the prominent features of national security in today's world are dimension change and its nature, taking place dramatically and with high speed. in this respect and in comparison to other areas, what is taken place in regard to information technology is more important. havingsecurity in virtual space is an important subject that is recently taken into account in strategic studies. the natu...

Africa’s marine environment and resources that lie beneath it are central to the continent’s sustainable development actualising ambitions set out by African Union in its Agenda 2063, where oceans described as frontier of development. The maritime domain also attractive foreign partners relying on enhance their economic geostrategic interests. Serving interests all parties, especially 38 coasta...

The growing importance of enterprise risk management and the resulting integration efforts put the need for separate IT risk management frameworks in question. In this research we analyse common and distinct elements of the COSO enterprise risk management and ISACA Risk IT frameworks. The analysis affirms the hypothesis that separate IT risk management frameworks are redundant.

In the new information society, risks are all over, every day, each minute. The present study presents MEHARImethodology set for risk analysis and risk management developed by CLUSIF (Club de la Securite de l'Information Francais. For many years, numerous security publications have been considering risk analysis to be the foundation of security actions and referring to it as such. This is still...

Linked together, organisations can exchange information and engage in transactions in ways unanticipated before, the emphasis being on information, which became core to most business activities and without which business will fail to operate [Owens S. Information security management :an introduction. London: British Standards Institution; 1998. pp. 1e2]. Consequently, to contribute to ensuring ...

Information systems security is a challenging research area in the context of Information Systems. In fact, it has strong practical implications for the management of IS and, at the same time, it gives very interesting insights into understanding the process of social phenomena when communication information technologies are deployed in organizations. Current standards and best practices for th...

Information security plays a key role in protection of organization’s assets. There exist a number of standards and guidelines providing huge lists of security controls that, if properly used, might be useful against cyber threats. However, these standards leave the process of controls selection to the organizations. Security manager has to carry out a decision on implementation of security con...

Objective: with the development of information technology, computer information system has become the lifeblood of the national institutions and the pillar of the social activities, so the information security is particularly important. Methods: in this paper, according to the level and structure of information security model, it is proposed based on the host, network, facilities, and methods s...