Abstract: A compliance user or auditor is enabled to inject failures into a sandbox environment, which may be similar to a production service. The sandbox environment may be monitored by the same automation that watches compliance controls in the production service. As the user injects compliance failures into the sandbox, they may detect the appropriate alerts fire in the monitoring system, thereby gaining trust that the monitoring works as it should. A rich report resulting from the test activities may allow the user or auditor to see how a failure of a compliance control leads to the expected monitoring alert.

Abstract: An insole with a nanopedometer for step counting and the measurement of information parameters obtained by the same device, as well as a shoe or sneaker with said insole.

Abstract: Allocation of computing threads can include receiving a registration of a workload, the registration including a workload classification and a workload priority; monitoring statuses of a plurality of resources; identifying, by a computing device, a thread of a resource from the plurality of resources, the thread being programmed to execute a task associated with the workload; evaluating, by the computing device, the workload classification and the workload priority of the workload with workload classifications and workload priorities of other workloads requesting the thread; and allocating the thread to one of the workloads based on evaluation of the workload classification and the workload priority.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for allocating threads includes: receiving a registration of a workload, the registration including a workload classification and a workload priority; monitoring statuses of a plurality of resources; identifying, by a computing device, a thread of a resource from the plurality of resources, the thread being programmed to execute a task associated with the workload; evaluating, by the computing device, the workload classification and the workload priority of the workload with workload classifications and workload priorities of other workloads requesting the thread; and allocating the thread to one of the workloads based on evaluation of the workload classification and the workload priority.

Abstract: A compliance application automatically produces certification controls by translating framework controls. The framework controls are common certification controls used in production of the certification. The application retrieves framework controls including metadata from a compliance framework data store. Metadata of the framework controls map the framework controls to the certification. In addition, the application retrieves certification parity data associated with the metadata. Certification controls are produced based on the framework controls and the certification parity data. A view of the certification including the certification controls is provided to a customer requesting the certification.

Abstract: A compliance application automatically produces certification controls by translating framework controls. The framework controls are common certification controls used in production of the certification. The application retrieves framework controls including metadata from a compliance framework data store. Metadata of the framework controls map the framework controls to the certification. In addition, the application retrieves certification parity data associated with the metadata. Certification controls are produced based on the framework controls and the certification parity data. A view of the certification including the certification controls is provided to a customer requesting the certification.

Abstract: A compliance user or auditor is enabled to inject failures into a sandbox environment, which may be similar to a production service. The sandbox environment may be monitored by the same automation that watches compliance controls in the production service. As the user injects compliance failures into the sandbox, they may detect the appropriate alerts fire in the monitoring system, thereby gaining trust that the monitoring works as it should. A rich report resulting from the test activities may allow the user or auditor to see how a failure of a compliance control leads to the expected monitoring alert.

Abstract: A cloud service system may activate features or functionality based on agreement of at least two parties such as a system administrator and a compliance officer to mitigate compliance, security, or privacy impact on the service. The controllers may make the “enable feature” decision independently, but still have equal say in the outcome. In some examples, pre-established profiles may be provided to a controller such as a compliance officer to make decisions by selection on his/her behalf at a particular level of risk acceptance and/or to meet a particular regulatory standard/certification.

Abstract: A certification application automatically generates a certification document associated with a service. A transformation module retrieves a component information associated with a status of a service from a data store maintaining the component information. The component security data and component metadata is included within the component information. The component information is transformed for insertion into a certification information. Risk analysis, phraseology, and localization data is used to transform the component information. The certification document is generated based on the certification template by inserting the component information into the certification template.

Abstract: A certification application automatically generates a certification document associated with a service. A transformation module retrieves a component information associated with a status of a service from a data store maintaining the component information. The component security data and component metadata is included within the component information. The component information is transformed for insertion into a certification information. Risk analysis, phraseology, and localization data is used to transform the component information. The certification document is generated based on the certification template by inserting the component information into the certification template.

Abstract: The described implementations relate to processing of electronic data. One implementation is manifest as a system that can include logic and at least one processing device configured to execute the logic. The logic can be configured to receive a first task request to execute a first task that uses a resource when performed. The first task can have an associated first level of interactivity. The logic can also be configured to receive a second task request to execute a second task that also uses the resource when performed. The second task can have an associated second level of interactivity. The logic can also be configured to selectively throttle the first task and the second task based upon the first level of interactivity and the second level of interactivity.

