Wenlin Zhou

How important is it for people responsible for general I/T controls (e.g. Network, workstation, Server and data base security) to know about how the ERP system works? What is one (1) specific thing they should know?

Network Security Task Force consulted with IT security professionals on campus about concerns with the current state of security…[Read more]

As we continue to learn about business processes and ERP systems we often discuss financial or account related terms and concepts. How much finance and accounting knowledge should IT personnel supporting business applications know and learn? Explain

Financial management is a crucial aspect of any thriving business. Profit maximization, or…[Read more]

I agree with you. I searched google, and the results did not help me solve this step 7.

Log back into your VM and launch “Group Policy Manager” and enable “Allow users to connect remotely by using Remote Desktop Services” as a policy for all computers in this network (Provide Screenshot).

Question： What kind of screenshot should be provided? Is it Group Policy Manager screenshot?

PwC: Security is No Longer an IT Cost Center

Many organizations no longer view cybersecurity as a barrier to change, nor as an IT cost.That’s the word from the Global State of Information Security Survey 2017 from PwC US, which found that there is a distinct shift in how organizations view cybersecurity, with forward-thinking organizations u…[Read more]

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), also sometimes called a transient electromagnetic disturbance, is a short burst of electromagnetic energy. Such a pulse’s origination may be a natural occurrence or man-made and can occur as a radiated, electric or magnetic field or a conducted electric current, depending on the source. Caused by the high-altitude…[Read more]

I agree with you. The credit check is very important. What’s more, the protection of the credit card information is also very important. If data leakage, it will be harmful to company reputation, and cause fraud to customers.

I strongly agree with you. the accounts receivable( billing) is very important. Company should be collected the amounts. If the company keep the healthy relationship with customers, the sales can provide a friendly call for the customers asking if there is any concern and get an idea why payment is not done.

Absolutely, the finance is very important in the organization. The Accounts Receivable should be collected, because even a profitable firm can be forced to close by the resulting cash crunch. If the firm has well-designed policies governing its credit, billing and collections procedures and faithfully follows practices that work, AR will not be a…[Read more]

Controls are important in all the OTC processes including invoicing and collections. What would be different in the controls of a purely domestic US company vs. an international company? Give 1 – 2 specific examples.

The answer lies in the differences across borders. Nation-states generally have unique government systems, laws and r…[Read more]

Who in an organization should care more about the collections process – Finance or Sales? Explain

I think Both should be concerned. Finance should own the process of tracking receivables and flagging any potential issues. However once a problem has been surfaced by accounting, sales usually has a responsibility to take action to collect, u…[Read more]

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?

The ability to enable risk based collections management depends on access to many different data elements, and mechanisms to generate scoring of those elements. The data elements and…[Read more]

Article: “Hack of Half a Billion Records Takes Shine Off Yahoo’s Data Trove”

Yahoo on Thursday disclosed that a data breach in late 2014 resulted in the theft of information from at least 500 million customer accounts. It appears that state-sponsored hackers carried out the attack. Account information compromised includes names, email…[Read more]

Absolutely, I agree with you. The company can segregation of duties to monitor the inventory. Some employees took responsibility for purchasing parts, and others can take charge for the physical counters.

I agree with you. The layer has two types. One is host layers, which were including Application layer, Presentation layer, Session layer, and Transport layer. Another one is Media layers, which were including Network layer, Data link layer, and Physical layer.

Of course, I agree with you. VPNs have also other benefits depending on the VPN service provider you are using. For example, some VPN service providers allow their users to share more easily and faster information between themselves, play games and perform any other activity as if they are within a local area network (LAN).

I strongly agree with you, VPN can protect your privacy. To protect your privacy you should use VPN again. Thus, with VPN whenever you visit web sites, listen to radio, chat, etc. you will be identified with the VPN provider, i.e. his IP address, location etc. Essentially, your own IP address and personal details will remain hidden.

Absolutely, I agree with you. Security is one of the biggest challengers in today’s interconnected world. Local security solutions such as antivirus, firewall, etc., are not sufficient to protect you unfortunately. A separate, external solution is needed to protect the communication from you to the outside world.That’s where VPN comes to pla…[Read more]

What are the advantages of VPN?

The advantages of using a VPN is that content you access on the internet and anything sent to a website is encrypted and routed through vpn. When a connection is encrypted it stops people from monitoring your connection. So all data send to website can’t be read by anyone except the VPN provider. When a…[Read more]

What is OSI model? What’s the main function of each OSI layer?

The Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model) is a conceptual model that characterizes and standardizes the communication functions of a telecommunication or computing system without regard to their underlying internal structure and technology. Its goal is the i…[Read more]