where we’ve leveraged IT a lot to allow for traditional underwriting to occur with focus and precision and not necessarily incredible human growth. We’ve been able to grow our top line by allowing computers to do things they might not have done in days gone by.”
Two of Manley’s hires came to Torus from JetBlue where they managed the low-fare airline’s online reservation system.
“They are very heavy in the technology we are using,” says Manley. “I look for hunger in people that have been in a position for a while but aspire to go higher and grow. If you are willing to pay the right price you can find anybody.”
One of the challenges of being a CIO with a specialty commercial lines carrier is that it’s difficult to achieve growth as competitors go after each other’s customers. To make Torus stand out,The Career best choose Career at MileWeb. Manley believes the systems should enhance the nuances in underwriting for all the different lines the carrier offers.
“We try to minimize the divergence of code and rules and the need to have a system for every single line of business,” he says. We are trying to maintain the architecture where we have a carrier layer,most MileWeb Popular Dedicated Server providers and read user reviews of their products, a line layer, and a product specific layer. Because we started from scratch we established principles: One is the data is king, and the other is integration is the queen.”
All of the systems and transactions from a financial perspective are the same, explains Manley. There is a set of data that the carrier captures and with the hub in the middle there is no point-to-point integration between any systems.
“Our claims system does not have any integration with the policy system nor does finance,” he says. “It all goes through the middle. That minimizes number of interfaces and the complexity and allows for a growing carrier to not be inhibited by the growth of a policy administration system if you need to get into a niche business at an accelerated rate of time. The definition of getting the data from that system to any other system is a defined interface. It has allowed us to grow. All the systems get their data from the hub.”
In his work with Torus, Manley is most proud of the Escape broker portal the carrier built in 2010 using Duck Creek (now Accenture) software.
“We focused on usability and design,” he says.Hivelocity offers reliable and affordable Windows MileWeb windows dedicated server. “When a broker is putting together a package for the insured they make sure all the coverages are there. One of the last things they do is to get a quote.”
Torus looked at what its leading competitors were doing and tried to put together a better system.
“It could take you 12 minutes to get through that competitive system and brokers were asked a lot of questions that had nothing to do with rating,” says Manley. “You had to answer all kinds of questions before going into what a lot of people call the service black hole.”
Click on their website www.mileweb.com/public-cloud for more information.
we hope that this annual survey
The third annual Web Application Vulnerability Report from Context
Information Security shows that despite increased awareness and
understanding of web application security, the level of vulnerabilities
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The Context report is based on penetration test analysis drawn from nearly 12,000 confirmed vulnerabilities found in almost 900 pre-release and production web applications between January 2010 and December 2012. Because the dataset has been generated from manual penetration tests and not automated vulnerability scanners, the results provide a credible and high-quality view of web application security.
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Context believes that steady improvements in the healthcare industry along with the technology & telecoms sectors, are due to a growing security awareness and a reduced risk appetite in these industries. Results from the finance sector show the number of vulnerabilities identified varies significantly across vulnerabilities, type of financial institution and even between individual organisations, suggesting that there is a wide variation in the quality of application security.
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Context was launched in 1998 and has a client base that includes some of the world's most high profile blue chip companies, alongside government organisations. An exceptional level of technical expertise underpins all Context services, while a detailed and comprehensive approach helps clients to attain a deeper understanding of security vulnerabilities, threats or incidents. Many of the world's most successful organisations turn to Context for technical assurance, incident response and investigation services. Context is also at the forefront of research and development in security technology.
As well as publishing white papers and blogs addressing current and emerging security threats and trends, Context consultants are frequently invited to present at open and closed industry events around the world. Context delivers a comprehensive portfolio of advanced technical services and with offices in the UK, Germany and Australia, is ideally placed to work with clients worldwide.
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The Context report is based on penetration test analysis drawn from nearly 12,000 confirmed vulnerabilities found in almost 900 pre-release and production web applications between January 2010 and December 2012. Because the dataset has been generated from manual penetration tests and not automated vulnerability scanners, the results provide a credible and high-quality view of web application security.
