Current Security Management & Ethical Issues of Information Technology

Current Security Management & Ethical Issues of Information Technology

Copyright: © 2003 |Pages: 308

ISBN13: 9781931777438|ISBN10: 1931777438|EISBN13: 9781931777599

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-931777-43-8

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Corporate and individual behaviors are increasingly scrutinized as reports of scandals around the world are frequently becoming the subject of attention. Additionally, the security of data and information and ethical problems that arise when enforcing the appropriate security initiatives are becoming prevalent as well. Current Security Management & Ethical Issues of Information Technology focuses on these issues and more, at a time when the global society greatly needs to re-examine the existing policies and practices.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

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Information Systems Security

Chapter 1

Network Security Software (pages 1-41)

Göran Pulkkis, Kaj J. Grahn, Peik Åström

This chapter is a topical overview of network security software and related skills needed by network users, IT professionals, and network security specialists. Covered topics are protection against viruses and other malicious...

Chapter 2

A Forensic Computing Perspective on the Need for Improved User Education for Information Systems Security Management (pages 42-49)

Vlasti Broucek, Paul Turner

This chapter is divided to two parts. Part one identifies common security and privacy weaknesses that exist in e-mail and WWW browsers and highlights some of the major implications for organisational security that result from...

Chapter 3

Integrating Cooperative Engagement Capability into Network-Centric Information System Security (pages 50-62)

Sr. Korzyk

The U.S. military’s concept of a Cooperative Engagement Capability should serve as a useful referent for those attempting to design/develop large scale, organization-wide information security systems. This concept involves...

Chapter 4

A Methodology for Developing Trusted Information Systems: The Security Requirements Analysis Phase (pages 63-96)

Maria Grazia Fugini, Pierluigi Plebani

In building cooperative distributed information systems, a methodology for analysis, design and implementation of security requirements of involved data and processes is essential for obtaining mutual trust between cooperating...

Chapter 5

A National Information Infrastructure Model for Information Warfare Defence (pages 97-110)

Vernon Stagg, Matthew Warren

Information infrastructures are an eclectic mix of open and closed networks, private and public systems, the Internet, and government, military, and civilian organisations. Significant efforts are required to provide infrastructure...

Chapter 6

Biometrics: Past, Present and Future (pages 111-132)

Stewart T. Fleming

This chapter discusses the current state of the art of biometric systems. The use of biometrics is an important new part of the design of secure computer systems. However, many users view such systems with deep suspicion and many...

Chapter 7

User Types and Filter Effectiveness: A University Case Study (pages 133-147)

Geoffrey Sandy, Paul Darbyshire

As the amount of content on the Web grows almost exponentially, one of the new growth industries is that of filtering products. The effectiveness of Web-filtering software depends on a number of factors including the architecture of...

Ethics and Social Responsibility in the Information Age

Chapter 8

What is the Social Responsibility in the Information Age? Maximising Profits? (pages 149-164)

Bernd Carsten Stahl

Social responsibility is a highly popular term, and it seems to be of importance to what is happening in the information age. In this paper, the notion of social responsibility is analysed and its relationship to the information age...

Chapter 9

The Social Contract Revised: Obligation and Responsibility in the Information Society (pages 165-186)

Robert Joseph Skovira

This chapter introduces the social contract as a basis for personal and corporate responsibility and obligation. I briefly discuss three perspectives on the nature of the social contract: the Hobbesean, the Lockean, and the...

Chapter 10

The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Technological Change: The Case of High-Tech States in the U.S. (pages 187-213)

Rasool Azari, James Pick

This paper examines the technological level of 74 counties in technologically advanced states in the United States at the end of the 1990s. The conceptual framework is that selected socioeconomic dimensions influence the level of...

Chapter 11

Social Responsibility and the Transition Toward a Knowledge-Based Society in Latin America (pages 214-221)

Heberto J. Ochoa-Morales

In Latin America, the proliferation of regional and multilateral agreements with integration as a purpose has generated a high flow of goods, services, and investments among these countries. From the economic perspective, the outcome...

Chapter 12

Information Systems Ethics in the USA and in the Arab World (pages 222-235)

Husain Al-Lawatia, Thomas Hilton

This chapter explores similarities and differences between two cultures, the USA and the Arab World, in BIS ethics, through a survey of American and Arab students on personal use of organizational computers, use of organizational IS...

Chapter 13

Lemon Problems in the Internet Transactions and Relative Strategies (pages 236-248)

Li Qi, Zhang Xianfeng

Based on some new traits of the Internet environment, this chapter discusses lemon problems in the Internet transactions. It points out that the information asymmetry does not disappear, but develops to be even worse under the new...

Chapter 14

Reputation, Reputation System and Reputation Distribution - An Exploratory Study in Online Consumer-to-Consumer Auctions (pages 249-266)

Zhangxi Lin, Dahui Li, Wayne Huang

Reputation is an important organization asset, particularly in the era of e-commerce. In an online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) auction market, a trader’s reputation sends an important signal to his/her trading partners in their...

Chapter 15

Privacy Perspective from Utilitarianism and Metaphysical Theories (pages 267-278)

Hasan A. Abbas, Salah M. Al-Fadhly

The Internet is a hot issue nowadays because of its important role at different levels. The topic of privacy is a debatable issue: we read in the research field scholars for and against applying this concept in real life and how to...

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