among others internal, regional, international, political, economic, technical, social and cultural factors are reasons that theorists introduce for beginning of integration at a region. by looking at the functions of the shanghai cooperation organization and the association of southeast asian nations (asean), we understand that there are two basic pragmatic factors, the support of the great po...

security priorities of a country are not only affected by its internal situation, but sometimes regional situation is also a determinant factor of these priorities. the effectiveness of regional situations is especially when the subject country has a growing economy. after the collapse of ussr, the central asia had the same effect on china’s security priorities. china is an emerging global powe...

This paper discusses security issues and considers the extent to which internal relations among entities in a system should be taken into account when carrying out security analysis. We present a concrete and flexible security model expressed in terms of the internal relations in the system, rather than abstract state machines. Based on this model, security analysis can be carried out by decomp...

This paper reports on an evaluation of the test-retest reliability and internal consistency of the Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q), a measure designed to capture an individual’s knowledge, attitude and self-reported behaviour towards information security in the workplace. The analyses focused on responses from 197 working Australians, who completed two iterations of...

Most users find security-informed decisions hard to make while utilizing web sites for social networking, online banking, or shopping. In order to solve security problems, it is critical that we understand how human factors influence users’ trust on web sites and users’ decisions involving computer security related risk. We propose an integrative model of human factors on decisions involving on...