Essays on Port Security

Convergence of Transportation Congestion and Security at U.S. seaports

Introduction

The convergence of transport congestion and security at U.S sea ports is quite alarming. Prevalent transport congestion tends to restrain operations at the marine depots. The shipping companies are forced to interrupt the regular loading and offloading of cargo vessels for either night or weekend shifts. Occasional traffic congestion block the berths and the inbound ships find themselves stacked up leading to a delay of transportation of cargo loads. U.S sea ports security has been viewed as an important subject by the U.S homeland security. The Bureau of Customs and ...

Network security is critical in the design of a network infrastructure. This is because such a design ensures that network equipment and devices including access mechanisms prevent unauthorized access. However, such can be implemented by protecting network links, hardening network devices such as routers and switches either through configurations or implementing new levels of security to perform the functions. The technology to be used in enforcing enterprise wide security matters a lot, some such as the Virtual Private Network guarantees security through encryption where data is encrypted and routed over a tunnel across the public network, while at the same time implementing security ...

Executive summary

This report provides the network design of the Fiction Corporation project. The report follows the project management book of knowledge (PMBOK) processes and propose an organized study of the problem. The report provides an approach to solve the problem in a comprehensive manner. It starts with the study of the current network design and the technologies that deployed in the system. The management and network team will closely analyze the current system and propose a plan, how to migrate the data center of the organization from the old site to the new site (headquarter). The network design and engineers team will ...

Introduction

Wally World is a large retail chain in the Midwest United States. The company has a single corporate campus and has 25 regional distribution centres that support 3,000 retail locations. The company has made heavy investment in e-Commerce. There are point of sale systems connected at retail locations that help in maintaining dynamic inventory. WAN based intranet has been configured using IPSec to support retail locations using encrypted VPN links that are connected to the nearest regional distribution centre. The Wally World’s Enterprise Network mainly consists of a core backbone, two data centres, corporate campus, regional distribution centres, and ...

The Wall Street Journal Article by Will Connors titled “Underwater Drones are multiplying” argues that water drones are an army patrolling the ocean’s surface. The drones are “small-camera equipped robots” are developed by a range of companies and use specifically for sending information to data laptops and tablet screens. The idea of sending drones to sea developed as a hobby for wealthy adventures has quickly turned into a fast growing market with a rapidly increasing market demand. Even though several people admit that Video Ray Underwater Vehicles has been in progression since the late 1990s. Companies known for the manufacture of such ...