A series of books have been published by DG RELEX on the topic of EU conflict prevention, crisis management and peace building. The aim is to ensure target groups are kept well informed about developments in EU crisis response capacity and the actions undertaken by the EU in conflicts around the world.
Prepare for conditions that exacerbate stress during and immediately after incidents
Integrate best practices into emergency planning
Manage hyper-stress for emergency communication responders
Preparing for the Unexpected with The Town of East Haddam, CTEverbridge, Inc.
Notification process best practices from The Town of East Haddam, CT
How to prepare for the emergency no one thinks will happen
How to use a mobile solution to your advantage as a part of your incident response
Prepare for conditions that exacerbate stress during and immediately after incidents
Integrate best practices into emergency planning
Manage hyper-stress for emergency communication responders
Preparing for the Unexpected with The Town of East Haddam, CTEverbridge, Inc.
Notification process best practices from The Town of East Haddam, CT
How to prepare for the emergency no one thinks will happen
How to use a mobile solution to your advantage as a part of your incident response
. Job Description
• Handling entire end to end bulk recruitment cycle.
.Manpower Need Analysis, Sourcing Candidates through job portals, consultancies, direct application, advertisements, campus recruitment.& Head Hunting.
Salary Negotiations.
Basic HR operations like taking care of new employees joining formalities, induction, exit formalities etc
Maintaining all HR MIS.Employee Engagement,Employee Relations.
Statutory Compliance .
Taking care of PF,Medical, ESI of the employees,
Grievance Handling, Performance Appraisa
Leave Management and other HR & Admin related job.
Information Sharing, Dot Connecting and Intelligence Failures.docxannettsparrow
Information Sharing, Dot Connecting and Intelligence Failures:
Revisiting Conventional Wisdom
By
Russell Travers
Deputy Director, Information Sharing and Knowledge Development
National Counterterrorism Center
This paper, written in August 2009, was submitted to the Director of National Intelligence
2009 Galileo Awards Program. The Galileo Awards Program is an annual Intelligence
Community-wide competition designed to encourage and recognize innovative workforce
ideas that address current challenges and help shape the future of U.S. Intelligence.
All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are those of the author and do not
reflect the official positions or views of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) or
any other U.S. Government agency. Nothing in the contents should be construed as
implying U.S. Government or NCTC endorsement of the author’s views. This material has
been reviewed to prevent the disclosure of classified information.
The year is 2014. The Intelligence Community is ten years into its efforts to
implement the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA). While
change has been evident on many fronts, nothing was more closely identified with
intelligence reform than information sharing; ever since the 9/11 Commission
declared that “the biggest impediment to all-source analysis – to a greater
likelihood of connecting the dots – is the human or systemic resistance to sharing
information”1, the two had been inextricably linked. And while we were pushing
more electrons than ever before, dissatisfaction continued: in 2014, as in 2009,
no analyst in the IC had effective access to all information; analysts in many parts
of the Community complained that they couldn’t get operational traffic or law
enforcement information; we had little ability to do large scale processing of
foreign and domestic data sets; our non Federal partners were still dissatisfied
with the quality of information sharing. A dizzying array of directives had been
issued. Arbitration procedures had been established. And yet organizations
weren’t getting the information they claimed to “need.” Legitimate issues
coexisted with tripe. According to the critics, we still couldn’t connect those dots.
The reality, however, was far more complex: the only question was whether it
took a major intelligence failure to realize that fact.
This is the path we’re on. We will continue to hear claims that information sharing has
“barely improved since 9/11.” Such hyperbole is unmitigated nonsense. The robust sharing of
information between and among the key organizations has undoubtedly contributed to the fact
that we haven’t suffered a major attack. And by any objective standard, the level of sharing
1 The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States; U.S. Government Print.
OSINT Forum – Week 5For this forum, you are to answer one or mor.docxloganta
OSINT Forum – Week 5
For this forum, you are to answer
one or more
of the questions listed below. The original post must be a minimum of
250
words. Additionally, you must post two peer responses on a classmate’s original post. Responses should be a minimum of
200
words each and include direct questions.
Questions:
- How have the authors detailed the value of open sources. Discuss one or more values. Provide real-time examples to your discussion.
