14 Results for information technology

Business continuity is of great importance to organizations and continually attempt to find better ways to protect the availability of information through technology. There are three business drivers that have brought this issue to the forefront of management and boardroom discussions. They are th...
Computers have gone long way from its first invention to today\'s high speed machine that plays big role in mathematical modeling to the fields of medicine. Further down as the computers reduced in sizes they took on different purposes in communication, digital media (photography and now DVD), sho...
If figures must be believed, the virtual world is not exactly a safe venue for business or private affairs. In its sixth annual Computer Crime and Security Survey in 2001, the Computer Security Institute of San Francisco reported on mounting financial losses to computer crimes and ot...
Introduction/Summary The Internet has become a greater medium of communication, data exchange, and entertainment over the past 5 years. With this widespread growth of Internet access, there come growing pains. These growing pains come in the form of people who are up to no good and want to ru...
How many people make purchases online? What is the percentage of Americans who conduct their personal financial business over the Internet? Did he or she ever think that their credit card information could possibly be stolen? Internet security for online buyers and eMerchants has become more of a...
China and the InternetThe worldwide network of computers known as the Internet poses an interesting dilemma to the government of China. The widespread and cheap access to unrestricted information that the Internet offers could pose a serious threat to the authoritarian government of China. In cont...
Computer Hacking Precis of 'Who's reading your E-mail" by Richard Behars The article exposes the vulnerability of computer data and of corporations with the popularity of the Internet. The Internet can allow hackers access to any computer in the world, with understated ease. Break-ins can go virtu...
Network Security As networks are growing broader and larger there needs to be a system to protect and secure the information on the net. Importance of network Networks are formed to share information, communicate, share single hardware devices like printers, scanners, etc. Businesses a...
Computers have taken over our lives. People could not function without them, our electricity is run by computers, the government could not function without computers, and there are many others. Hackers are people who illegally gain access to, and sometimes tamper with, information in a computer sy...
Explain the ways in which hacking is an offence under the UK Computer Misuse Act (1990). Illustrate your answers with examples and cases from the news or text books. Definition of Hacker: "Someone who uses computer skills to gain unauthorized access to computer systems", or "A mal...
To deal with hackers who break through office systems through the Internet it is important for information managers to understand their enemy well. If they have sound background knowledge about hackers, they might be prepared to deal with them in a much more effective method. Hackers are very educa...
Term Paper Social Security The Social Security review as mandated by the Government Performance Act of 1993 specifically focuses on five selected areas to assess the agency's performance. These areas are as follows: 1. Providing timely, accurate, and useful information and services to...
Consumer BehaviorWhat is Cyber Terrorism? (Consumer View)When you say terrorism many people think of bombing and physical actions taken towards other people. You usually don't think of the internet. Cyber terrorism is one of the largest points of attack in America, simply because people don't think...
Net-I - Development ProposalDuring the past two months, several teams of this company's software development unit have been conducting widespread research, specifically targeting administrators of large volume organisational computer networks, as to what problems and difficulties that are often enco...