Sentences with phrase «systems of»

And finally they encrypted the computer systems of the victims, locking them out of critical data, including patient records in Britain.

When you're hired by a small company, your boss usually has to submit your personal information to a half dozen or more separate systems of record: payroll, health care, retirement, time - tracking, commuter benefits and on and on.

Meanwhile, some of the programs in which Travelport is investing to help cushion the blow are getting traction, particularly its new desktop tools and the Rooms and More initiative that provides vastly more hotel content than the Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan systems of old.

It was not an entirely spurious claim: Classified documents released by Edward J. Snowden showed a complex effort by the National Security Agency to get into the systems of a Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, though the United States maintained that the effort was for national security surveillance, not for the theft of intellectual property.

No need for duplicate systems of approval.

Georges tired of shoveling mounds of dirt into place to protect the delicate root systems of their trees and decided to try something different.

While companies like Google and Square currently tout mobile payment systems of their own, Apple is introducing Apple Pay with much aplomb.

Three typical vendors are: Stoneware Microcomputer Products of San Rafael, Calif. (DB Master 3.0), Personal Software of Sunnyvale, Calif. (VisiFile), Micro Lab of Highland Park, Ill. (Data Factory and Invoice Factory), and North American Business Systems of St. Louis (SOLUTION).

The ACSC said in a report on Monday that it responded to 734 cyber attacks on «systems of national interest» for the year ended June 30, and the defense industry was a major target.

The software robot is «taught» through a flowchart - like interface (without coding) to drive systems of record and follow the business rules needed to complete a process as a person would.

The tech giant is accused by A123 Systems of poaching top engineers as part of a plan to start making lithium - ion batteries for electric cars.

A number of companies have built highly successful systems of record: Salesforce, in the sales function, Intuit in finance and Workday, in human resources are notable ones.

As more things become connected, attacks will range from a hacker taking pictures of Miss Teen USA on her webcam without her knowing to the significant attack on control systems of factories.»

Systems of record are typically the backbone of core business processes.

It is for good reasons that we set up systems of laws or, in the corporate case, systems of policies, and empower and entrust qualified administrators to apply those laws and policies.

I realize that simply shutting down the spam - spewing email systems of the world would be a huge advance in making us all more effective, but I don't see that happening.

Most likely because the hockey and basketball lockouts radically changed the economic systems of the sports, whereas baseball's 1995 labour deal offered little change to the status quo.

Part - owner of C&H Fire Suppression Systems of Kitchener, Ont., which installs sprinklers around the province, Heller knows a thing or two about construction.

A native of Alice, Texas, Allison had somehow ended up in crunchy Northern California — at UC - Berkeley, no less — studying the immune systems of little white rodents.

The increase follows a rash of high - profile data breaches suffered by brands like Target, Home Depot and J.P. Morgan; the infamous «Backoff» malware package that compromised tens of millions of Target shoppers» credit cards in late 2013 also affected the in - store payment systems of more than 1,000 American businesses, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

«Islamic State will survive «Jihadi John»,» said Jonathan Russell, political liaison officer at the Quilliam Foundation, which aims to debunk the belief systems of Islamic extremism.

University of London anthropologist Graeber starts by taking exception to one of the fundamental received wisdoms of economics: that our monetary structures evolved from barter - based transactions, through the invention of money and use of coin, to the development of credit systems of increasing complexity.

The estimates provided above are based on the latest available national information on deaths collected from national civil registration systems of deaths, with the underlying cause of death captured by the national authority or partner organizations.

For better or for worse, shareholders are, under most companies» systems of governance, the ones to whom all insiders, including the CEO and Board of Directors, swear allegiance.

Greylock's Chen calls this new space «systems of intelligence,» pointing to a hopeful world where enterprise software doesn't just track the work, but informs better work.

The Belgian group specialises in the research of novel drugs based on nano - bodies found in the immune systems of llamas and alpacas, for which it partners with several of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.

Three - dimensional printing «levels the playing field, putting the most advanced manufacturing tools on desktops, in garages and in small businesses all over the world, and making them readily accessible through service bureaus,» says Avi Reichental, president and CEO of 3D Systems of Rock Hill, N.C.

Busy, boisterous open layouts can place extra stress on the nervous systems of introverts, preventing them from focusing or thinking creatively.

This means systems of any scale could be laid quickly and cheaply.

Systems of this kind have been in development for many years, however the rapid technological progress of enemy tank rounds, missiles and RPGs is leading the Army to more rapidly test and develop APS for its fleet of Abrams tanks.

Their foes: ingrained but unspoken prejudices and self - perpetuating systems of power disbursement.

Celis became involved with the work of Engineers without Borders Canada, a group of engineers, students and volunteers who use their creativity and problem - solving skills to help communities in Africa, and soon left her job at OPG for a year - long position in Ghana, working with the development systems of local governments.

Word travels fast in certain circles, and if you're part of a tight - knit industry where your reputation matters, establishing efficient systems of working with vendors and employees will go a long way in creating goodwill.

For years of consistency, you have to develop systems of things like saving your ideas in a file, creating an environment conducive to writing, and knowing how to tell people you can't do something so you can write.

Home security systems of the past were expensive and a little ridiculous.

Veritas CEO Bill Coleman, who sits on Sapho's advisory board, called Sapho's product «an operating system for work» that acts as «the connective tissue between systems of record and the end user.»

The other big thing to remember is that blockchains require other technologies to build these decentralized systems of trust.

Two senior officials who have been briefed on the new intrusions say they were aimed largely at the administrative systems of about 10 major American energy firms, which they would not name.

So it was at least theoretically possible that the immune systems of other women could also learn to successfully fight the virus.

You can make yourself wealthier, beginning today, without working any harder, taking any additional risks, trimming any lifestyle expenditures or learning any new systems of investing.

Consumer Reports rated the power and fuel systems of the 2012 3 Series among the worst in the industry and gave the model year an «orange» overall rating — or two out of five — on its ratings scale.

But, that could change, especially in the case of Google, which has been focusing on its Android Auto software to power the car entertainment systems of auto companies, like Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

In fact, organizations have already been effectively collecting and sharing data for years with use of various systems of record, particularly in the area of sales, where CRM systems provide a tremendous value through the shared data allowing the company to recognize sales opportunities that otherwise would have been missed.

These findings — though not unique among the countries surveyed by Pew — could raise potential human rights alarm bells as both countries begin the long process of rebuilding their systems of jurisprudence in the wake of the U.S. exit.

Canada's system of price and production controls on dairy, eggs and poultry products is outdated and regressive.

Sutton wrote the book on the field of reinforcement learning, a technique which allows AI to teach itself what the best actions are using a reward - punishment system of its own, an area of deep learning that played a role in the success of DeepMind's AlphaGo project.

But the black market and the occasional robbery may simply be the byproducts of a system of industry control that keeps prices artificially high, Charlebois says.

The IMF, or International Monetary Fund, is an intergovernmental agency that works to keep exchange rates and the international system of payments stable.

Most cloud storage providers have a system of multiple servers connected to each other.

According to Brigid McDermott, VP of blockchain for IBM, «Blockchain is a trusted system of records.»