Discrimination In the IT world you are judged off of your experience. My age has limited my chance for experience. So, in the IT world where I am surrounded by 30-45 year old men who have been doing the job way longer than I have, my voice isn’t heard much. The ideas I pitch get crumpled up and thrown away. I feel like a henchman who comes up with a great idea; then, my boss comes and takes credit for the thinking of it first. There was one time where their discrimination against me blinded them from seeing something really important, and they regretted it. I work Cyber-Security for the U.S. Air Force. My job title is Malware Analyzer. This means I break down any packet of data that comes through our firewall and is flagged. So I can determine if it is malicious. If it is malicious I then have to have a member of my team review the packet, and if they concur, we block that content from touching our network ever again. This job isn’t the most glorifying Cyber-Security job, but it …show more content…
My team consists of 30-45 year old men who really love it and have stuck with it their whole career. I say this job isn’t glorifying though because most of the packets we see aren’t malicious at all. They mainly consist of false alarms. This makes us very bored, very fast. Sometimes, it forces people to lose alertness, and when you’re not alert; the attacker gets in. Well, it was the day before Christmas Eve. The president had declared it a half-day for all DOD employees, but we are an operation squadron. This means we don’t get to take half-day and, as you would guess, this made everyone a wee bit angry. I didn’t care because they were paying holiday hours which meant more money. So, I kept diligently doing my job. At about 3 in the afternoon, I came across a malicious packet. I passed it on to my team leader for review, who
On Nov 2013, the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) awarded the contract to “modernize” its existing custom developed application Cadet Administrative Management Information System (CAMIS) II to the Solers Corporation (Solers Corporation, 2016). CAMIS was developed over several years and began to encompass support for many disparate business processes at the Academy, but primarily served as a Student Information/Management System. This modernization effort or CAMIS III was the third iteration of moving CAMIS from a legacy system to a new platform. Almost 2 years later: Mar 2016, this project ended with the government decision to discontinue the modernization effort. This was done by primarily not exercising option years and stopping funding on the modernization development line item of the contract. (Paulson, 2015) Despite modernization effort ending, the government continued to support the CAMIS III operations and support portion of the contract, as well as the legacy CAMIS II contract. This paper attempts to analyze why this software project failed, based on the personal experiences and perspectives from the overall combined team and attempts to understand why. The major reasons for failure included: gross underestimates (scope, cost, and schedule). However, there were opportunities to achieve a better outcome. These opportunities were failures by the program manager, vendor team, and management stakeholder expectations.
While working as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Army Materiel Command, the command was under constant attack by hackers. The Army’s current network defense system was woefully inadequate for protecting the commands 140 locations worldwide. After sustaining a couple of very high profile attacks using these tools, it became evident that something else was needed. One of the command’s subordinate commands was the Army Research Labs and is on one the foremost research labs in the world. One of the labs mission was Cyber Defense and came under my preview as it program manager. The lab had developed several cyber security tools and had been testing them very successfully on a several platforms. The power of this tool
- Information systems Technician Representative responsible for submitting 23 trouble tickets, resulting in 17 users receiving non-secured internet protocol router/secured internet protocol router ONE-Net accounts and six computer discrepancies being
Did you know that the Air Force Academy only has a 12.3% acceptance rate? Because the Air Force Academy has such a competitive admission policy, candidates need to be physically fit, well educated, and have a vision of what to do as a graduate.
In 2003, I was recruited to set up and lead a new cyber security initiative for the Army Materiel Command (AMC), a 53 Billion dollar year logistics command that serves as the army version of amazon for the army’s current inventory of weapons, supplies and vehicles. AMC, at this time, had over a 100k workforce spread across 140 locations worldwide. During this timeframe, the Department of Defense was still trying to define Cyber Security and mature the process they had in place. DOD was a large target and AMC ranked high due to the research we performed for the Army and the DoD. The attacks came from all types of hackers ranging from, high school and college kids to state sponsored attacks using everything from off the shelf scripts to specialized tools designed to specifically break down our security systems. At this time my command had one of the worst records in the army for cyber security incidents. These attacks were, due to their ferocity and complexity, having a devastating impact on our ability to support the war efforts in Iraq and some attacks resulted in exfiltration of sensitive but unclassified data. AMC, during this timeframe, owned 50% of the Army’s computing power and this took the form of workstations, servers, applications and communication circuits so the impact was significant. Coupled with these ongoing attacks, the Army changed the way security incidents were being reported, directing all incidents to be reported to the Chief Of Staff (COS) of the
I had the privilege to interview a great leader , Soldier, husband and father; Staff Sergeant Andre Sinclair. Staff Sergeant Sinclair is the team NCOIC / Network Centric Operations Industry Council Interoperability for the white team of the Georgia Army National Guard. His organization Affiliation is the Army National Guard. I selected my husband because he is a good and caring person. Always willing to go above and beyond to help someone. As a leader in the military he is contributed to a decisive role in the history of the United States. Because of my husband 's interest in computers he decided to join the team of Cyber Network defender .He had specialized computer network defense duties, including infrastructure support, incident response, auditing and managing. As a cyber network
That seems to be the first time the iPremier was attacked due to their desperate situation. They did not know how to handle it, which explains the lack of training and emergency procedures. The company was more focused on profit than protecting their customer's information. If I were Bob, I would avoid panic and stay focused; assemble a team and start the incident response plan; start an investigation to define the details on the extent and nature of the attack; analyze and assess the origins of the violation; draw up a plan for the incident in question; disclose the incident to the parties involved and notify the authorities; and review the incident response plan, strategy, and security policies.
