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Consider society as a business that takes steps to protect itself from the harm of illegal acts. Discuss the mechanisms and costs that are involved.
Personal checks that you use to buy merchandise have a standard format. Checks have very few different sizes, and almost no variation in format.
Look up the other eight and give at least two examples of acts that would be in violation of these guidelines.
Programs that monitor keyboard activity Programs that find keyboard monitoring programs E-mail encryption programs.
In December 2001, British Telecom (BT) filed a lawsuit against Prodigy in New York federal court, claiming it owns the hyperlinking process.
Suppose you fully intend to spend the evening working on an Excel assignment that’s due the next day. Then a friend calls.
What is identity theft? What does a key logger do? What is a denial-of-service attack?
What situation would qualify as an exception to the copyright law? What are ethics, and how do ethics apply to business?
The theft of consumer information—particularly financial information—is causing huge headaches for financial and data companies.
Wrongdoing at Computer Associates and at Enron, once giants in their respective industries, was brought to light by forgotten and/or deleted e-mails.
Many people say that efficiency and effectiveness metrics are interrelated and that you can’t really have one without the other or that no organization.
Think about the many devices, appliances, modes of transportation, and so on that you use every day.
What type of IT infrastructure does your school have? If it uses a client/server infrastructure how does your school’s client/server network increase student.
What are your benchmark values? How were you able to derive your benchmark values? Where did they come from?
Search the Web and find at least five other ASPs. What are the names of the companies? What application software do they provide over the Web.
Describe at least seven metrics that could be used to measure the success of the IT systems in your chosen example.
Do some research on the Web and develop a list of commonly used metrics in the area of security. Be sure to define each metric.
How are component-based development and a service-oriented architecture related?
What is the difference between a selling prototype and a proof-of-concept prototype?
Research the Web and find three RFP examples. Briefly explain in a one-page document what each RFP has in common and how each RFP is different.
What potential problems would arise if you didn’t develop a logical model and went straight to developing the technical design?
If you view systems development as a question and-answer session, another question you could ask is, “Why do organizations develop IT systems?”
Your company has just decided to implement a new financial system. Your company’s fi nancial needs are almost the same as those of all the other companies.
There are seven phases in the systems development life cycle. Which one do you think is the hardest? Which one do you think is the easiest?
You are talking with another student who is complaining about having to learn about the systems development life cycle.