- Explain the importance of open source information and the intelligence cycle.
- Why should intelligence personnel who have access to classified information should not produce unclassified products on the same subjects?
- What are the downsides of open source information?
- Identify sources one can go to collect open source information. Provide details for each source identified.
Reading & Resources:
Collecting Open Source Intelligence via Tailored Information Delivery Systems
Producing Intelligence from Open Sources
NATO OSINT Handbook
(pages 1-35)
The Downside of Open Source Intelligence
Student Response #1 – Nicholas
The Intelligence cycle is what drives collection from every intelligence discipline. And that is especially true with OSINT. First there must be requirements to drive the intelligence cycle. With the requirements in place, the analysts will have an idea of what they are going to collect on, when the requirements are known they will be further scrutinized by the planning and direction phase which is led by the National Security Branch (Intelligence nd, np). Once the analyst is aware of the requirements and the planning/direction has taken place, they can now collect raw information through open source. Once the analyst gathers the information, they process and exploit it into a usable form. Once the information has been sorted and placed in a workable form, the analyst will now turn the raw information into intelligence (Intelligence nd np). Last and not least, once the information is turned into intelligence it will be put in the correct format to fit their customer’s needs. This is why the intelligence cycle is very important for open source information and the analysis of this information into intelligence. The steps above are pulled from the basic intelligence cycle, while the intelligence cycle that focuses primarily on OSINT (according to NATO) only uses planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, searching anonymously on the web, production, and dissemination and evaluation (Kernan 2012, 15). The steps are all similar, but the steps NATO points out for OSINT is more specific to OSINT, rather than every collection effort.
Since a lot of us have spoke about deception techniques and some of the flaws involved with OSINT, I figured I’d also add in some opinions/information about the downsides of open source information. Although OSINT is viewed valuable in most cases, reliability issues arise from proliferation on individual cites th.
In November 2011 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the General Assembly was briefed on the progress of Global Pulse, a UN innovation initiative harnessing real-time data and new technologies ("Big Data") to protect vulnerable populations. This book is a record of that event and presents 1) emerging techniques in information technology that make Global Pulse possible, 2) preparatory work in Indonesia and Uganda for launch of the first Pulse Labs, 3) the results of five research projects to test concepts underlying the application of real-time data and global development and 4) the roadmap for UN Global Pulse
This report was developed by PSFK Labs for the United Nations to help them understand how technology, including social media, could help organizations understand what is happening to their most vulnerable populations in real-time.
We intend for it to be openly shared around the globe between communities, development agencies, academia and other organizations. Its aim is to highlight the opportunities that exist for organizations, large or small. In particular, the “left field” examples of data capture and use are published in hope of showcasing how organizations can leap- frog IT investment and still significantly improve the monitoring capabilities.
For a free download of this report please visit http://www.psfk.com/future-of-real-time
In 17th century Europe all observable swans were white and by extension all swans were therefore assumed to be white. No non-white swan had ever been observed. In the 18th century, however, black swans were discovered in Western Australia and that discovery undermined the statistics of swans to that date. Previously, the “risk” of a Black Swan was essentially nil, but upon recognition that the improbable was not the same as the impossible the possibility of Black Swans became more likely.
What had changed that made Black Swans more probable? Simply put our perceptions were broadened. In this article we will look at large programs, what creates the possibility of Black Swans and what are some of the new risks we must pay attention to.
Possibility of Black Swans
Program Management is very much about meeting the challenges of scale and complexity. These challenges largely focus on the management of known knowns and known unknowns. But large programs by their very nature move into a new neighborhood where previously rare unknown unknowns are more prevalent. In effect large program risks grow in new non linear ways. What causes this growth? Simply put:
- Scale and complexity move you into a new neighborhood where black swans may be more common
- Scaling drives non linear and non correlated growth in risks
- Complexity masks existing risks
- Complexity creates new risks
So what are Black Swans?
My paper in this month\'s issue of PM World Today tries to provide some guidance for those responsible for large engineering & construction programs.
