The data systems, policies and procedures, corporate culture, and public face of an agency or institution make up its organizational interface. This case study describes how user interfaces for the Bureau of Labor Statistics website evolved over a five year period along with the larger organizational interface and how this co-evolution has influenced the institution itself. Interviews with BLS ...

The data systems, policies and procedures, corporate culture, and public face of an agency or institution make up its organizational interface. This case study describes how user interfaces for the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site evolved over a 5-year period along with the larger organizational interface and how this co-evolution has influenced the institution itself. Interviews with BLS st...

The volume and severity of information security breaches encountered continues to increase as organizations, including healthcare organizations, struggle to identify more effective security policies and procedures. Publicly available guidelines such as GASSP or ISO17799 that are designed to facilitate development of effective security policies and procedures have been criticized for, among othe...

Enterprise Information Technology (IT) has become critical in supporting business sustainability and growth. Emerging Web 2.0 technologies contribute significantly to the fulfillment of key organizational goals and objectives in the public sector. Web 2.0 assist organizations improve employee’s productivity, increase communications, information sharing, and improve business processes. The perva...

Received: 8 April 2008 Revised: 15 August 2008 2nd Revision: 18 January 2009 Accepted: 23 February 2009 Abstract Information security has become increasingly important to organizations. Despite the prevalence of technical security measures, individual employees remain the key link – and frequently the weakest link – in corporate defenses. When individuals choose to disregard security policies a...

This paper presents a framework designed to assist enterprises in implementing a forensic readiness capability for information privacy incidents. In particular, the framework provides guidance for specifying high-level policies, business processes and organizational functions, and for determining the device-level forensic procedures, standards and processes required to handle information privac...