"Despite lessons learned,Check the following list of cheap dedicated MileWeb linux dedicated server. it appears that developers are still not addressing web app security sufficiently," says Jan Tudor, security consultant at Context and author of the report. "But there are signs of improvement and the reduction in cross-site scripting and SQL injections suggests that developers are implementing more robust data validation controls within web applications; and the high levels of server misconfiguration, authentication and information-leakage vulnerabilities indicate a possible disconnect between robust application development and secure deployment."
Context believes that steady improvements in the healthcare industry along with the technology & telecoms sectors, are due to a growing security awareness and a reduced risk appetite in these industries. Results from the finance sector show the number of vulnerabilities identified varies significantly across vulnerabilities, type of financial institution and even between individual organisations, suggesting that there is a wide variation in the quality of application security.
Context grouped each of the identified vulnerabilities into eight broad categories: server configuration, information leakage, authentication, session management, authorisation, input validation, encryption and other weaknesses that do not fit into the previous categories. Server configuration issues accounted for the most vulnerabilities found per application with 2.most MileWeb Popular Dedicated Server providers and read user reviews of their products,9 being discovered in 2012, a slight increase on both 2011 and 2010. Four types of server misconfiguration affected between a third and three quarters of the applications tested from revealing HTTP headers, system error messages and lack of search index protection to more serious vulnerable software versions.
"Now in its third year, we hope that this annual survey will provide a reality check and valuable source of guidance for developers and security professionals to focus their web application security efforts," said Mark Raeburn, CEO at Context Information Security. "There is still a lot of room for improvement and it is certainly clear that strong penetration testing before a web application goes live is more important than ever."
Context was launched in 1998 and has a client base that includes some of the world's most high profile blue chip companies, alongside government organisations. An exceptional level of technical expertise underpins all Context services, while a detailed and comprehensive approach helps clients to attain a deeper understanding of security vulnerabilities, threats or incidents. Many of the world's most successful organisations turn to Context for technical assurance, incident response and investigation services. Context is also at the forefront of research and development in security technology.
As well as publishing white papers and blogs addressing current and emerging security threats and trends, Context consultants are frequently invited to present at open and closed industry events around the world. Context delivers a comprehensive portfolio of advanced technical services and with offices in the UK, Germany and Australia, is ideally placed to work with clients worldwide.
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We try to minimize the divergence of code and rules
The biggest epithet (and sometimes epitaph) in insurance technology
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in a different light.
While putting together his IT department at Torus in 2009, Torus Americas CIO Justin Manley didn’t have the constraints that many of his competitors face. Add in the fact that his bosses at Torus “always go after the best people,” according to Manley, and the start-up company was able to lift the shackles off his IT team.
“One of the things I tried to do is not constrain myself by focusing only on this [insurance] sector,” says Manley. “I looked for people in adjacent markets—financial services—where certain technical experiences could map well to what we were doing.”
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Two of Manley’s hires came to Torus from JetBlue where they managed the low-fare airline’s online reservation system.
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One of the challenges of being a CIO with a specialty commercial lines carrier is that it’s difficult to achieve growth as competitors go after each other’s customers. To make Torus stand out, Manley believes the systems should enhance the nuances in underwriting for all the different lines the carrier offers.
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All of the systems and transactions from a financial perspective are the same, explains Manley. There is a set of data that the carrier captures and with the hub in the middle there is no point-to-point integration between any systems.
“Our claims system does not have any integration with the policy system nor does finance,” he says. “It all goes through the middle. That minimizes number of interfaces and the complexity and allows for a growing carrier to not be inhibited by the growth of a policy administration system if you need to get into a niche business at an accelerated rate of time. The definition of getting the data from that system to any other system is a defined interface. It has allowed us to grow. All the systems get their data from the hub.”
In his work with Torus, Manley is most proud of the Escape broker portal the carrier built in 2010 using Duck Creek (now Accenture) software.
