Authorized User

Information System in the work place

Chapter#4: Information security

• Untrusted network is any network external to your organization.

 

• Social engineering an attack where the attacker uses social skills to trick a legitimate employee into providing confidential company information such as passwords.

•  Compromises to intellectual property 

 

• Intellectual property Property created by individuals or corporations which is protected under trade secret, patent, and copyright.
  Trade secret Intellectual work, such as a business plan, that is a company secret.
  Patent Document that grants the holder exclusive rights on an invention or process for 20 years.
  Piracy Copying a software program without making payment to the owner.
  Virus is a segment of computer code that performs malicious actions by attaching to another computer program.
  Worm is a segment of computer code that performs malicious actions and will spread by itself without requiring another computer program.
  Trojan horse is a computer program that hides in another computer program and reveals its designated behavior only when it is activated.
  Logic bomb is a segment of computer code that is embedded inside an organization’s existing computer programs and is designed to activate and perform a destructive action at a certain time or date.
  
  
  
  
  • Alien Software
  Spyware collects personal information about users without their consent.  Two types:
   keystroke loggers (keyloggers) and screen scrapers.  Keystroke loggers record your keystrokes and your Web browsing history.  Screen scrapers record a continuous movie of what you do on a screen.
  
  
  •  supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system is a large-scale, distributed, measurement and control system.
  
  
  • Risk Mitigation Strategies
  Risk Acceptance Accept the potential risk, continue operating with no controls, and absorb any damages that occur.
  Risk limitation Limit the risk by implementing controls that minimize the impact of threat.
  Risk transference Transfer the risk by using other means to compensate for the loss, such as purchasing insurance.
  
  

  

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ALL AROUND THE WORLD

Chapter#3: Code Of Ethics

• Responsibility: Accept the consequences of actions you have made.

• Accountability: Take the responsibility of your actions.

• Liability: Cover your damages.

Chapter#3 : Ethical Issues

• Ethical behavior approaches:

1. Utilitarian Approach: Most good than harm. Example: Announcing that a student got a high mark on his exam.
2. Rights Approaches: Moral rights, true decisions.
3. Fairness Approach: Treat everyone equally.
4. Common Good Approach: Good for everyone. Example : Health care and education institutions.

Online Advertising

Banners

Pop-up Ad

 

Pop-under Ad

Permission marketing

 

Viral Marketing

 

 

 



 

Limitation of E-Commerce

• Technological Issues

1. Lack of security standards
2. Lack of telecommnunication issues

• Non-Tecnological Issues

1. Lack of sellers and buyers
2. unresolved legal issues

E-Commerce Business Models

• Online direct market

• Name your own price

• find the best price

• Viral marketing

• Group purchasing

• Online auctions ( Traditional way )

• Bartering online

• Product customization

• Deep discounts

• Membership

Chapter#7: Electronic Commerce

• E-commerce or Electronic Commerce is buying and selling online. However, E-business has a broader concept and E-Commerce is a part of it.

• Types of E-Commerce:

1. (B2C): Business done by consumers like OMAN AIR.
2. (B2B): Business done by organizations like SQU LIBRARY.
3. (C2C): Between individuals.

•  E-Commerce Mechanism:
• Auctions (forward and reverse):
• Forward Auctions: For the highest bids.
• Reverse Auctions: For the lowest bids.

•  Benefits of E-Commerce:

1. Social: Easy to deliver information, services, and products to people.
2. Customers: Access into huge amount of products.
3. Organizations: Make international markets more accessible.

• Limitation of E-Commerce:

1. Technological Limitation: Telecommunication issues in less-developed countries.
2. Our thinking of EC ( Electronic Commerce ) is unsecure.

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Networks All Around Us

Search Engines

Internet Address

Internet Address

• Domain name

• Top-level domain
• Name of the organization
• Name of the specific computer 
• Note# (Starting from right to left of the website)

Ways To Access The Internet

 

• Ways to access the internet

• Connecting Via online
• ADSL
• Cable Modern
• Satellite
• Wireless
• Fiber to the Home
• Internet kioks: Place where there is internet

Chapter#6 important notes: Computer networks

• What is a computer network? When all computer are connected to each other and work together exchanging data and information with each other.

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  What are broadband? Tolls for computer to communicate with each other. For example: Coaxial cable, fiber optics and wireless.

• Size of computer networks; Home computer network ( small network ), National computer network ( for the whole organization ), and global computer network ( world wide network ).

• What is LAN? Local Area Network. Example: SQU computers connect to each other.

• What is Enterprise Network? network within the organization and has a main controller or a server which control other computers.

• What does Analog and Digital Signals do? carry data to other computers/

• Most computer use Digital signals to send one data to another.