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Provided vulnerability assessment of the Linux production network systems utilizing QualysGuard.

Vulnerability assessment of future flood impacts for populations on private wells: utilizing climate projection data for public health adaptation planning

Zemtsov, Stepan and Baburin, Vyacheslav and Koltermann, Klaus and Krylenko, Inna and Yumina, Natalia and Vladimir, Litvinov (2014): Social risk and vulnerability assessment of the hazardous hydrological phenomena in Russia.

The assistence of higher resolution projections to the vulnerability assessment of Amsterdam may lie in the analysis of consequences of an assumed sea level change on the probability that a major storm or inland precipitation event (or a combination of these) lead to water levels that are disruptive for the city.

Now, faced with rising waters, the county is starting pilot restoration projects and vulnerability assessments of bay - and oceanside towns in earnest.

This grant enabled the Educational Service Center to work with area school districts to develop regional proactive emergency preparedness programs and crisis response plans The plan included security and vulnerability assessments of school facilities; updating each district's comprehensive emergency management plan to the latest Department of Homeland Security standards; and conducting extensive training and exercises with school district administrators and staff.

Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessments As part of its cybersecurity program, a Covered Entity must conduct penetration testing of its Information Systems at least annually and vulnerability assessments of its systems at least quarterly.

Not exact matches

In its last assessment, S&P said that Portugal's outlook was stable, «balancing our expectation of further budgetary consolidation and likely receding banking sector risks over the next two years against the risks of a weakening external growth environment and vulnerabilities related to high private - and public - sector debt.»

Siemens has assigned a security severity rating of 9.8 out of 10, using the open industry standard CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) risk assessment system, according to the U.S. security notice.

The alert noted that in a recent SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations study of 75 financial firms, 5 percent of broker - dealers and 26 percent of advisors and investment funds did not conduct periodic risk assessments of critical systems to uncover vulnerabilities, potential business consequences and other cybersecurity threats.

However, an assessment of the vulnerability of the Canadian financial system should, among other factors, account for the ability of Canadian financial institutions to withstand losses from the household sector.

Many of these businesses will offer free vulnerability assessments to give you an idea of where your weaknesses may lie.

Our food fraud vulnerability assessment is purpose built to help companies identify areas of vulnerability and meet new requirements of GFSI recognised certification schemes.

The assessment will give you a profile of your company's potential food fraud vulnerability, which can form the basis for the development of controls to reduce identified vulnerabilities.

That is why PwC and SSAFE have collaborated to release a food fraud vulnerability assessment that companies can use free - of - charge to help identify vulnerabilities and reduce fraud threats.

Nestlé's bottling plant was shown in an environmental impact assessment to have been built in the area of «maximum vulnerability» in the water park over the aquifer.

It includes creating an election support center to provide technical expertise to county boards of elections, giving boards access to threat mitigation services and hardware, providing vulnerability assessment to make sure voting machines are protected, and requiring counties to report data breaches to the state.

The most urgent need is appropriate preparedness based on scientific assessment of landscape vulnerability.»

ECO2 developed a generic approach for estimating consequences, probability and risk associated with sub-seabed CO2 storage based on the assessment of the environmental value of local organisms as indicated for example by the Natura 2000 network of nature protection areas or the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North - East Atlantic (OSPAR), the vulnerability of environmental resources and possible impacts on them as well as consequences and risks.

As expected, teens who reported higher levels of interpersonal dependent stress showed higher levels of negative cognitive style and rumination at later assessments, even after the researchers took initial levels of the cognitive vulnerabilities, depressive symptoms, and sex into account.

The Commission produced a Plan of Action that included a comprehensive climate change impact assessment, a greenhouse gas reduction strategy, and actions for reducing Maryland's vulnerability to climate change.

The assessment describes effects of climate change that have already been observed; projected changes in the climate and the landscape; and forest vulnerabilities in a 23.5 - million - acre region of forest in northeastern Minnesota.

Over the next 100 years, Minnesota's iconic boreal forest and deep snow may change into a deciduous forest with winters warm enough for some precipitation to fall as rain, according to a new U.S. Forest Service assessment of the vulnerability of Minnesota forests to climate change.

«There are so many variables that will affect the future of forests in northern Minnesota, forest managers will probably always have to deal with some amount of uncertainty,» said Stephen Handler, lead author of the vulnerability assessment and a climate change specialist with the Northern Institute for Applied Climate Science (NIACS).

Central Appalachian forests have been experiencing the effects of a changing climate for decades, and effects such as more heavy rainfall events, more drought, and more hot days are likely to continue, according to a new vulnerability assessment for the region by the U.S. Forest Service and many partners.

