Author: Lenny Muraya

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY One of the main duties of managers in any organization to make decisions (Khodashahri and Sarabi, 2013, p.1). However, many organizations today have robust and complex value chain processes. Most of these organizations also have complex organizational structures with multiple organizational units, whose activities must be synchronized and coordinated to optimize productivity, minimize…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the recent years, the Internet has become readily accepted as the standard platform over which modern organizations carry out most of their operational processes. These operational processes could be business processes for profit-oriented organizations, public services by governmental organizational units, educational services by universities and colleges or collaboration, communication and entertainment services…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY One may ask, why review the evolution of Information Systems security from the “1960s” and not any other time? The answer to this question lies in the fact that the first commercially produced computer was made in 1951. Consequently, the “1960s” era was the period of time when the use of computers was…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In a simple security model, the standard approach in the implementation of security is to identify a user, then confirm the user is who (s)he says (s)he is (authentication), then identify the entitlements the authenticated user has in the application or system, and finally authorize the user to access the entitled resources in…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the recent past, the amount and nature of both structured and unstructured data that organizations have had to capture, store, manage and maintain has been growing at a very high rate. Initially, the main type of content that was captured, managed and maintained electronically was the structured data. Various global trends lately…