The potential for catastrophic cyber attacks that can cripple the operations of critical infrastructures of nations is worrying. The consequences of cyber attack to the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are wide, resulting in potentially catastrophic damages and disruption. This paper proposes for the Critical National Information Infrastructure (CNII) organizations to co...

Information security has been a crucial strategic issue in organizational management. Information security management is a systematic process of effectively coping with information security threats and risks in an organization. With the pressure of high implementation and maintenance cost, organizations need to distinguish between controls they need and those that are less critical. Applying cr...

This study identifies and evaluates certain critical pitfalls in the acquisition phase of ERP adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and develops a model for evaluating the risk of failure. On the acquisition stage a set of risks has been identified based on past research work and each of these risks have been explained through a set of well-defined risk factors or pitfalls. An evaluat...

Care for elderly patients undergoing orthopedic surgery, particularly for those requiring emergency surgery, needs to take into account an analysis of physical capacity and risks specific to elderly individuals, in an attempt to reduce the risks. Nevertheless, these remain high in this group. Despite the risks, procedures developed promptly have a positive effect on these patients' evolution. C...

Risks are unavoidable in systems engineering projects due to emerging changes during the lifetime of projects. Changes in activities and peoples’ roles are usually not free from conflicts, which in some cases if not dealt adequately, increase the project failure risks and could bring the whole project to a standstill. Herein, we present a method that examines the impact of change to project's d...

It's not just mainframe-based applications: servers and workstations pose significant Y2K problem risks for organizations and individuals. R esolving the problem of y2k compliance is a serious issue for the distributed enterprise. As organizations rely on distributed desktops for decision making and productivity, the risks associated with noncompliant desktops are receiving increased attention ...

August 2000 Software development and engineering is a rewarding endeavor, but not without risks and challenges. Efficiently managing these risks is critical and requires that all parties, including researchers, engineers, developers, programmers, and project managers keep the fundamentals of sound application development top-of-mind. Staying focused on the basics is an essential part of minimiz...

An aircraft flying inside hostile territory is exposed to the risk of getting detected and tracked by the enemy’s sensors, and subsequently hit by its weapons. This paper describes a combat survivability model that can be used for assessing the risks associated with a mission route. In contrast to previous work, the model describes both the risk of getting tracked and the risk of getting hit, a...

Business Process Management (BPM) is considered an essential strategy to create and maintain sustainable competitive advantage. While researchers are anxious to identify critical success factors for the management of business process related projects, the risks associated with these projects have received considerably less attention. This is a concern: Although BPM projects contain phases that ...

Security critical systems development needs to integrate both project and product risks assessment into the development. Such systems need to balance time to market constraints, cost demands, functional requirement, as well as security requirements. This advocate the use of techniques that support costeffective and risk-driven development. The aspect-oriented risk-driven development (AORDD) fra...