Equity Dilemmas for Psychological Operations and Public Information in Milita...Jeffrey Malone
I gave this presentation at the 'Information and Technology: The Double Edged Sword' conference in Canberra, 19 February 2001. The presentation discusses the tensions between military information operations (with a focus on psychological operations) and public information, in the context of the evolving global media environment.
Presentation to National Academy of Science workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media. I argued that the citizen science model, in which volunteers contribute to substantive scientific research, is a great model for how to involve the general public in making accurate, actionable social media posts (Twitter, Twitvid, Facebook) that first responders can use to direct their efforts in a disaster.
Intelligence Led Policing for Police Decision MakersDeborah Osborne
Intelligence-Led Policing for Decision-Makers Webinar
Audio is at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Deborah-Osborne/2009/09/23/Intelligence-Led-Policing-for-Decision-Makers-Webinar
This webinar, designed for law enforcement managers, covers the following topics:
* Intelligence: what it is, what it is not, and what it can be
* The role of the decision-maker in the intelligence cycle
* Defining Intelligence-Led Policing and the 3 i's cycle
* The 7 stages of Intelligence-Led Policing
* Resources for learning more about Intelligence-Led Policing
. Job Description
• Handling entire end to end bulk recruitment cycle.
.Manpower Need Analysis, Sourcing Candidates through job portals, consultancies, direct application, advertisements, campus recruitment.& Head Hunting.
Salary Negotiations.
Basic HR operations like taking care of new employees joining formalities, induction, exit formalities etc
Maintaining all HR MIS.Employee Engagement,Employee Relations.
Statutory Compliance .
Taking care of PF,Medical, ESI of the employees,
Grievance Handling, Performance Appraisa
Leave Management and other HR & Admin related job.
Information Sharing, Dot Connecting and Intelligence Failures.docxannettsparrow
Information Sharing, Dot Connecting and Intelligence Failures:
Revisiting Conventional Wisdom
By
Russell Travers
Deputy Director, Information Sharing and Knowledge Development
National Counterterrorism Center
This paper, written in August 2009, was submitted to the Director of National Intelligence
2009 Galileo Awards Program. The Galileo Awards Program is an annual Intelligence
Community-wide competition designed to encourage and recognize innovative workforce
ideas that address current challenges and help shape the future of U.S. Intelligence.
All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are those of the author and do not
reflect the official positions or views of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) or
any other U.S. Government agency. Nothing in the contents should be construed as
implying U.S. Government or NCTC endorsement of the author’s views. This material has
been reviewed to prevent the disclosure of classified information.
The year is 2014. The Intelligence Community is ten years into its efforts to
implement the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA). While
change has been evident on many fronts, nothing was more closely identified with
intelligence reform than information sharing; ever since the 9/11 Commission
declared that “the biggest impediment to all-source analysis – to a greater
likelihood of connecting the dots – is the human or systemic resistance to sharing
information”1, the two had been inextricably linked. And while we were pushing
more electrons than ever before, dissatisfaction continued: in 2014, as in 2009,
no analyst in the IC had effective access to all information; analysts in many parts
of the Community complained that they couldn’t get operational traffic or law
enforcement information; we had little ability to do large scale processing of
foreign and domestic data sets; our non Federal partners were still dissatisfied
with the quality of information sharing. A dizzying array of directives had been
issued. Arbitration procedures had been established. And yet organizations
weren’t getting the information they claimed to “need.” Legitimate issues
coexisted with tripe. According to the critics, we still couldn’t connect those dots.
The reality, however, was far more complex: the only question was whether it
took a major intelligence failure to realize that fact.
This is the path we’re on. We will continue to hear claims that information sharing has
“barely improved since 9/11.” Such hyperbole is unmitigated nonsense. The robust sharing of
information between and among the key organizations has undoubtedly contributed to the fact
that we haven’t suffered a major attack. And by any objective standard, the level of sharing
1 The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States; U.S. Government Print.
OSINT Forum – Week 5For this forum, you are to answer one or mor.docxloganta
OSINT Forum – Week 5
For this forum, you are to answer
one or more
of the questions listed below. The original post must be a minimum of
250
words. Additionally, you must post two peer responses on a classmate’s original post. Responses should be a minimum of
200
words each and include direct questions.