In the mid-1900’s, in the American South, discrimination based on both race and gender was blatantly recognized as socially appropriate, and the attitudes of majority factions with such norms in mind were reflected in numerous instances of public policy. One of such instances was a public policy which enabled a Woolsworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, to forbid people of color from sitting at the store’s lunch counter. In response to the oppressive nature of this policy, four black students ignored the rule which restricted them—an act of civil disobedience which was erupting all over the region—and took seats at the forbidden lunch counter, demanding to be served. Such instances, labeled ‘sit ins,’ were often recognized as illegal behavior and were treated as such by local law enforcement, who arrested those who resisted their oppression. When questioned during a televised debate as to how he could advocate for citizens of a society to break the law, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. responded with a statement which echoed the demands for justice across the world, a statement to which he was sure that his opponent would have to agree: that “an unjust law is no law at all.”
Why do you think mainstream media report on individual, interpersonal cases of racism far more than systematic and institutionalized forms of racial injustice?
Today’s population of American is made up of people who came from variety of countries with a very different economic, religious and social backgrounds. We are all have right to privately practice our own religions or not practice at all. Racism and religion are issues that were brought to our society not long time ago. On the example of story of “America can’t breathe” by Luiza Ch. Savage and “Islamophobia” by Laila Lalami we can clearly see that discrimination exists and it makes America unhealthy. What events and issues formed the basis that racism and discrimination are the pressing problems in nowadays?
How Rashon Fenderson influence me to join the U.S. Army. Being a recent graduate of Barclay Career School in South Orange, NJ as a medical assistant in 1990. At
As a young woman, I have experienced inequity because of my gender. This isn’t something rare or new. I could write pages on the discrimination myself and women I know personally have experienced. Throughout history, women have been ignored and oppressed. Women have experienced the fear of assault and harassment. Women have experienced their rights being taken away while all men were created equal. Women have experienced inadequate health care due to an injustice in our own male flooded government. Even in our own military women have experienced prejudice with not being able to hold combat positions. Throughout history, women have been overlooked and discounted. Women have supported male historical figures without getting recognition and have
The older and more grounded I become in the middle age phase of my life, the more aware I am of the person I have become and how the choices made both myself and my family have formed what is known as “My Life”. My family traditions, upbringing and values have influenced my biological, cultural views and values allowing me to formulate a life, principles, and a family similar in some aspects to my family, who raised me, while other aspects are astoundingly different. With my life and career goals very different from that of my parents’ lives and their expectations these influences by class, culture, and ethical teachings are
I have both faced and witnessed sexual/gender discrimination throughout my life. Growing up, I heard a slew of offensive stereotypes and misogynistic comments from family members, media sources, and strangers; some of the most serious included slurs towards women in politics and government or comments that women are weaker and less athletic than men. Rather than let this discrimination discourage me, I use it as motivation to continue to excel and pursue my many passions. I have participated in challenging STEM-related courses my entire life; I thoroughly enjoy sports and physical activity; and I plan to make a career out of the military. Furthermore, I have learned to take pride in what I have already achieved and to always strive to improve.
I, George Coleman, allege that I was harassed and treated differently and adversely by my first line supervisor, Ms. Luster, while employed at Hinds County Human Resources Agency. I am alleging supervisor’s discrimination protected service members due to my military service and known disability status in accordance. This is accordance with the Veterans Opportunity Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act of 2011, Family and Medical Leave Act, and Americans with Disabilities Act. I am alleging discrimination, based on my gender, male; age, 47 (DOB, 1-30-1969), disability status and as retaliation for informing her of my intent to file formal discrimination on August 14, 2017, after this action the retaliation only