From a distance, the concept of e-commerce security seems simple. Just allow authorized people to transact business securely and efficiently through the Internet, and keep unauthorized people away from valuable information. But in today's impersonal and global economy, how can a business or...

The role of information technology (IT) has becoming increasingly important in both private and public sectors over recent years. The advent of personal computers, information networks, and the Internet has engendered an information revolution, which has created new means of production, new...

Increasing every day in frequency and sophistication, planned cyber attacks are impacting systems, data and user access at virtually every business and government organization. Whether accidentally triggered by users opening their daily e-mail, or planned denial of services attack triggering a...

In response to increasingly high customer demands and formidable competition, today's organizations have implemented new technologies that generate and collect massive volumes of data. However, a large majority of the data collected goes to waste or becomes obsolete. Inconsistency, repetition,...