Questions:
- How have the authors detailed the value of open sources. Discuss one or more values. Provide real-time examples to your discussion.
- Explain the importance of open source information and the intelligence cycle.
- Why should intelligence personnel who have access to classified information should not produce unclassified products on the same subjects?
- What are the downsides of open source information?
- Identify sources one can go to collect open source information. Provide details for each source identified.
Reading & Resources:
Collecting Open Source Intelligence via Tailored Information Delivery Systems
Producing Intelligence from Open Sources
NATO OSINT Handbook
(pages 1-35)
The Downside of Open Source Intelligence
Student Response #1 – Nicholas
The Intelligence cycle is what drives collection from every intelligence discipline. And that is especially true with OSINT. First there must be requirements to drive the intelligence cycle. With the requirements in place, the analysts will have an idea of what they are going to collect on, when the requirements are known they will be further scrutinized by the planning and direction phase which is led by the National Security Branch (Intelligence nd, np). Once the analyst is aware of the requirements and the planning/direction has taken place, they can now collect raw information through open source. Once the analyst gathers the information, they process and exploit it into a usable form. Once the information has been sorted and placed in a workable form, the analyst will now turn the raw information into intelligence (Intelligence nd np). Last and not least, once the information is turned into intelligence it will be put in the correct format to fit their customer’s needs. This is why the intelligence cycle is very important for open source information and the analysis of this information into intelligence. The steps above are pulled from the basic intelligence cycle, while the intelligence cycle that focuses primarily on OSINT (according to NATO) only uses planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, searching anonymously on the web, production, and dissemination and evaluation (Kernan 2012, 15). The steps are all similar, but the steps NATO points out for OSINT is more specific to OSINT, rather than every collection effort.
Since a lot of us have spoke about deception techniques and some of the flaws involved with OSINT, I figured I’d also add in some opinions/information about the downsides of open source information. Although OSINT is viewed valuable in most cases, reliability issues arise from proliferation on individual cites th.
In November 2011 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the General Assembly was briefed on the progress of Global Pulse, a UN innovation initiative harnessing real-time data and new technologies ("Big Data") to protect vulnerable populations. This book is a record of that event and presents 1) emerging techniques in information technology that make Global Pulse possible, 2) preparatory work in Indonesia and Uganda for launch of the first Pulse Labs, 3) the results of five research projects to test concepts underlying the application of real-time data and global development and 4) the roadmap for UN Global Pulse
This report was developed by PSFK Labs for the United Nations to help them understand how technology, including social media, could help organizations understand what is happening to their most vulnerable populations in real-time.
We intend for it to be openly shared around the globe between communities, development agencies, academia and other organizations. Its aim is to highlight the opportunities that exist for organizations, large or small. In particular, the “left field” examples of data capture and use are published in hope of showcasing how organizations can leap- frog IT investment and still significantly improve the monitoring capabilities.
For a free download of this report please visit http://www.psfk.com/future-of-real-time
In 17th century Europe all observable swans were white and by extension all swans were therefore assumed to be white. No non-white swan had ever been observed. In the 18th century, however, black swans were discovered in Western Australia and that discovery undermined the statistics of swans to that date. Previously, the “risk” of a Black Swan was essentially nil, but upon recognition that the improbable was not the same as the impossible the possibility of Black Swans became more likely.
What had changed that made Black Swans more probable? Simply put our perceptions were broadened. In this article we will look at large programs, what creates the possibility of Black Swans and what are some of the new risks we must pay attention to.
Possibility of Black Swans
Program Management is very much about meeting the challenges of scale and complexity. These challenges largely focus on the management of known knowns and known unknowns. But large programs by their very nature move into a new neighborhood where previously rare unknown unknowns are more prevalent. In effect large program risks grow in new non linear ways. What causes this growth? Simply put:
- Scale and complexity move you into a new neighborhood where black swans may be more common
- Scaling drives non linear and non correlated growth in risks
- Complexity masks existing risks
- Complexity creates new risks
So what are Black Swans?
My paper in this month\'s issue of PM World Today tries to provide some guidance for those responsible for large engineering & construction programs.
