Organizational, Legal, and Technological Dimensions of Information System Administration

Organizational, Legal, and Technological Dimensions of Information System Administration

Irene Maria Portela, Fernando Almeida

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 321

ISBN13: 9781466645264|ISBN10: 1466645261|EISBN13: 9781466645271

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4526-4

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Portela, Irene Maria, and Fernando Almeida, eds. Organizational, Legal, and Technological Dimensions of Information System Administration. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4526-4

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In addition to capital infrastructure and consumers, digital information created by individual and corporate consumers of information technology is quickly being recognized as a key economic resource and an extremely valuable asset to a company.

Organizational, Legal, and Technological Dimensions of Information System Administration recognizes the importance of information technology by addressing the most crucial issues, challenges, opportunities, and solutions related to the role and responsibility of an information system. Highlighting various aspects of the organizational and legal implications of system administration, this reference work will be useful to managers, IT professionals, and graduate students who seek to gain an understanding in this discipline.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing (ASASEHPC) Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Foreword

Preface

Chapters

The Role and Responsibility of the System’s Administrator

Chapter 1

The Role and Responsibilities of the System’s Administrator (pages 1-17)

Filipe Moreira, Joel Luz

In this chapter, the authors present an overview of the role and responsibilities of the system’s administrator. They start with giving a background description on how this activity has been changing within the last decades...

Chapter 2

Trust Management and Delegation for the Administration of Web Services (pages 18-37)

Michele Tomaiuolo

The availability and adoption of open protocols allow applications to integrate Web services offered by different providers. Moreover, simple services can be dynamically composed to accomplish more complex tasks. This implies the...

Chapter 3

Academic and Professional Qualifications of the Systems Administrator Required to Work in the Organizational Context (pages 38-55)

José Monteiro, Mário Lousã

This chapter presents the factors that influence the career of the systems administrator in the context of the organizations, namely the roles and the responsibilities. The objective is to provide a contribution to the future systems...

Legal and Regulatory Frameworks

Chapter 4

Beyond Compliance: Understanding the Legal Aspects of Information System Administration (pages 57-75)

Peter J. Wasilko

This chapter focuses on the relationship between law and information systems administration. It highlights how technological choices can facilitate regulatory compliance, reduce legal costs, and allow agile responses to emerging...

Chapter 5

Due Diligence in Cyberspace (pages 76-95)

Joanna Kulesza

Within the chapter, the author discusses the possibility of introducing an international due diligence standard for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). She analyzes the due diligence standard in public international law as the common...

Chapter 6

Criminal Liability of Organizations, Corporations, Legal Persons, and Similar Entities on Law of Portuguese Cybercrime: A Brief Discussion on the Issue of Crimes of “False Information,” the “Damage on Other Programs or Computer Data,” the “Computer-Software Sabotage,” the “Illegitimate Access,” the “Unlawful Interception,” and “Illegitimate Reproduction of the Protected Program” (pages 96-107)

Gonçalo S. de Melo Bandeira

In Portugal, and in much of the legal systems of Europe, “legal persons” are likely to be criminally responsibilities for cybercrimes, for example, “false information,” “damage on other programs or computer data,” “computer-software...

Chapter 7

Redressing Violations of Privacy: The Case of Portuguese “E-Invoice” (pages 108-118)

Irene Maria Portela

The chapter discusses the role of CNPD (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados) in case of violation of privacy, like dissemination or revelation of personal data by a public/private organization or entity. About this subject, the...

Privacy and Security

Chapter 8

Role of Cloud Systems as Enabler of Global Competitive Advantages (pages 120-138)

Fawzy Soliman

The goal of cloud systems is to provide easy, scalable access to computing resources and IT services. However, the ability of the cloud system to transfer knowledge to assist the innovator should also be a key objective of cloud...

Chapter 9

Cloud Computing: IT Governance, Legal, and Public Policy Aspects (pages 139-166)

Carlos Juiz, Victor Alexander de Pous

Cloud computing evolved as a key delivery model for Information Technology (IT) and data provision for both the private and public sectors. Addressing its governance, legal, and public policy aspects is a condition sine qua non for...

Chapter 10

Information Security and Information Assurance: Discussion about the Meaning, Scope, and Goals (pages 167-198)

Yulia Cherdantseva, Jeremy Hilton

Despite great interest of researchers and professionals in Information Security (InfoSec) and Information Assurance (IA), there is still no commonly agreed understanding of the disciplines. This chapter clarifies the meaning, scope...

Chapter 11

A Conceptual Framework for Big Data Analysis (pages 199-223)

Fernando Almeida, Mário Santos

Big data is a term that has risen to prominence describing data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. Big data is a disruptive force that will affect organizations across industries, sectors, and...

Survey and Case Studies

Chapter 12

The Role of Security Culture (pages 225-242)

Jo Malcolmson

This chapter provides a discussion of the importance of the wider organisational context that the network administrator needs to deal with by describing how the organisational culture can impact on the degree to which security can be...

Chapter 13

The 2011 Survey of Information Security and Information Assurance Professionals: Findings (pages 243-256)

Yulia Cherdantseva, Jeremy Hilton

Information Assurance (IA) is an intensively discussed discipline. Perhaps the most striking feature of IA is that everyone has a different opinion about what it actually is. The literature analysis enables us to distinguish three...

Chapter 14

Mitigation of Security Concerns of VoIP in the Corporate Environment (pages 257-269)

Fernando Almeida, José Cruz

The convergence of the voice and data worlds is introducing exciting opportunities to companies. As a consequence, Voice over IP (VoIP) technology is attracting increasing attention and interest in the industry. Flexibility and cost...

Chapter 15

Practical Approach for Data Breach Cases in ERP Systems (pages 270-281)

Pedro Sousa, José Costa, Vitor Manso

This chapter is based on a case study scenario where a major data breach happens in one institution of public sector, a municipality, in Portugal. The focus of this chapter is to explain the gap between software development and...

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