February 17, 2013 12:02 AM
Posted by: Robert Davis
Adaptive Systems,
Assurance Services,
Attestation,
Control Evaluation,
Control System,
Due Care,
Educational Institutions,
Internal Control System,
Logical Security,
Non-profit,
Open Source,
Operating Style,
Quality Assurance Program,
Security Risks,
Trust ManagementTo provide an appropriate answer to this foundational question regarding Wikipedia an assessor must take into consideration the primary traits of reliability. Therefore, as previously stated in Wikipedia: An assessment from a user's perspective - part 1 as well as documented in
February 14, 2013 1:45 PM
Posted by: Robert Davis
Adaptive Systems,
Assurance Services,
Attestation,
Control Evaluation,
Control System,
Due Care,
Educational Institutions,
Internal Control System,
Logical Security,
Non-profit,
Open Source,
Operating Style,
Quality Assurance Program,
Security Risks,
Trust ManagementWikipedia is often been presented as a great research resource; however it is also a public forum, where any authorized user can make a declaration or an assertion. “If you find an article that provides relevant information for your research topic, you should take care to investigate the source...
February 9, 2013 5:48 PM
Posted by: Robert Davis
Adaptive Systems,
Assurance Services,
Attestation,
Control Evaluation,
Control System,
Due Care,
Educational Institutions,
Internal Control System,
Logical Security,
Non-profit,
Open Source,
Operating Style,
Quality Assurance Program,
Security Risks,
Trust ManagementAs conveyed by TechTarget.com, “Identity management (ID management) is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system (such as a country, a network, or an enterprise) and controlling their access to resources within that system by associating user rights and...
February 7, 2013 2:55 AM
Posted by: Robert Davis
Adaptive Systems,
Assurance Services,
Attestation,
Control Evaluation,
Control System,
Due Care,
Educational Institutions,
Internal Control System,
Logical Security,
Non-profit,
Open Source,
Operating Style,
Quality Assurance Program,
Security Risks,
Trust ManagementFollowing the framework outlined in IT Auditing: An Adaptive System, a critical aspect of an IT assessment is the identification of related risks. Though Wikipedia Project Administrators commonly disavow their Internet endeavors are based on a Social Networking System (SNS), their...
March 3, 2009 4:05 AM
Posted by: Robert Davis
Applications,
HDLC,
Infrastructure,
Network Access Protection,
P2P,
Password-Protected Share,
Peer-to-Peer,
Performance,
Privacy,
Security Risks,
Share-level Security,
X.25Maybe, experientially, the small branch office with a P2P network has escaped a security incident since deployment. Even so, a functional P2P network unintentionally presents itself as a potential target waiting for someone capable of pulling the threat trigger to introduce a potent security...
February 26, 2009 6:49 PM
Posted by: Robert Davis
Applications,
Infrastructure,
Network Access Protection,
P2P,
Password-Protected Share,
Peer-to-Peer,
Performance,
Privacy,
Security Risks,
Share-level SecurityThere are a variety of networking architectures available for deployment. Potential candidates include Peer-to-Peer, Client/Server and Master/Slave. However, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architectures present unique governance issues to the information...
