Soon we will be paying more for digital services, even internet identifier like domain names can be included, and that's a definitive VAT. In PH it's equivalent to 12%. Although, we still have to see invoice for domain names registration and renewal fees being added with VAT. You should be getting reminders from your local and international service providers to key-in your tax details, if you haven't yet done so. We must say, this is especially for those who had to directly acquire digital services with the source and not through local resellers. If you've been dealing with local resellers, your digital services may probably have been subjected with, and had added, VAT included in your payment ever since. You should be, but you have to check it. For online local retailers, you may have been VAT registered and paying your taxes with or without that digital tax. Don't take this as an advice and ascertain it with your accountant to be sure.
Security, as they may say especially from specialists, without doubt has great impact to stakeholders and organizations that wants all its assets, except those of meant to be public, be protected at all times or when it is warranted.
In the case of a critical information infrastructure, there might be a one-sided answer that IT specialists would at first hand consider before dealing on any other security solutions. Look at how internetworks is link on one end to the other. There are many different ways a multiple network sites could be interconnected, most popularly through the Internet, however the choice still depends on the kind of data that flows through it. Say at Qwerty Auto Elec Company (QAEC in short, fictitious organization name only), the riches and biggest, wanted all of its domestic and international offices linked altogether and must be secured without regard to drawbacks. It does not want its information leaked, no unauthorized access and ingress attacks (e.g. DOS) on the physical and logical layer of the network, et al. Considering no internal misconduct or conspiracy will happen QAEC wanted to achieve a 99.999 if not 100 percent network stability, at least, for a certain time period.
The combination of firewall, VPN and cryptography, to support the security of a large and geographically diverse computing processes, are worthy of the requirements, still, they may only be second to how the network infrastructure is designed and erected. With the initial specification QAEC has laid out, it may need a confined circuit and shall not be interfaced to and from the public Internet. It would require the telco to install it just like how a local area network is rendered or even better, if any.
It might be too costly (at the start) for QAEC to pursue on this direction but the integrity, confidentiality, availability and genuinness of the information is more important over anything else with respect to the interest (where the whole world watch and can be one) of the stakeholders.
The said criteria might also be true to other settings where stability during the event and unploughed information system is expected.
In the case of a critical information infrastructure, there might be a one-sided answer that IT specialists would at first hand consider before dealing on any other security solutions. Look at how internetworks is link on one end to the other. There are many different ways a multiple network sites could be interconnected, most popularly through the Internet, however the choice still depends on the kind of data that flows through it. Say at Qwerty Auto Elec Company (QAEC in short, fictitious organization name only), the riches and biggest, wanted all of its domestic and international offices linked altogether and must be secured without regard to drawbacks. It does not want its information leaked, no unauthorized access and ingress attacks (e.g. DOS) on the physical and logical layer of the network, et al. Considering no internal misconduct or conspiracy will happen QAEC wanted to achieve a 99.999 if not 100 percent network stability, at least, for a certain time period.
The combination of firewall, VPN and cryptography, to support the security of a large and geographically diverse computing processes, are worthy of the requirements, still, they may only be second to how the network infrastructure is designed and erected. With the initial specification QAEC has laid out, it may need a confined circuit and shall not be interfaced to and from the public Internet. It would require the telco to install it just like how a local area network is rendered or even better, if any.
It might be too costly (at the start) for QAEC to pursue on this direction but the integrity, confidentiality, availability and genuinness of the information is more important over anything else with respect to the interest (where the whole world watch and can be one) of the stakeholders.
The said criteria might also be true to other settings where stability during the event and unploughed information system is expected.
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