The IPCC has taken a crack at that, identifying 26 «key vulnerabilities» in its most recent assessment, ranging from declines in agricultural productivity to the melting of ice sheets and polar ice cover as well as determining how to judge if they are spiraling out of control.

-- The President shall establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program to improve understanding of global change, to respond to the information needs of communities and decisionmakers, and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global and regional climate change.

«National drought policies with effective early warning systems would be crucial in promoting vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation measures, particularly in light of the devastating droughts witnessed in Africa this year that have left more than 20 million people on the verge of starvation,» she added.

«Determination of the return periods of extreme weather events should be the starting point for all risk assessment related to weather events, because in addition to exposure and vulnerability, it also it determines the need for society to prepare», says FMI researcher Karoliina Pilli - Sihvola.

Action on mitigating the effects of drought should be implemented considering comprehensive drought early warning and monitoring systems, vulnerability and risk assessment, upstream - downstream water uses, the link between water and land use; livelihood diversification strategies for drought affected people, etc..

By facilitating independent assessment of the three dimensions of climate change vulnerability, our approach can be used to devise species and area - specific conservation interventions and indices.

The results from her study were incorporated into a vulnerability assessment framework to investigate the cumulative impact of multiple climatic processes on sea turtles nesting grounds.

«Combined with information on vulnerability and exposure, it serves as a scientific basis for assessment of global risk from extreme weather, the discussion of mitigation targets, and liability considerations,» the researchers concluded.

His research interests include artificial intelligence approaches, automation in a variety of computer languages, network intrusion detection and response, and vulnerability and risk assessment.

It is a legal requirement to have a suitable and sufficient fire safety risk assessment in place which has recorded areas of vulnerability and any significant findings; this should be complimented with staff training.

Also in 2010 in Philadelphia (which educates 50 percent of all Pennsylvania charter - school students), the Office of the Controller performed a «fraud vulnerability assessment» of the city's oversight of charter schools and reported that the Charter School Office... made the city's more than $ 290 million paid to charter schools «extremely vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse.»

A comprehensive risk assessment would determine flood hazard for individual structures by modeling watershed and floodplain characteristics at fine spatial scales; it would describe the varying levels of protection offered by all elements of a flood protection system and mitigation measures; and it would account explicitly for uncertainties, including those related to current and future flood hazard, structure value and vulnerability, and the current and future performance of flood protection measures.

The latest report Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016 from the European Environment Agency (EEA) also includes an assessment of hail, a weather phenomenon that is often associated with lightening (a previous report from EASAC from 2013 also covers hail).

It should also adopt a complementary and precautionary resource - based assessment of the vulnerability of critical resources (those affecting water, food, energy, and human and ecosystem health) to environmental variability and change of all types.

While at WWF, he coordinated reviews of climate impacts on U.S. national parks, marine ecosystems, and migratory birds, in addition to climate vulnerability assessments in southern Africa and China.

Less than one - third of assessments of future climate vulnerability account for the dynamics of both socio - economic and spatial aspects of climate risks, says Alexandra Jurgilevich

The programme, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aims to assist countries that are party to the Convention, particularly developing countries, to improve their understanding and assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and to make informed decisions thereon.

Active participation in the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP) on impacts, vulnerability and assessment is one of them.

It is grounded in an assessment of the diverse climatic profile and vulnerabilities of the region, including identified knowledge gaps, expected impacts, work already under way by countries and partners, and key actions to be taken over time.

- Improve their understanding and assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change;

At Dominion Resources» annual May meeting, shareholders presented five resolutions designed to improve the company's assessment of its opportunities and vulnerabilities on climate, renewable energy and nuclear power.

How inequitable is the global distribution of responsibility, capability, and vulnerability to climate change: A comprehensive indicator - based assessment.

While exploring the local - level dynamics of people's vulnerability to climate change, of which adaptive capacity is a key component, it is important to find ways to embed such findings into wider scales of assessment (e.g., country and regional scales)(Brooks et al., 2005).

The WGI contribution is the first in the series of four reports with the WGII assessment on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability scheduled for finalization in March 2014; the WGIII contribution on options for mitigating climate change to be finalized in April 2014, and the AR5 Synthesis Report to be completed in October 2014.

Tui, R. Mulwa, C. Nhemachena, P. Ponnusamy, H. Rasnayaka, and H. Singh, 2015: Representative agricultural pathways and scenarios for regional integrated assessment of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation.