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Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Hi Brou,
I agree that Denver can be a good choice. As far as Tulsa is concerned, the reason why I think it’s risky as it falls in the Tornado Alley, which basically means that tornadoes more than 15 can be expected on an average in that alley.
This should help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley#/media/File:Tornado_Alley.gif
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Abhay V Kshirsagar commented on the post, Week 6 Questions, on the site 8 years ago
Priya,
I think in a scenario where Flipkart and Amazon are providing COD service to their customers in India. An attacker can just get an access of someone’s phone and completely compromise the COD service by entering OTPs as they come in. Probably order a lot of goods, as you mentioned, in bulk and the company will be left with delivering g…[Read more] -
Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Correct. I definitely see your point here. Since we are talking about relationships between sales people with their clients, I guess that the sales team can also use that to give a friendly reminder to the client’s purchasing department about the outstanding payments.
Great, thanks, Paul.
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Abhay V Kshirsagar commented on the post, Week 6 Questions, on the site 8 years ago
I absolutely agree with the point about relationship between sales team and customer you brought up. When customers see someone from the sales team, customers will certainly wonder if the sales person is there to collect money or offer a product. But, a sales person can indeed establish relationships with the customer’s purchasing department and…[Read more]
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Abhay V Kshirsagar commented on the post, Week 6 Questions, on the site 8 years ago
Great points guys. I do agree that job of the sales team is to bring more business. I think setting up an Account Management team whose job is to manage customer accounts and are responsible for collections should help; maybe they are overseen by a finance manager?
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Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Paul,
I was under the impression that accounting operation came under financial operation? I maybe wrong. Anyway,
I agree, the finance department should be responsible to track and acquire outstanding payments. The sales department’s job is to bring business. Don’t you think that sales will be wasting time if they start calling customers for…[Read more] -
Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Assume you’re an outside organization with goal to cause negative things to happen to an organization’s Order to Cash (OTC) process. Where would you attack it? Explain Why and How?
Let’s take an example, a company like Amazon Inc. who carries O2C process on a regular basis. If I were to attack, I would target the order management process. Typ…[Read more]
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Abhay V Kshirsagar commented on the post, Week 6 Questions, on the site 8 years ago
Appreciate the input everyone.
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Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
World’s largest 1 Tbps DDoS Attack launched from 152,000 hacked Smart Devices
If anyone owns a smart device like smart TVs, thermostats, etc. there is a good possibility that they were a part of a botnet team that was used to launch the biggest DDoS attack, with peaks over 1 Tbps of traffic.
The victim was a hosting provider named OVH in…[Read more] -
Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Binu,
You’re right. The second control sounds more of a detective control to me as well. If you have the matching system installed on every milestone (every 10% completion, for eg), this can give the management some idea about the theft area.
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Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Fred, Binu,
Do you guys think it will be better not to have a fixed value, like $50, and have the customer credit card information as a perquisite for reservations and a control for the hotel to mitigate theft? That way, you can just bill the customer for whatever items that are missing; and importantly, have this in the contract.
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Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Surprise inventory audit can actually yield results that the auditors might not get if they announce their visits. Inventory valuation fraud comes to my mind that the management with an intention to fraud uses to manipulate the numbers. The way it works is that if an organization has multiple inventory warehouses, and the management knows where…[Read more]
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Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Yulun,
I agree. Human errors as we all know are inevitable and the only way to mitigate them are to make processes automated or have a supervision. Data entry errors can also be resolved if we have the real time inventory updating at Point of sale.
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Abhay V Kshirsagar commented on the post, Week 5 Questions, on the site 8 years ago
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Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
1. As consumers we encounter (knowingly and unknowingly) inventory controls all the time (e.g. locked jewelry cases). What are 1-2 less obvious inventory control measures used. Are these measures effective?
Another control is to use the most effective method to calculate the safety stock levels rather than going with the simple thumb rule,…[Read more]
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Abhay V Kshirsagar commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 8 years ago
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Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
The advantages of VPN are as follows:
Security:
Local security applications like antiviruses and firewalls are not enough to protect. An external solution that provides a separate layer of protection is needed and this is where VPN comes in the picture. As a general rule, no network should be considered safe, especially the public networks…[Read more] -
Abhay V Kshirsagar commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 8 years ago
Dan,
In addition to transparency, Transport Layer also provides reliability by making sure that when data is broken into different packets, they are also received in the correct sequence to by the receiver.
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Abhay V Kshirsagar posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Ian,
Great post. May I add, for the Transport Layer, in addition to what you said, the layer also determines the packet sizes. These packet sizes are decided on the basis of different protocols. Some protocols require smaller packets than others and in that case Transport Layer will break the packets down.
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Abhay V Kshirsagar commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 8 years ago
Brou,
Interesting that you talked about domain routing in Network Layer. Since even the routers that we have at home, have a job of finding the best and the most reliable path for packets to travel. I am wondering if the routers are involved mainly on the Network layer.
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