Equity Dilemmas for Psychological Operations and Public Information in Milita...Jeffrey Malone
I gave this presentation at the 'Information and Technology: The Double Edged Sword' conference in Canberra, 19 February 2001. The presentation discusses the tensions between military information operations (with a focus on psychological operations) and public information, in the context of the evolving global media environment.
Presentation to National Academy of Science workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media. I argued that the citizen science model, in which volunteers contribute to substantive scientific research, is a great model for how to involve the general public in making accurate, actionable social media posts (Twitter, Twitvid, Facebook) that first responders can use to direct their efforts in a disaster.
Intelligence Led Policing for Police Decision MakersDeborah Osborne
Intelligence-Led Policing for Decision-Makers Webinar
Audio is at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Deborah-Osborne/2009/09/23/Intelligence-Led-Policing-for-Decision-Makers-Webinar
This webinar, designed for law enforcement managers, covers the following topics:
* Intelligence: what it is, what it is not, and what it can be
* The role of the decision-maker in the intelligence cycle
* Defining Intelligence-Led Policing and the 3 i's cycle
* The 7 stages of Intelligence-Led Policing
* Resources for learning more about Intelligence-Led Policing
The 911 Commission Report concluded that the failure of the intelli.docxSANSKAR20
The 9/11 Commission Report concluded that the failure of the intelligence community (IC) to share information between agencies and levels of government lead to significant gaps in situational awareness. The terrorists exploited those gaps to plan and execute their attacks. Over the years since 9/11, in an effort to improve the nation’s ability to share information and intelligence, more than 70 fusion centers have been created at the local, regional, and state levels. These efforts have not been without considerable cost and concerns, such as privacy. The recession of 2008–09 and lack of major terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11 resulted in local and state leaders having to rethink their ability to provide ongoing investments in these centers. Your local leadership has requested your assistance in assessing the situation.
Your assignment is to write a strategy memo of 850–1,100 words that addresses the major research questions listed below. You should utilize the course materials, Web resources, and the course articles provided as well as conduct your own research, including interviews if possible. Your final document should include an overview of the fusion center nearest to your place of residence. If you are unable to research your local fusion center, you should explore the information-sharing environment between agencies at your local level (again,
local
is defined at your discretion).
Your conclusion should outline your recommendations for your fusion center based upon the resources provided, your research, and the answers to the questions below.
Assignment Guidelines
Address the following in 850–1,100 words:
What local jurisdiction did you choose for this assignment?
Does your local jurisdiction have or participate in a regional (e.g., major urban area or state-level) fusion center? If so, in what way? If not, what platforms (e.g., meetings, conference calls, or software/hardware solutions) are utilized by local HS practitioners to achieve information and intelligence sharing?
What is the mission scope of your local fusion center (e.g., terrorism, all crimes, or all hazards)? How does the fusion center achieve that mission scope? How did it select their scope?
Operationally, who is the lead agency for the fusion center? What other agencies provide direct support (e.g., funding and full- and part-time staff)? What disciplines are present? Is it operational (staffed) at all times?
What are the funding sources for the fusion center?
How are non-law enforcement agencies provided with information and intelligence?
Does the fusion center have a written privacy policy?
What types of products are produced, and to whom are they distributed?
How are information and intelligence entered into the fusion center? How does the public enter information? How is the public made aware of its ability to report suspicious activity?
Is the private sector engaged in any of the fusion center activities?
What is the role of the fusion center dur.
Big data, democratized analytics and deep context, CIDPNSI
Paper analyzes how big data, democratized analytics, deep context are changing how we think and do development. Outlines key new technologies, analysis techniques and tools that will have a major impact on development research. Classifies into data, analytics and feedback layer.
ISCRAM2009 Sensemaking and Information Management in Humanitarian Disaster Re...wjm
Presentation given at the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) 2009 conference on May 11, 2009 in Gothenborg, Sweden. The presentation is based on the paper "Sensemaking and Information Management in Humanitarian Disaster Response: Observations from the TRIPLEX Exercise" by Willem Muhren and Bartel Van de Walle, which is published in the ISCRAM2009 proceedings and online available at http://www.iscram.org/ISCRAM2009/papers/Contributions/219_Sensemaking%20and%20Information%20Management_Muhren2009.pdf
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
Our Services
At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
Static QR Codes: Create free static QR codes. These QR codes are able to store significant information such as URLs, vCards, plain text, emails and SMS, Wi-Fi credentials, and Bitcoin addresses.
