Network security appears (at least to the author), in some respects, to have come full circle. Many of today’s so-called innovations in network security can in fact, at least in part, be traced back to having originally been implemented in one form or another in the decades-old Orange Book standards. Th e author, having worked with a firewall vendor that in the early 1990s had developed the f…
Eighty percent or more of major marine accidents are caused or influenced by humans and organizations. Research has identified characteristics of high reliability organizations (HRO), organizations which have had few accidents while involved in operations where failure would result in severe consequences. These characteristics have important effects on the safety of marine systems. Assessing …
Welcome to Information Systems for Business and Beyond. In this book, you will be introduced to the concept of information systems, their use in business, and the larger impact they are having on our world.
Few phenomena characterize our time more uniquely and powerfully than the rapid rise and influence of information technologies. These technologies have unleashed a tsunami of data that rolls over and flattens us in its wake. Taming this beast has become a primary goal of the information industry. One tool that has emerged from this effort…
Information is more abundant today than ever before. With smart‐ phones, activity monitors, smart watches, tablets, and new Internet- enabled appliances of every kind, we also have many more ways of interacting with it than before. This abundance and pervasiveness makes our lives better in many ways, but it also introduces new chal‐ lenges. With so much information available in so many plac…
On the face of it, you have to wonder why we do it. Why we work all the long hours, often making a less than comfortable income, and dealing with seemingly endless problems in all different areas of the business. Handling internal staffing issues, supplier problems, customer complaints, government paperwork, and technology challenges—some days it never seems to stop! Of course, we do it becau…
This chapter will cover the new features in the Lotus Notes 8.0 and 8.5 release. The first sections will cover the 8.0 client and the latter sections the 8.5 client. In the following sections, we will take a quick look at some of the major new features offered in the Lotus Notes 8 client. These include: User interface enhancements Mail enhancements Calendar enhancements Contacts (formerly known…
Aristotle came to Athens in 367 BCE at the age of 17, to go to university. ‘University’ in this case meant the Academy, the philosophical school founded by the great Plato, who himself had been a disciple of Socrates. Athens was the cultural centre of the Mediterranean, and its citizens might have had two reasons for not being immediately impressed by the young Aristotle. He came from the f…
As with the first three editions, this fourth edition of Strategic Information Management: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems aims to present the many complex and inter-related issues associated with the management of information systems in and between organizations. The primary audiences are M.B.A. or other Master’s level students and senior undergraduate students …
A computer network is the infrastructure that allows two or more computers (called hosts) to communicate with each other. The network achieves this by providing a set of rules for communication, called protocols, which should be observed by all participating hosts. The need for a protocol should be obvious: it allows different computers from different vendors and with different operating charac…
It is a matter of regret how little time is devoted to teaching mineral exploration in first degree university and college courses in the United Kingdom and in many other countries. As a result the few available textbooks tend to be expensive because of the limited market. By supplying our publisher with camera ready copy we have attempted to produce a cheaper book which will help to redress…
This guide book is intended to give owners of small dams (those under 15 metres in height) a basic understanding of the dam owners responsibilities with regard to the inspection, operation, maintenance, and reporting procedures for their dams. Large dams (those over 15 metres in height) may require additional operation, maintenance, surveillance (inspection), and reporting procedures that are …
This standard prescribes requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, to enable an organization to formulate a policy and objectives, taking into account legislative requirements and information about significant hazards and risks, whi~h the organization can control and over which it can be expected to have an influence, to protect its employees and others, whose…
Introduction and Overview Operational risk is now the focus of intense interest among industry participants, regulators and other observers. Concern has been prompted by a steady stream of significant operational risk losses at major international banks. Of all the different forms of risk which can affect firms, operational risk can be among the most devastating and the most difficult to anti…
Quality health information is essential for effective health planning, management and policy development at all levels of health care systems and in all contexts. Furthermore, quality assessment of health services is unattainable if the information used is of good quality. Paradoxically, establishment of effective health management information systems is a recent development in Nigeria. Th…