The standards applicable to Information Security are legion, from the purely technical, low-level specification of crypto protocols to the high-level organisational management frameworks. Industrial Control Systems among them the Information Systems in Critical Infrastructure still present their own set of challenges and quirks, despite the convergence trend towards mainstream information techn...

Thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. It is a very special privilege for me. (For the record, I have included some of my personal background at the end of this testimony.) My written statement addresses some of the fundamental risks facing us in our present uses of computer-communications technology, and assess how those risks might change as we depend increasingly on that te...

Information systems development methodologies are still mainly concerned with the research of better ways to provide technical solutions for given organizational problems. The paper challenges the appropriateness of this scope of development methodologies when system development deals with the deployment of information infrastructures. The attempt of the Italian Ministry of Justice to deploy ej...

Imagine you are the person responsible for the application portfolio of a large insurance company. For their business the company runs one monolithic system for most of its product divisions1. This system is 25 years old, written in Assembler and sits on an IMS/DB database. This is the old town. It’s at the end of it’s potential growth and people want to move out of it to the other side of the ...

BACKGROUND Improving health in our nation requires strengthening four major domains of the health care system: personal health management, health care delivery, public health, and health-related research. Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. A national health information infrastructure (NHII) offer...