Dynamic QR codes: These also have all the advanced features but are subscription-based. They can directly link to PDF files, images, micro-landing pages, social accounts, review forms, business pages, and applications. In addition, they can be branded with CTAs, frames, patterns, colors, and logos to enhance your branding.
Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
Why choose us?
ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
Comprehensive Analytics
Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdf
Faster and more united?
1. THE ROLE OF OPEN SOURCE I NTELLIGENCE
Interview with Axel Dyèvre
Axel Dyèvre: Director in charge of Open Source Intelli- Could you explain the difference between This is paradoxical. Intelligence services, and television reporters, and think-tankers in the
gence Solutions at CEIS. Previously he was Senior Part- traditional and open source intelligence? particularly the CIA, have carried out many world than there are case officers”2. All these
ner in a software editorial firm where he spent 10 years studies in recent years on the relation between actors can cover the ground in much more
ntelligence agencies are primarily focused intelligence and OSINT. The figures varied, detail than any security agency. With nearly
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defining, managing and controlling Open Source Intelli-
gence projects in public and private organisations, in both on obtaining information that is not but all of the studies shared similar conclu- one billion surfers, tens of thousands of news
national and international contexts. He has worked in available to ordinary citizens, for example sions: between 35% and 95% of the informa- sites and over 43 million blogs, that is a
complex environments combining tools, methodologies through networks of agents, by monitor- tion used by the US Government Intelligence, potential mass of several hundred thousand
and expertise. Prior to that Axel Dyèvre was an officer in ing electronic communications, or by examin- after processing, came from open sources. items of information published every day.
reconnaissance units in the French Army for seven years. ing satellite photography. Certainly, the vast This said, you should note that the amounts Some of them, filtered with the right tools
He has a Business degree from the Ecole Supérieure de majority of these agencies’ funding is dedicat- allocated to OSINT by US agencies did not and the right competence, could turn out to
Commerce de Paris (France). ed to these forms of intelligence. On the other exceed 1% of their budgets. Therefore eco- be key elements to take decisions in conflict
hand, the amount of publicly available infor- nomic argument in favour of OSINT cannot prevention or crisis response, whatever the cri-
mation is growing daily, with huge numbers of be refuted: 1% of expenditure contributes to sis. It is necessary to overcome the confusion
formal, and an even greater number of infor- at least 35% of the results1! that exists between the interest and reliability
mal contributors posting information on the of an item of information and its degree of
web. This information is often equally useful It is not surprising therefore that intelligence secrecy. For example, an extremely secret
to take mission critical decisions. The fact that services all over the world are becoming source can provide erroneous information,
it is not classified does not mean that it is easy increasingly interested in OSINT. As part of while on an analysis in a newspaper or on a
to find or easy to interpret. The challenge for the post 9/11 reform process of the intelli- website may prove correct!
intelligence or risk analysts is to identify all the gence community, the CIA announced in
actionable information and analyse it. November 2005 the creation of a special Of course, it is human nature to confuse the
structure to deal with Open Source, the Open messenger and the message, but when it
What’s the relevance of OSINT in crisis or conflict Source Centre. In December 2005, John comes to intelligence or mission critical infor-
prevention? Negroponte, the US Director of National mation, the value of a source and the value of
Intelligence, appointed Eliot A. Jardines as an item of information have been subject to
In today’s information society, OSINT (open Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelli- parallel evaluation.
source intelligence) is set to play a pivotal gence for Open Source. His mission is to set
role for those working in crisis response, up a policy framework for the use of OSINT How could OSINT be used in conflict prevention
whether they are working in the field, in crisis within the American intelligence community. or in the course of a crisis response operation?
