Question:

What is Profession?

Answer:
profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain.
Professions are typically regulated by statute, with the responsibilities of enforcement delegated to respective professional bodies, whose function is to define, promote, oversee, support and regulate the affairs of its members. These bodies are responsible for the licensure of professionals, and may additionally set examinations of competence and enforce adherence to an ethical code of practice. However, they all require that the individual hold at least a first professional degree before licensure.

What is Professional?

Answer:

The first professional degree is an academic degree that prepares the holder for a particular profession by emphasizing competency skills along with theory and analysis. These professions are typically licensed or otherwise regulated by a governmental or government-approved body. Areas such as nursing, architecture, forestry, law, medicine, chiropractic, engineering, dentistry, psychology, accounting, podiatry, audiology, physical therapy, optometry, pharmacy, social work, religious ministry, or education, among others, often require such degrees for licensing. Professional degrees, often taken as a candidate's second degree after an undergraduate degree in an academic subject, are especially important in the United States. In the United States, many professional degrees are combined with graduate degrees, and some students undertake professional studies after graduate studies (MS or PhD). In some other countries, such as the United Kingdom, the study of vocational subjects at undergraduate level, and post-graduate qualifications outside the academic degree structure, also play a large role in professional training.

What is Professional Experience?

Answer:

To meet the requirements of the RIBA Professional Experience and Development Record, and to have direct experience under supervision of the duties and responsibilities of professional practice which will become the students upon qualification, the RIBA specifies certain mandatory minimum requirements to be achieved by the student within this time period. These are:

1. A minimum of 24 months of recorded professional experience, 12 months of which must be after passing or gaining exemption from Part 2 of the RIBA Examination in Architecture, under the direct supervision of an architect in the United Kingdom. (Regulation 1)
2. A minimum of 10 working days' approved study leading to the RIBA Examination in Professional Practice and Management, (Part 3). (Regulation 3)
3. A minimum 35 hours a year continuing professional development, per year. (Regulation 4)

Although it is not mandatory, the RIBA advises that a minimum of 3 months' experience of professional architectural practice under the direct supervision of an architect outside the United Kingdom provides useful experience for architectural students as part of his or her educational and professional development.

The RIBA Professional Experience and Development Record records professional experience in 3-month periods. A period of less than 3 months' duration will not normally be accepted as valid professional experience. (Except, of course, for CPD, professional and community activity and study for the RIBA Examination in Professional Practice and Management, (Part 3), which are subject to maximum time limits of less than 3 months.) Professional Experience and Development Records should be used to record each 3-month period of professional experience.

What is Professional Development?

Continuous Professional Development is the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skill, and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional and technical duties throughout your working life. Put more simply, it is a life-long learning approach to planning, managing and benefiting from your own development.

By undertaking CPD you can:

• Maintain and enhance your competence in your current role
• Ensure you are competitive in the job market
• Demonstrate commitment to your own development
• Find a new intellectual challenge

CPD is not an adjunct to your work, and the need for it is not dependent on your life or career stage (although it is a requirement for Chartered status). CPD can be any activity –in fact, you are probably doing it already – as long as you take a systematic approach to planning, undertaking, recording and reviewing your development.

http://www.pedr.co.uk/textpage.asp?menu=1a&sortorder=40&area=main
http://www.iop.org/activity/cpd/Professionals_wishing_to_undertake_CPD/page_3979.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession

Types of Attack

Question:
1. What are the different types of attack

Answer:

• Virus
  

  Computer viruses have a long history. A virus attempts to install itself on a user's system and to spread directly to other files on that system with the aim that these infected files will be transferred to another machine. The payload of a virus can range from 'comical' pranks to destruction of the system itself.

  A virus relies on users to spread by sharing infected files either directly or via email. Once launched, a virus is completely independent of its creator.

  Although the most common threat to security, the traditional virus does not attack other systems directly and so is unlikely to be detected by KFSensor.

• Worm
  

  A worm is very similar to a virus. The key difference is that a worm attempts to propagate itself without any user involvement. It typically scans other computers for vulnerabilities which it is designed to exploit. When such a machine is identified, the worm will attack that machine, copying over its files and installing itself, so that the process can continue.

  KFSensor excels at detecting worms as they scan and attempt to attack very large numbers of systems at random.

• Trojan
  

  Trojans take their name from the trojan horse of Greek mythology.
  Computer trojans work in the same way. A game, screen saver or cracked piece of commercial software is given to a victim. The software may appear to work as normal, but its real purpose is to deliver a payload, such as a virus or a root kit.

• Root Kit
  

  A root kit is a piece of software that once installed on a victim's machine opens up a port to allow a hacker to communicate with it and take full control of the system. Root kits are also known as back doors. Some root kits give a hacker even more control of a machine than a victim may have themselves.

  The SubSeven root kit allows an attacker to turn off a victim's monitor, move the mouse and even turn on an installed web cam and watch the victim without their knowledge.

• Hybrids
  

  Often malware is a dangerous hybrid that can combine the features of the different classifications described above. The SubSeven root kit is delivered and classified as a trojan.

• Scanners
  

  Scanners are tools designed to interrogate machines on the Internet to elicit information about the types and versions of the services that they are running. There are a variety of scanners, some just ping for the presence of a machine, others look for open ports, while others are more specialized in looking for vulnerabilities of a particular type of service, or the presence of a root kit. Scanners are often incorporated into other malware such as worms.

  Scanners are a favorite tool of a hacker, but are just as useful to security professionals trying to detect and close down system vulnerabilities. KFSensor detects scanners and is effective at misleading them.

• Hacker
  

  Hacker, H4x0r5, crackers and black hats are all terms for those individuals that KFSensor is ultimately designed to detect and offer protection from. The term hacker is used in this manual to cover all such individuals.

  Direct, or manual actions, by a hacker are much rarer than the attacks launched by the tools described above. Hackers usually only attack a system directly once a system has been identified as vulnerable or has already been exploited by an automated tool.