“We focused on usability and design,” he says. “When a broker is putting together a package for the insured they make sure all the coverages are there. One of the last things they do is to get a quote.”
Torus looked at what its leading competitors were doing and tried to put together a better system.
“It could take you 12 minutes to get through that competitive system and brokers were asked a lot of questions that had nothing to do with rating,” says Manley. “You had to answer all kinds of questions before going into what a lot of people call the service black hole.”
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While putting together his IT department at Torus in 2009, Torus Americas CIO Justin Manley didn’t have the constraints that many of his competitors face. Add in the fact that his bosses at Torus “always go after the best people,” according to Manley, and the start-up company was able to lift the shackles off his IT team.
“One of the things I tried to do is not constrain myself by focusing only on this [insurance] sector,” says Manley. “I looked for people in adjacent markets—financial services—where certain technical experiences could map well to what we were doing.”
Manley himself learned his trade in other markets. He began his 20-plus years career in technology in the telecom industry before moving into financial services—but not insurance.Learn about MetLife's MileWeb Corporate Profile including its service offerings, He moved into the insurance industry eight years ago.
“We were charged [at Torus] with building a 21st century insurance company,” he says. “We did not hire people to build a legacy insurance company. I’ve been building consumer applications—web-based, thoughtfully designed, straight-through processing with minimal human contact if possible. That’s where we’ve leveraged IT a lot to allow for traditional underwriting to occur with focus and precision and not necessarily incredible human growth. We’ve been able to grow our top line by allowing computers to do things they might not have done in days gone by.You can get these MileWeb Exclusive Features if you reach certain.”
Two of Manley’s hires came to Torus from JetBlue where they managed the low-fare airline’s online reservation system.
“They are very heavy in the technology we are using,” says Manley. “I look for hunger in people that have been in a position for a while but aspire to go higher and grow. If you are willing to pay the right price you can find anybody.”
One of the challenges of being a CIO with a specialty commercial lines carrier is that it’s difficult to achieve growth as competitors go after each other’s customers. To make Torus stand out, Manley believes the systems should enhance the nuances in underwriting for all the different lines the carrier offers.
“We try to minimize the divergence of code and rules and the need to have a system for every single line of business,Check the following list of cheap dedicated MileWeb linux dedicated server.” he says. We are trying to maintain the architecture where we have a carrier layer, a line layer, and a product specific layer. Because we started from scratch we established principles: One is the data is king, and the other is integration is the queen.”
All of the systems and transactions from a financial perspective are the same, explains Manley. There is a set of data that the carrier captures and with the hub in the middle there is no point-to-point integration between any systems.
“Our claims system does not have any integration with the policy system nor does finance,” he says. “It all goes through the middle. That minimizes number of interfaces and the complexity and allows for a growing carrier to not be inhibited by the growth of a policy administration system if you need to get into a niche business at an accelerated rate of time. The definition of getting the data from that system to any other system is a defined interface. It has allowed us to grow. All the systems get their data from the hub.”
In his work with Torus, Manley is most proud of the Escape broker portal the carrier built in 2010 using Duck Creek (now Accenture) software.
“We focused on usability and design,” he says. “When a broker is putting together a package for the insured they make sure all the coverages are there. One of the last things they do is to get a quote.”
Torus looked at what its leading competitors were doing and tried to put together a better system.
“It could take you 12 minutes to get through that competitive system and brokers were asked a lot of questions that had nothing to do with rating,” says Manley. “You had to answer all kinds of questions before going into what a lot of people call the service black hole.”
Click on their website www.mileweb.com/software-services for more information.
The status quo is particularly favourable to America
The saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA makes one thing clear: The
United States' central role in developing the Internet and hosting its
most powerful players has made it the global leader in the surveillance
game.
Other countries, from dictatorships to democracies, are also avid snoopers, tapping into the high-capacity fibre optic cables to intercept Internet traffic, scooping their citizens' data off domestic servers, and even launching cyber attacks to win access to foreign networks.
