Just a few years ago, all IT processing took place in-house. Payroll processing, human resources and benefits management, real estate management, and investor relations were done by employees within the parent organization. Even in the home environment, families kept information activities in-house, including annual tax returns and banking (through the writing of paper checks) and disagreements or issues with vendors was taken care of personally. Discuss the following:

a. Why is due diligence necessary when dealing with external vendors?
b. What is one suggestion you have regarding securing data as it is in-transit to and from these vendors?
c. What are two security protocols that should be part of the vendor's data operations? For example, if the data includes PII/SPII information, is adherence to external regulations and guidelines the responsibility of the vendor or your organization?

Gerard is currently working as an entry-level customer support technician, but he would like to someday become a software developer. what is the best first step to understand what he should do? ask his manager for a new job or at least a job recommendation study graphic design in order to obtain the necessary skills use career resources to investigate what skills and education are required work part-time as an entry-level web developer question 13 (true/false worth 6 points) (08.03 lc) career resources are used to explore career options and find career information. true false question 14(multiple choice worth 6 points) (08.01 mc) classify the following skills: writing html code, evaluating color theory, using design principles. hard skills interpersonal skills people skills soft skills question 15 (true/false worth 6 points) (08.03 lc) a mentor is a person who is advised, trained, or counseled by a trusted mentee. true false

Requirement types discussed during software development include functional and color scheme nonfunctional and code style constraint and nonfunctional fashionable and functional.

Design a pos circuit that displays the letters a through j on a seven-segment indicator. the circuit has four inputs w, x, y, and z which represent the last 4 bits of the uppercase ascii code for the letter to be displayed. thus, if wxyz = 0001 then "a" will be displayed. (any answer with 22 or fewer gates and inverters, not counting any for the inputs, is acceptable)