prevention, in conflict evaluation or in event
monitoring. How do you explain the uncommon performance of A very important advantage of OSINT is that
OSINT ? the information is public (mind you “public”
All too often, information in the public domain means that it is not classified, it doesn’t mean
is neglected by decision makers or opinion lead- Well it’s very simple: as Steven Mercado sug- that it’s easy to find…). In the context of
ers in favour of information from traditional gested in an important article published in the European and multilateral operations, involv-
intelligence sources such as human intelligence CIA’s Studies in Intelligence Journal, “There ing governmental players (including military
(HUMINT), and signals intelligence (SIGINT). are far more bloggers, journalists, pundits, and civilian intelligence), humanitarian
1. On this subject, see: Markowitz, Joseph, (Summer 1997), “The Open Source Role”, Horizons 1 and 2, OSINT.
2. Mercado, Stephen C. (2005) “Reexamining the distinction between open information and secrets.” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 49, No. 2, www.cia.gov/csi/studies/Vol49no2/index.html.
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2. organisations, international and private insti- avoid working using the “means at our dispos- you also have the printed and audiovisual
tutions, the use of OSINT is particularly use- al”: you need to have the right human reporting which is distributed in a different way
ful. Being unclassified at the origin it can be resources, and the right technology. then you have a plethora of databases accessi-
released without problem to those in the field ble via the Internet that distribute and archive
and at headquarters. Every one of the crisis What is the most important skill for an OSINT specialised information from all over the
responders has a “need to know” basis for that analyst? world. For an example, LexisNexis provides
information and by passing it on nobody access to approximately 30 000 different
breaks any confidentiality rule. Think of infor- The capacity to detect the different nature sources that cannot be found on the Internet.
mation concerning physical security threats: (legitimate or illegitimate) of the influence Then increasingly you have web-logs or blogs,
imagine being able to gather all the (public) strategies carried out by the various sources. which are online publications mostly produced
threat reports coming from all the actors on New information and communication tech- by individuals. It is clear that the credibility
the ground in Kabul, and then sharing that nologies have changed the parameters of our and quality of an article published in Le
information in real-time…. information environment significantly. The Monde, Le Figaro or the Washington Post has
first change is the speed at which information nothing in common with a message posted on
So this means the end of secrecy then…? (or disinformation or propaganda) spreads. a blog. But we should not lose sight of the fact
The second major change is the new access that the “Lewinsky Affair” was stirred up by a
Not really. As I said before, raw OSINT infor- modalities. We are theoretically in a situation blog, and that the obscurity of the source did
mation is naturally unclassified. But in the where we can be permanently connected (or not prevent the scandal from assuming global
open source intelligence process, further inter- permanently capable to communicate). All proportions!
pretation and analysis of that raw information the information published on the planet is
can lead to sensitive conclusions, which may now, theoretically, within everyone’s reach. So What would be the added value of OSINT for cri-
deserve a classification depending on the you have to stay tuned in all the time or you sis responders and particularly for those in charge of
impact its disclosure may create. With risk alienating yourself from the epicentres of reconstruction and rehabilitation?
OSINT it is the analysis that creates the value, information. Finally, in the global business of
not only the source. crisis response, analysts have to master the The context does not change. You need to
Internet. The importance of the Internet as a have tools that facilitate the process of filter-
But if I understand you correctly everyone could vehicle for spreading information is undeni- ing valuable content from noise. Then you
become an OSINT analyst. able both because of its audience and because need to be able track exactly the evolution of
journalists use the Internet on a large scale as events; then review them critically to distin-
There is a part of truth in what you say, but a source of information. So traditional media, guish truth from manipulation; relevant con-
just a small part. There are many mispercep- the very media on which the listener and read- tent from the irrelevant; mission critical infor-
tions concerning OSINT. If you are good at er rely for selected and validated information, mation from ordinary news coverage; and true
using Google it is not enough. If you also basically use the same information and valida- details from details that may anticipate very
have a subscription to a database service it is tion channels as their audience. This closes a relevant consequences.