Abstract: A compliance testing application automatically tracks risk of a high-value component of a service through compliance testing. The high-value component is monitored by executing one or more compliance tests to determine a compliance issue associated with the high-value component associated with a security level. The security level includes a set of instructions provided by a certification body setting standards associated with validating security parameters of the service. A self-healing script is executed in response to detecting a failure result associated with the one or more compliance tests. And, a record associated with the one or more compliance tests and the self-healing script is stored.

Abstract: A compliance application automatically produces certification controls by translating framework controls. The framework controls are common certification controls used in production of the certification. The application retrieves framework controls including metadata from a compliance framework data store. Metadata of the framework controls map the framework controls to the certification. In addition, the application retrieves certification parity data associated with the metadata. Certification controls are produced based on the framework controls and the certification parity data. A view of the certification including the certification controls is provided to a customer requesting the certification.

Abstract: A certification application automatically generates a certification document associated with a service. A transformation module retrieves a component information associated with a status of a service from a data store maintaining the component information. The component security data and component metadata is included within the component information. The component information is transformed for insertion into a certification information. Risk analysis, phraseology, and localization data is used to transform the component information. The certification document is generated based on the certification template by inserting the component information into the certification template.

Abstract: The described implementations relate to processing of electronic data. One implementation is manifest as a system that can include logic and at least one processing device configured to execute the logic. The logic can be configured to receive a first task request to execute a first task that uses a resource when performed. The first task can have an associated first level of interactivity. The logic can also be configured to receive a second task request to execute a second task that also uses the resource when performed. The second task can have an associated second level of interactivity. The logic can also be configured to selectively throttle the first task and the second task based upon the first level of interactivity and the second level of interactivity.

Abstract: Techniques to track resource usage statistics per transaction across multiple layers of protocols and across multiple threads, processes and/or devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, for example, a technique may comprise assigning an activity context to a request at the beginning of a first stage, where the activity context has an initial set of properties. The values of the properties may be assigned to the properties in the initial set during the first stage. The value of a property may be stored on a data store local to the first stage. The activity context may be transferred to a second stage when the request begins the second stage. The transferred activity context may include a property from the initial set of properties. The stored values may be analyzed to determine a resource usage statistic. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for allocating threads includes: receiving a registration of a workload, the registration including a workload classification and a workload priority; monitoring statuses of a plurality of resources; identifying, by a computing device, a thread of a resource from the plurality of resources, the thread being programmed to execute a task associated with the workload; evaluating, by the computing device, the workload classification and the workload priority of the workload with workload classifications and workload priorities of other workloads requesting the thread; and allocating the thread to one of the workloads based on evaluation of the workload classification and the workload priority.

Abstract: The dual purpose wine bottle wax removal tool is a linear hand held metallic or other sturdy material whereby one end of the tool is a slightly bent, angular shaped tip for the purpose of insertion and removal of wax sealing material atop of many wine bottles. Additionally, the opposite end of the tool is comprised of one of many possible arrangements, compositions or construction for the purpose of prying off crimped bottle caps. Alternatively, the Single purpose version shall differ from the dual purpose version only by being devoid of a bottle opener and will necessarily have a larger handle comprised but not limited to rubber, plastic, metal or wood.

Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing and/or maintaining the prediction capability over time of a multivariate calibration model designed for quantitative optical spectroscopic measurement of attributes or analytes in bodily tissues, bodily fluids or other biological samples, which are particularly useful when the spectral absorbance of the attribute or analyte is small relative to the background. The present invention provides an optically similar reference sample to capture the characteristics of instrument and environmental variation and to reduce the effect of such variation on the measurement capability of the model. The optically similar reference is preferably stable over time and is designed such that its optical properties are sufficiently matched to the sample of interest that instrument and environmental variations are captured in the same manner in both the test sample of interest and the optically similar reference sample.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses of determining the pH of a sample. A method can comprise determining an infrared spectrum of the sample, and determining the hemoglobin concentration of the sample. The hemoglobin concentration and the infrared spectrum can then be used to determine the pH of the sample. In some embodiments, the hemoglobin concentration can be used to select an model relating infrared spectra to pH that is applicable at the determined hemoglobin concentration. In other embodiments, a model relating hemoglobin concentration and infrared spectra to pH can be used. An apparatus according to the present invention can comprise an illumination system, adapted to supply radiation to a sample; a collection system, adapted to collect radiation expressed from the sample responsive to the incident radiation; and an analysis system, adapted to relate information about the incident radiation, the expressed radiation, and the hemoglobin concentration of the sample to pH.