Israel’s compliance with International Organization of Securities Commissions’ objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation has been assessed. The regulatory regime is well developed and in most respects is comparable with that of major jurisdictions. For the most part, it is...

In recent years, the level of detail in confidential data made available to social scientists has increased dramatically. Much of this has been due to the growth in secure data access facilities, which allow access to the most detailed data under strictly controlled conditions. One element of...

Organizations store data regarding their operations, employees, consumers, and suppliers in their databases. Some of the data are considered confidential, and by law, the organization is required to provide appropriate security measures in order to preserve privacy. Yet a number of companies...

The security of organizational databases has received considerable attention in the literature in recent years. This can be attributed to a simultaneous increase in the amount of data being stored in databases, the analysis of such data, and the desire to protect confidential data. Data...

Countries across the globe are working towards e-government realisation. One of the issues arising with the efforts to this realisation is the assurance of secure transactions while withholding high privacy standards. Different systems require different levels of security according to the...

Data bases are one of the most important components in every large informatics system which stores and processes data and information. Because data bases contain all of the valuable information about a company, its clients, its financial activity, they represent one of the key elements in the...

The dramatic spreading of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) brings new information security risks and threats. These have to be taken seriously because they are weakening not just our personal security but the security of the organisations too. The security of organisations is mainly...

This paper concerns organization of the local cloud computing environment at the Wroclaw University of Economics, developed in the framework of the LOGICAL research project. In particular the architecture of the environment, the implementation of main components of the environment are described...