In the digital era, organization-wide information security risk assessment has gained importance because it can impact businesses in many ways. In this article, the authors propose a model to assess the information security risk using Fuzzy Petri Nets (FPN). Deeply rooted in the OCTAVE...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are commonly hosted as web servers for learners worldwide to access education and learning materials at low cost. Many of the well-known MOOCs have adopted open source software and database technologies and frequently operate within cloud environments. It is...

The present article aims to present the extended functionality of LDAP based systems (known as Directory Services) of handling multimedia information such as photographs. The most frequently used are JPEG encoded photos. Furthermore this article will explain how this multimedia functionality can...

Policy-based management for federated healthcare systems have recently gained increasing attention due to strict privacy and disclosure rules. While the work on privacy languages and enforcement mechanisms, such as Hippocratic databases, has advanced our understanding of designing...

Privacy is defined as the freedom from unauthorized intrusion. The availability of personal information through online databases, such as government records, medical records, and voters and #146; lists, pose a threat to personal privacy. The concern over individual privacy has led to the...

For most cases, people use an ecrypted mode when sending personal information to a server, via an electronic form. Whenever shopping is done online, the browser uses cryptographic methods to send to the server the credit card number and private information. Thanks to the surprising development...