CPA\u27s guide to information security

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Secure use of the Internet by business

This study focuses on electronic data security issues and their applicability to SMEs.Prior to this project, no frame of reference had been identified or defined for:• The electronic data and Internet security needs of SMEs• The critical success factors for implementing and using a secureelectronic data and authentication solutionUsing a source of both primary and secondary research data, firstly, a trusted thirdparty infrastructure based on public key encryption and digital certificate technologywas designed and developed. This provided trust, integrity, confidentiality and nonrepudiation,all of which are essential components for secure static storage or Internettransmission of electronic data.The second stage was the implementation of this infrastructure in SMEs. The casestudies revealed a reluctance to implement and use the designed infrastructure bothduring and after the pilot implementation period. Further primary research wasundertaken to identify and explain the reluctance of SMEs to participate in pilotingthis Internet based technology.As a result of this research project, there are four major contributions to knowledge.These are,• A time series survey of SME Internet usage and attitudes in the GreaterManchester region. The initial stage of the research found that at the start ofthis project (1996/7), only one in three SMEs were using the Internet and thestage of usage was extremely basic (chapter 5.2.1). Towards the end of theproject (1998/9), Internet usage by SMEs had doubled and had become moresophisticated (chapter 7.2). Awareness of security needs had also risen, butwas still not a part of the overall network infrastructure of the majority ofsmall and medium sized organisations.• A framework for the analysis of the potential success or failure of theimplementation of a security solution in particular and new technology projectmore generally (chapter 9).• A framework that can act as broad guide for SMEs in the development of theirsecurity network infrastructures.• The use of organic methodology (chapter 3.3) to deal with the fast movingand changing environment of IT related research projects.A "Best Practice" guide has been developed based on these two models to help SMEsin the implementation of a data security solution in their own organisations.As well as raised awareness of the issues, the success factors also include reengineeringexisting business processes, changing traditional business thinking andcreating a level of commitment to the implementation of technology that will enableSMEs to thrive in the new markets of the 21st century

The Cryptographic Imagination

Originally published in 1996. In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity, and technology. Rosenheim argues that Poe's cryptographic writing—his essays on cryptography and the short stories that grew out of them—requires that we rethink the relation of poststructural criticism to Poe's texts and, more generally, reconsider the relation of literature to communication. Cryptography serves not only as a template for the language, character, and themes of much of Poe's late fiction (including his creation, the detective story) but also as a "secret history" of literary modernity itself. "Both postwar fiction and literary criticism," the author writes, "are deeply indebted to the rise of cryptography in World War II." Still more surprising, in Rosenheim's view, Poe is not merely a source for such literary instances of cryptography as the codes in Conan Doyle's "The Dancing-Men" or in Jules Verne, but, through his effect on real cryptographers, Poe's writing influenced the outcome of World War II and the development of the Cold War. However unlikely such ideas sound, The Cryptographic Imagination offers compelling evidence that Poe's cryptographic writing clarifies one important avenue by which the twentieth century called itself into being. "The strength of Rosenheim's work extends to a revisionistic understanding of the entirety of literary history (as a repression of cryptography) and then, in a breathtaking shift of register, interlinks Poe's exercises in cryptography with the hyperreality of the CIA, the Cold War, and the Internet. What enables this extensive range of applications is the stipulated tension Rosenheim discerns in the relationship between the forms of the literary imagination and the condition of its mode of production. Cryptography, in this account, names the technology of literary production—the diacritical relationship between decoding and encoding—that the literary imagination dissimulates as hieroglyphics—the hermeneutic relationship between a sign and its content."—Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth Colleg

Cyberidentities

This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and the culture of communication

The internet: a framework for understanding ethical issues.

The impact and influence of the Internet as a communications medium cannot be overstated. It has had a profound effect on economic, political, and other social infrastructures, and has introduced ways of communicating which have transformed social relationships. The Internet has opened up information exchange on a global scale, offering enormous opportunities and advantages to an hitherto unknown degree. The Internet has also raised a number of serious, and urgent, ethical challenges. The discussions and debate surrounding ethical issues such as trust, security and privacy, amongst others, conducted at all levels (international, government, academia and the popular press) in themselves are evidence of the complexity of the problem of Internet ethics. The research unravels some of the complexity and muddle of Internet ethics, with the objective of providing a foundation for further research. This thesis offers four perspectives on the problems of Internet ethics: technical, conceptual, regulatory and ethical. These different viewpoints are not only useful in drawing out insights concerning the ethical framework of the Internet, they also provide leverage for the analysis of pertinent issues. The work in this thesis thus offers a framework for understanding, and analysis, which can be developed and used in continuing investigations. The research is a combination of theory and practice - both informing each other. The approach taken arose from the author's direct involvement in many of the expert discussions and debates which (together with the literature), identified a need for foundational work. In-depth work with a number of specialised groups has provided the practical backdrop, and grounding to this research - published results appear as Appendices

Transportation noise pollution - Control and abatement

Control and abatement of transportation noise pollutio

Constitutive surveillance and social media

Starting from the premise that surveillance is the ‘dominant organising practice’ of our time (Lyon et al 2012: 1), this thesis establishes a framework of ‘constitutive surveillance’ in relation to social media, taking Facebook as its key example. Constitutive surveillance is made up of four forms: economic, political, lateral, and oppositional surveillance. These four surveillance forms – and the actors who undertake them – intersect, compound, and confront one another in the co-production of social media spaces. The framework of constitutive surveillance is structured around a Foucauldian understanding of power, and the thesis shows how each surveillance form articulates strategies of power for organising, administering, and subjectifying populations. After outlining the four surveillance forms, each chapter unpacks the relationship of one form to social media, building throughout the thesis an extensive critical framework of constitutive surveillance