How functional and secure AES is? The Philippine electorate will once again go to polls and decide who will lead the nation in the next six years of their lives. This important event which will elect new president, vice president and 12 senators for national posts, and seats are also being contested for provincial, city and municipal levels, is expected to be counted unofficially in 24 hours, concluded or canvassed officially in a few days or so but authorities and observers expected it to be done in less than a week. Last presidential election, it was known three days after close of election precincts. This is especially true for nation states, not only the Philippines, that conducts their elections using automated election or computerized-and-networked voting systems. In PH, the past automated elections were encumbered with technical issues and fraudulent results, uttered and written everywhere by many concerned and affected individuals and institutions alike. This time, we could say
The earlier pronouncements about the top 3 layers of the OSI model, L8-10 of the (bold texts are added here) made sense in our world nowadays. They constitute the real requirements where a computing practitioner must perform its job a little better to achieve stability and sustainability in business-enabling and related technological facilities.
Layer 8 - The individual person—Technical (but fundamental)
Layer 9 – The organization—Administrative
Layer 10 – The government and international standards including management systems—Conformance or compliance
Without these, we never have been able to distinguished a job, that is final from the all on-going related tasks and non-stopping events concerning business-IT programs and projects. Much so for an IT operations that can be made upright until it fails, that's not having the regular maintenance it requires. Without the technical individual here, there is not much, even all the layers combined, can do for a business-computing systems that can be considered strategic, effective and efficient.
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