U.S. health care delivery and administration have undergone transformations that create an expansive demand for health information technology. The concepts put forth in health care reform are reliant on an evolving health information technology infrastructure and the successes of both are dependent on consumer/patient "trust". Every action is interdependent. Each decision is a balance between e...

Networks increase interdependencies and this creates challenges for managing risks. This is especially apparent in areas such as security and enterprise risk management, where the actions of a single player in an interconnected network can wreak havoc on everyone in the network. The network, in this case, is only as strong as its weakest link. There are related problems in encouraging investmen...

Measures taken to decrease interdependent risks within chemical industrial areas should be based on quantitative data from a holistic (cluster-based) point of view. Therefore, this paper examines the typology of networks representing industrial areas to formulate recommendations to more effectively protect a chemical cluster against existing systemic risks. Chemical industrial areas are modeled...

The infrastructure networks of greatest importance to national security and stability include telecommunications, electrical power systems, gas and oil, banking and finance, transportation, water supply systems, government and emergency services. After the September 11, 2001 WTC attack, more sensors and surveillance systems are being deployed to monitor these critical infrastructures. While the...

eGovernment is faced with a number of complex issues, such as Internet security, data protection, and a multilingual user environment. There are two essential interdependent ingredients to surmounting these challenges: interoperability and innovation. Innovative solutions developed by the ICT industry promote interoperability. Meeting consumers’ expectations for interoperability must remain a c...

Organizations are increasingly dependent upon information systems to increase productivity, minimize cost, and maximize profit. This dependency results in exposure to new threats and vulnerabilities that dramatically increase operational risk. Executive management is ultimately responsible for insuring that this risk is properly managed to assure organizational health, profitability, and compli...

We study methods that allow web sites to safely combine JavaScript from untrusted sources. If implemented properly, filters can prevent dangerous code from loading into the execution environment, while rewriting allows greater expressiveness by inserting run-time checks. Wrapping properties of the execution environment can prevent misuse without requiring changes to imported JavaScript. Using a...

This paper predicts the malicious object prone site from the set of multi business portals of an organization or company. Graph theory is used to solve this problem as the diverted traffic of customers is interdependent among all the business portals. At first the interconnected business portals are represented in the form of a graph and its corresponding adjacency matrix. Later the centrality ...