Major models of economic security evaluation at enterprises and their applicability to telecommunication companies

Purpose: This article aims at synthesizing existing research areas and approaches to assessing the level of economic security at the corporate level and adapt the results to the specifics of the telecommunication's industry. Effective study of the problem of economic security is possible only in case of the combination of distribution, market, and institutional paradigms, based on the combination of methodological and empirical-quantitative approaches. Design/Methodology/Approach: The article meaningfully describes the main approaches to the definition and methods for assessing the economic security of enterprises, as well as the applicability of these methods to Russian telecommunication's companies. Based on this analysis, strategic directions to ensure the economic security of modern Russian telecommunication's enterprises have been determined. Findings: Four strategic directions can be identified to improve economic security: improving telecommunication and information technologies; creating and selling new telecommunication products and services; improving business processes; increasing energy efficiency and production ecology. Practical Implications: The results of the analysis can be used to determine the main directions of ensuring the economic security of a telecommunication's company. Originality/Value: The originality of the authors'approach is to develop and test the conceptual approach to assessing the economic security of corporate entities and the opportunity for its industry adaptation to the features and business processes of specific types of economic activity.peer-reviewe

Regional E-Government - some problems from Czech regions point of view

The e-government should start with electronic collaboration of governmental departments. Several services, like email, video conference, discussion forums, use of shared documents, etc. should be supported for assisting the efficient and productive collaboration of remote governmental departments. Since the functionality of the provided services is well known, no detailed description of each service phase is provided. The services for citizens are offered through so called governmental portals. The typical use of a governmental portal is to provide information to the citizens and to support several types of citizen–government transactions (e.g. issuing birth certificates, submitting tax forms, conducting electronic payments, etc.). These services open security requirements for an e-Government platform. Their compilation has been based on the security requirements derived for each independent service suite, for the Authentication processes