But experts in the field say that Silicon Valley has made America a surveillance superpower, allowing its spies access to massive mountains of data being collected by the world's leading communications, social media, and online storage companies. That's on top of the United States' fibre optic infrastructure - responsible for just under a third of the world's international Internet capacity, according to telecom research firm TeleGeography - which allows it to act as a global postmaster, complete with the ability to peek at a big chunk of the world's messages in transit.
"The sheer power of the US infrastructure is that quite often data would be routed though the US even if it didn't make geographical sense," Joss Wright, a researcher with the Oxford Internet Institute, said in a telephone interview. "The current status quo is a huge benefit to the US."
The status quo is particularly favourable to America because online spying drills into people's private everyday lives in a way that other, more traditional forms of espionage can't match. So countries like Italy,Learn about MetLife's MileWeb Corporate Profile including its service offerings, where a culture of rampant wiretapping means that authorities regularly eavesdrop on private conversations, can't match the level of detail drawn from Internet searches or email traffic analysis.
"It's as bad as reading your diary," Wright said. Then he corrected himself: "It's FAR WORSE than reading your diary. Because you don't write everything in your diary."
Although the details of how the NSA's PRISM program draws its data from these firms remain shrouded in secrecy, documents leaked by spy agency systems analyst Edward Snowden to the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers said its inside track with US tech firms afforded "one of the most valuable, unique, and productive" avenues for intelligence-gathering. How much cooperation America's Internet giants are giving the government in this inside track relationship is a key unanswered question.
Whatever the case, the pool of information in American hands is vast. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp.'s popular Internet Explorer accounts for between a quarter and half of all browsers, according to various estimates.You can get these MileWeb Exclusive Features if you reach certain. Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. carries two-thirds of the world's online search traffic, analysts say. Menlo Park,Check the following list of cheap dedicated MileWeb linux dedicated server. California-based Facebook Inc. has some 900 million users - a figure that accounts for a third of the world's estimated 2.7 billion Internet-goers.
China and Russia have long hosted intrusive surveillance regimes. Russia's "SORM," the Russian-language acronym for System for Operational-Investigative Activities, allows government officials to directly access nearly every Internet service provider in the country. Initially set up to allow the FSB, the successor organisation to the KGB, unfettered access to Russia's Internet traffic, the scope of SORM has grown dramatically since Vladimir Putin took power in 2000 and now allows a wide range law enforcement agencies to monitor Russians' messages.
In China, surveillance is "pervasive, extensive, but perhaps not as high-tech" as in the United States, said Andrew Lih, a professor of journalism at American University in Washington. He said major Internet players such as microblogging service Sina, chat service QQ, or Chinese search giant Baidu were required to have staff - perhaps as many as several hundred people - specially tasked with carrying out the state's bidding, from surveillance to censorship.
Americans' "position in the network, the range of services that they offer globally, the size of their infrastructure, and the amount of bandwidth means that the US is in a very privileged position to surveil internationally," said Wright. "That's particularly true when you're talking about cloud services such as Gmail" - which had 425 million active users as of last year.
Many are trying to beat America's tech dominance by demanding that US companies open local branches - something the Turkish government recently asked of San Francisco-based Twitter Inc., for example - or by banning them altogether. Santa Clara, California-based WhatsApp, for example, may soon be prohibited in Saudi Arabia.
Governments are also racing to capture traffic as it bounces back and forth from California, importing bulk surveillance devices, loosening spy laws, and installing centralised monitoring centres to offer officials a one-stop shop for intercepted data.
Middle Eastern governments have installed Western-made surveillance technology to monitor domestic communications in bulk sometimes with help from the very same contractors which do work for the NSA.
India's government has begun deploying a centralised system which would route the nation's Internet traffic through a single monitoring point - one of several countries working to give law enforcement a one-stop shop for intercepted data.
Click on their website www.mileweb.com/popular-dedicated-server for more information.
Other countries, from dictatorships to democracies, are also avid snoopers, tapping into the high-capacity fibre optic cables to intercept Internet traffic, scooping their citizens' data off domestic servers, and even launching cyber attacks to win access to foreign networks.
