Malicious

Tliis source includes fires started maliciously (e.g., by employees, intruders, or professional arsonists). 

The policy cover may be extended to include damage to assets from extra perils if the necessary additional premium is paid. These include storm damage, floodwater, burst water pipes or tanks, aircraft, riot, malicious damage or impact by mechanical vehicles. It is also possible to include an item to cover architects , surveyors and consultants fees and legal fees all incurred in the reinstatement of the property insured, as well as a sum to cover the costs of removing debris from the site before rebuilding can start. 

The theft policy extends to cover damage to premises caused in furtherance of theft or attempted theft, but malicious damage itself without theft is normally covered as an extension to the fire policy. 

The manufacturing and quality control departments face higher costs because they have to eliminate process and measurement variability, even if they are already operating at the technological limit. They will have to add people to their staffs to mn all of the investigations and handle the additional paperwork (because malicious intent is suspected, peers and supervisors have to sign off at every step to confirm that each SOP was strictly adhered to whether the SOPs made sense, scientifically speaking, or were installed to satisfy formalistic requirements is of no interest here). 

Fear of Fraud It is illuminating that there are companies that lock the input to a computer system (specifically a so-called LIMS, a Laboratory Information Management System) in such a manner that it takes the supervisor s password and signature to correct a missed keystroke, even if this is noticed before the (Enter) key is pressed. If the unwitnessed use of the (Backspace) key betrays malicious intent to falsify raw data, then every scientist should be in jail. 

A description of alternative steps that are available, or that the petitioner has already taken, to reduce the likelihood that the product or drug class will be the subject of malicious adulteration. 

Name derived from Kobold (German malicious mountain troll, who hindered smelting, especially when the ore contained arsenic)... 

It is well known that in order to be effective against malicious users, a watermarking scheme must satisfy at least the following requirements [4] ... 

Robustness It is difficult for any user to destroy the watermark without downgrading the quality, or altering the functionality of the object. Therefore, even when a watermarked object is modified by a malicious user, the verification algorithm still succeeds with high probability when run by the possessor, but nevertheless succeeds with low probability when carried out by malicious users. 

Resiliency Since it is usually desirable in practice to sell one intellectual property to many users, any coalition of legitimate users should not be able to destroy the watermark. It means given multiple watermarked copies of the same object, a malicious is unable to locate and to remove, or to change, the watermark into one of his own. Otherwise, a malicious group of users will be able to claim illegal ownership of a copyrighted object, or be able to transfer it to another third party. 

Although these cause-and-effect relationships may be difficult to establish at times ( God is subtle ), they nevertheless do exist ( he is not malicious ). 

Threats of Concern Terrorist acts can be the most problematic to defend against since they may be more extreme or malevolent than other crimes focused on monetary gains or outcomes with less malicious intent. Plus terrorists may use military tactics not often provided for in base chemical facility design. Chemical facility security must be considered in context with local and national homeland security and law enforcement activities, as well as with emergency response capabilities. There is a practical limit to the ability of a chemical site to prevent or mitigate a terrorist act. Above a certain level of threat, the facility needs to rely on law enforcement and military services to provide physical security against extreme acts of intentional harm. The security posture must be risk-based, and so extremely robust security measures are not always applicable or necessary. 

In the case of malicious acts, the layers or rings of protection must be particularly robust because the adversaries are intentionally attempting to breach the protective features and can be counted on to use whatever means are available to be successful. This could include explosions or other initiating events that result in widespread common-cause failures. Some particularly motivated adversaries might commit suicide while attempting to breach the security layers of protection. 

Control systems, such as SCADA, can be vulnerable to cyber attacks. Entities or individuals with malicious intent might take one or more of the following actions to successfully attack control systems ... 

To be able to effectively respond to cyber attacks, establish an intrusion detection strategy that includes alerting network administrators of malicious network activity originating from internal or external sources. Intrusion detection system monitoring is essential twenty-four hours a day this capability can be easily set up through a pager. Additionally, incident response procedures must be in place to allow an... 

Release data related to the SCADA network only on a strict, need-to-know basis, and only to persons explicitly authorized to receive such information. Social engineering, the gathering of information about a computer or computer network via questions to naive users, is often the first step in a malicious attack on computer networks. The more information revealed about a computer or computer network, the more vulnerable the computer/network is. Never divulge data revealed to a SCADA network, including the names and contact information about the system operators/administrators, computer operating systems, and/or physical and logical locations of computers and network systems over telephones or to personnel unless they are explicitly authorized to receive such information. Any requests for information by unknown persons need to be sent to a central network security location for verification and fulfillment. People can be a weak link in an otherwise secure network. Conduct training and information awareness... 

In the years to come she would openly accuse Marie-Antoinette of the same sin. This was one of the malicious charges that contributed to the queens demise. It was thus Marie-Antoinette herself who ultimately paid the highest price of this tawdry affair she lost her dignity, a diamond necklace— and, eventually, her head. 

Disciplinary action may be appropriate if malicious or criminal intent is positively identified as a root cause. An example would be when an investigation reveals horseplay, practical jokes, fights, or even sabotage was among the root causes. These activities have no place in any workplace and are especially undesirable in the chemical processing industry. It is most likely that a company s employee handbook, human resources documents, or union contract addresses these situations and communicates the policy in advance of an incident. In short, the investi-... 

Implement a policy that does NOT punish individuals when their errors lead to incidents and near misses (except for malfeasance or acts of malicious intent, such as fights and sabotage). 

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