Assurance mechanisms are an important element of relational governance and frequently used in information systems (IS) research; still missing in this field, however, is a coherent and interrelated structure to organize available knowledge. In this study, we provide a first step towards development of a conceptualization framework of relational assurance mechanisms to enable their further inves...

This paper introduces an approach to this challenge being developed by a working group of the American Society for Quality, Education Division. Its fundamental concept is that the ISO-9000 approach to quality management, already being developed by leading schools, can be extended to individual learning. If properly set up and followed, a learner will establish, demonstrate, and continuously imp...

1 Work was completed while the author was at NAI Labs. Abstract The DARPA Information Assurance Program has the aim of developing and executing experiments that test specific hypotheses about defense in depth and dynamic defense capabilities. This paper describes the development and execution of an experiment in layering. The basic hypothesis was that layers of defense, when added in a careful ...

In this paper, we propose the necessary steps in implementing strong WLAN security for companies using our visual security assessment framework for wireless information assurance. Through real case studies on the organisations with various security measures and by showing complete execution paths of our framework, we suggest the importance of continual assessment of the WLAN for strong corporat...

The market of automated translation quality assurance tools offers quite a limited set of applications with the same well-known functionality as they offered a few years ago. The purpose of this paper is to review the automated translation quality assurance process, to describe several improvements we implemented in Verifika® and to provide measurement of their efficiency. In this paper we will...

Recent information systems have become large and complex by interacting with each other via networks. This makes assuring dependability of systems much more difficult than ever before. For this problem, we observe that requirement elicitation and risk analysis methods should be tightly connected with assurance methods. Furthermore, requirements should be ensured also in operation in such open e...

Privacy concerns can greatly hinder consumers’ intentions to interact with a website. The success of a website therefore depends on its ability to improve consumers’ perceptions of privacy assurance. Seals and assurance statements are mechanisms often used to increase this assurance; however, the findings of the extant literature regarding the effectiveness of these tools are mixed. We propose ...

F EED manufacturers are often forced by circumstances to focus on short-term concerns such as: How many tons were produced this week? How many customers do I have, or how much down time did I have this week? While important, shortterm problems can cause manufacturers to focus on solving problems rather than pursuing the company’s mission. Manufacturers who regularly examine their company’s miss...