But experts in the field say that Silicon Valley has made America a surveillance superpower, allowing its spies access to massive mountains of data being collected by the world's leading communications, social media, and online storage companies. That's on top of the United States' fibre optic infrastructure - responsible for just under a third of the world's international Internet capacity, according to telecom research firm TeleGeography - which allows it to act as a global postmaster, complete with the ability to peek at a big chunk of the world's messages in transit.
"The sheer power of the US infrastructure is that quite often data would be routed though the US even if it didn't make geographical sense," Joss Wright, a researcher with the Oxford Internet Institute, said in a telephone interview. "The current status quo is a huge benefit to the US."
The status quo is particularly favourable to America because online spying drills into people's private everyday lives in a way that other, more traditional forms of espionage can't match. So countries like Italy,Learn about MetLife's MileWeb Corporate Profile including its service offerings, where a culture of rampant wiretapping means that authorities regularly eavesdrop on private conversations, can't match the level of detail drawn from Internet searches or email traffic analysis.
"It's as bad as reading your diary," Wright said. Then he corrected himself: "It's FAR WORSE than reading your diary. Because you don't write everything in your diary."
Although the details of how the NSA's PRISM program draws its data from these firms remain shrouded in secrecy, documents leaked by spy agency systems analyst Edward Snowden to the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers said its inside track with US tech firms afforded "one of the most valuable, unique, and productive" avenues for intelligence-gathering. How much cooperation America's Internet giants are giving the government in this inside track relationship is a key unanswered question.
Whatever the case, the pool of information in American hands is vast. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp.'s popular Internet Explorer accounts for between a quarter and half of all browsers, according to various estimates.You can get these MileWeb Exclusive Features if you reach certain. Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. carries two-thirds of the world's online search traffic, analysts say. Menlo Park,Check the following list of cheap dedicated MileWeb linux dedicated server. California-based Facebook Inc. has some 900 million users - a figure that accounts for a third of the world's estimated 2.7 billion Internet-goers.
China and Russia have long hosted intrusive surveillance regimes. Russia's "SORM," the Russian-language acronym for System for Operational-Investigative Activities, allows government officials to directly access nearly every Internet service provider in the country. Initially set up to allow the FSB, the successor organisation to the KGB, unfettered access to Russia's Internet traffic, the scope of SORM has grown dramatically since Vladimir Putin took power in 2000 and now allows a wide range law enforcement agencies to monitor Russians' messages.
In China, surveillance is "pervasive, extensive, but perhaps not as high-tech" as in the United States, said Andrew Lih, a professor of journalism at American University in Washington. He said major Internet players such as microblogging service Sina, chat service QQ, or Chinese search giant Baidu were required to have staff - perhaps as many as several hundred people - specially tasked with carrying out the state's bidding, from surveillance to censorship.
Americans' "position in the network, the range of services that they offer globally, the size of their infrastructure, and the amount of bandwidth means that the US is in a very privileged position to surveil internationally," said Wright. "That's particularly true when you're talking about cloud services such as Gmail" - which had 425 million active users as of last year.
Many are trying to beat America's tech dominance by demanding that US companies open local branches - something the Turkish government recently asked of San Francisco-based Twitter Inc., for example - or by banning them altogether. Santa Clara, California-based WhatsApp, for example, may soon be prohibited in Saudi Arabia.
Governments are also racing to capture traffic as it bounces back and forth from California, importing bulk surveillance devices, loosening spy laws, and installing centralised monitoring centres to offer officials a one-stop shop for intercepted data.
Middle Eastern governments have installed Western-made surveillance technology to monitor domestic communications in bulk sometimes with help from the very same contractors which do work for the NSA.
India's government has begun deploying a centralised system which would route the nation's Internet traffic through a single monitoring point - one of several countries working to give law enforcement a one-stop shop for intercepted data.
Click on their website www.mileweb.com/popular-dedicated-server for more information.
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