better, but it is still not enough. OSINT is, loop, and dramatically increases the possibili-
first of all, a process that takes a lot of time ty to influence because transmitters and Let me explain how it works. Following the
and if a non-specialist with outdated resources receivers are tending to become more and earthquake in Pakistan on 8 October 2005, a
tries to use OSINT, it takes even longer. Iden- more intertwined. Donors’ Conference was held in Islamabad
tifying useful open sources (the art of sourc- on 19 November 2005. This event gave rise
ing), qualifying them, categorising and struc- I presume OSINT analysts have to be good at find- to a real influence strategy by the Pakistani
turing the signals they carry is a skill that can ing things, first and foremost. Government, to get its views across the
be learnt, but it cannot be improvised. To donor community. If you track the subject
excel in OSINT you need to adopt a robust, Absolutely. The volumes of information “Kashmir – earthquake – reconstruction”
scientific methodology. You also need to involved are enormous. You have the web and using a dedicated software, for example the
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3. Pericles3 monitoring and analysis system, you tion, categorise it by its tone, enables swift Was it a deliberate choice or the fruit of lack of atten-
will be able to tap massive flows of informa- detection of any type of anomaly. For exam- tion to the Pakistani context?
tion in all languages and be alerted about any ple, in the days leading up to the conference,
“anomaly” in the behaviour of the informa- the subject of damage assessment suddenly The influence campaign by the Pakistani Govern-
tion. An “anomaly” can be defined as an took a very political turn. The Pakistani Gov- ment continued on the 11 November, when
unusual amount of articles covering the ernment had engaged in a genuine (and Reuters agency published a news story saying that
same topic or an unusual correlation understandable) operation to influence the Damage Assessment Team had evaluated the
between a person and a debate. With this donors to agree to their terms. This was hap- damage at US$5.2 billion dollars. According to
type of software the user defined the type of pening while the emotion aroused by the the press agency, this figure came from an advis-
anomaly he or she wants to find. In the case earthquake was subsiding worldwide. Pericles er to the Pakistani Government! The story was at
of the earthquake in Pakistan the interesting had not only detected this decline in the glob- that moment relayed all over the world. The fig-
element for someone responsible for the al attention but also had spotted that from 11 ure was gradually confirmed by the donors, and
reconstruction is the attitude of the players November, the issue of reconstruction and even became the basis of the conference of 19
involved (political leaders, international and particularly that of damage assessment was November. That day the Pakistani Prime Minister
national organisations, governments and attracting more and more coverage in Pak- Shaukat Aziz declared: “It’s a very successful day
NGOs), with regard to the specific issue of istan. On 9 November, Pakistan’s English lan- for Pakistan. The results are better than our expec-
damage assessment. Evaluating the cost of guage newspaper, Dawn, published an article tations… these are the fruits of our policies and
reconstruction was the key issue of the entitled “Government, Donors differ on recognition of Pakistan’s role in the region”.
Donors’ Çonference. Over 5 000 public Damage”, indicating that the Damage Assess-
news sites worldwide were active in that ment Team consisting of the World Bank, the On 28 November, an article entitled “Pakistan
occasion on that topic. In the months lead- Asian Development Bank and the United seeks opportunity in face of tragedy” in the Dal-
ing up to the Donors’ Conference, nearly 1 Nations Development Programme (UNDP) las Morning News, covered by a large number of
300 documents from media, governments, valued the cost of reconstruction at US$2.78 American newspapers, pointed to the success of
international institutions and NGOs dis- billion. But the same newspaper stated a few the Pakistani Government’s influence campaign,
cussed the upcoming event. Out of all these lines later that the Pakistani Government con- by insisting on the positive effects that the recon-
documents, about 150 were specifically relat- tested that conclusion, putting the cost at struction aid should have on the country’s econ-
ed to damage assessment. three times that figure. This was taken up with omy. That article highlights how Pakistan was
varying degrees of precision by the rest of the able to exploit its strategic position in the “war
The specific ability of the Pericles system to Pakistani press, but the information was hard- against terror”, to win over the US Government
locate the geographical origin of this informa- ly covered anywhere else in the world! and all the donors to share its view.
3. Pericles is a Global Intelligence Platform, created and developed by the French software editor Datops. It comprises three main parts, functioning on the intelligence cycle model and adapted to an intelli-
gence organisation. These include the following:
- agent server with automated capture and tagging;
- linguistic and semantic indexations; and
- automated classification with graphical visualisation and analytical tools.
Pericles is able to monitor millions of websites, forums, blogs and databases, as well as gather and treat thousands of documents per hour.
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