MEASURING AND INDICATING THE LEVEL OF INFORMATION SECURITY – AN ANALYSIS OF CURRENT APPROACHES

In times of increasing digitalization of processes in companies the topic of information security has become relevant for every industry. For this, a standardization of information security with normative standards such as ISO/IEC 27001:2022 has been established to define requirements and to assess at regular intervals the conformity of the management systems. However, practice shows that companies are fulfilling the requirements only at a minimum level and don’t have a real overview of their security level and the impact of existing risks. This paper evaluates how decision makers in companies currently interpret their security level using metrics. Regarding this, the relationship with effectiveness and conformity of their information security measures are shown and analyzed. Furthermore, in this paper a selection of the most common used practices and frameworks for measuring and certifying information security systems has been analyzed. The results of this research show that there is a need for on overall security perspective and include a proposal on how a structured approach should be defined

The Economic Impact of the Value Chain of a Marcellus Shale Well

The Economic Impact of the Value Chain of a Marcellus Shale Well Site examines the direct economic impact of a Marcellus Shale well located in Southwestern Pennsylvania. This study seeks to fill a critical information gap on the impact of gas drilling and extraction from Marcellus Shale deposits deep underground: an assessment of the economic impacts – emphasizing the direct economic impact, rather than just focusing on the perceived benefits and impacts affecting the region. Our analysis is based on extensive field research, including a site visit and interviews with industry participants. It is further cross-validated by examining similar costs for development of Marcellus Wells by a vertically-integrated exploration and production firm

Automation of the UNICARagil Vehicles

The German research project UNICARagil is a collaboration between eight universities and six industrial partners funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It aims to develop innovative modular architectures and methods for new agile, automated vehicle concepts. This paper summarizes the automation approach of the driverless vehicle concept and its modular realization within the four demonstration vehicles to be built by the consortium. On-board each vehicle, this comprises sensor modules for environment perception and modelling, motion planning for normal driving and safe halts, as well as the respective control algorithms and base functionalities like precise localization. A control room and cloud functionalities provide off-board support to the vehicles, which are additionally addressed in this paper

Tuning the Microcavity of Organic Light Emitting Diodes by Solution Processable Polymer–Nanoparticle Composite Layers

In this study, we present a simple method to tune and take advantage of microcavity effects for an increased fraction of outcoupled light in solution-processed organic light emitting diodes. This is achieved by incorporating nonscattering polymer–nanoparticle composite layers. These tunable layers allow the optimization of the device architecture even for high film thicknesses on a single substrate by gradually altering the film thickness using a horizontal dipping technique. Moreover, it is shown that the optoelectronic device parameters are in good agreement with transfer matrix simulations of the corresponding layer stack, which offers the possibility to numerically design devices based on such composite layers. Lastly, it could be shown that the introduction of nanoparticles leads to an improved charge injection, which combined with an optimized microcavity resulted in a maximum luminous efficacy increase of 85% compared to a nanoparticle-free reference device