Audit for Information Systems Security

The information and communication technologies advances made available enormous and vast amounts of information. This availability generates also significant risks to computer systems, information and to the critical operations and infrastructures they support. In spite of significant advances in the information security area many information systems are still vulnerable to inside or outside attacks. The existence of an internal audit for information system security increases the probability of adopting adequate security measures and preventing these attacks or lowering the negative consequences. The paper presents an exploratory study on informatics audit for information systems security.Information System Risks, Audit, Security

Social Informatics and the Dynamic of Contemporary Society

As the main engine of social development, education must adapt its new technological advancements to the benefit of the citizens and their needs by taking into account the building of a modern society that is based on knowledge. Computer technology becomes the most appropriate technical support, given the new challenges of the knowledge society. Within this context, the social informatics takes on new dimensions. Nowadays, information security is strongly connected to the investigation area of social informatics. Knowledge society and social informatics are being addressed in the paper in the first two parts. Information security in the contemporary society, within the context of building the knowledge society, is addressed in part three. In the fourth part, we propose the creation of an educational framework for the safe use of online virtual environment. Its purpose is primarily the awareness of the importance of security systems, taking into consideration the new challenges of social informatics in the modern society

Intelligent information retrieval tools for police. Intelligence and security informatics. Proceedings.

Intelligent information retrieval tools can help intelligence and security agencies to retrieve and exploit relevant information from unstructured information sources and give them insight into the criminal behavior and networks, in order to fight crime more efficiently and effectively. This article aims at analysing off-the-shelf information extraction tools on their applicability and competency for such applications.