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Information Systems
BDT Test 2
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Business
Undergraduate 3
03/18/2012

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Information Security
Definition
Protection of Information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization
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Biggest issue surrounding information security
Definition
Not a technical issue but a people issue
Term
Information Security Policies
Definition
Identify the rules required to maintain information security
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Information Security Plan
Definition
Details how an organization will implement the Information Security policies
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5 Steps to create information security plan
Definition

1. Develop the information security policies

2. Communicate the information security policies

3. Identify critical information assets and risks

4. Test and reevaluate risks

5. Obtain Stakeholder support

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Authentication
Definition
Method for confirming users' identities
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Authorization
Definition
process of giving someone permission to do or have something
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Types of authentication
Definition

1. ID and Password

2. Smart card or Token

3. Fingerprint or voice

Term
Identity Theft
Definition
Forging of identity for purpose of fraud
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Phishing
Definition
Technique to gain personal information for purpose of identity theft
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Token
Definition
electronic device that change user passwords automatically
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Smart Card
Definition

-Device size of credit card

-Store information and small amounts of software to perform limited processing

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Biometrics
Definition

-Identification of a user based on physical characteristic such as fingerprint, face, voice

-Costly and intrusive

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Content Filtering
Definition
Software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information
Term
Spam
Definition
unsolicited e-mail
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Encryption
Definition
-Scrambles information into alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information 
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Public Key Encryption
Definition

Uses 2 keys

1. Public key that everyone can have

2. Private key for only the recipient

Term
Firewall
Definition
Hardware or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information and entering the network
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Antivirus Software
Definition
Most common type of detection and response technology
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Spoofing
Definition
-Forging of the return address on an e-mail so email appears to come from someone other than actual sender
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Sniffer
Definition
Program or device that can monitor data traveling over a network
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Hacker
Definition
Use knowledge to invade other people's computers
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Virus
Definition
Software written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage
Term
Supply Chain Management
Definition
Management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability
Term

4 Basic Components of Supply Chain Management

(SPOL)

Definition

1. Supply Chain Strategy - manages resources to meet customet demand

2. Supply Chain Partner - partners throughout the supply chain -- deliver finished products, raw materials, services

3. Supply Chain Operation - Schedule for production activities

4. Supply Chain Logistics - product delivery process

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Customer Relationship Management
Definition

-Manage all aspects of customer's relationship w/ organization

-Increase loyalty and retention to increase profitability

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Business Process
Definition
Standardized set of activities that accomplish a specific task
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Business Process Reengineering
Definition
Analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises
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Enterprise Resource Planning
Definition
Integrates all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system
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ERP
Definition
Collects data from across organization and generates an enterprisewide view
Term
Henry Luce
Definition

1923 Time Magazine

1929 Fortune

Business Week

Term
Efficiency IT Metric
Definition
Measures performance of IT system itself including throughput, speed, and availablility
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Effectiveness IT Metric
Definition
Measures the impact IT has on business processes and activities including customer satisfaction, conversion rates, sell-through increases
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Benchmarking
Definition
a process of continuously measuring system results, identifying steps and procedures to improve system performance
Term
Benchmarking
Definition
Actual Results/Optimal System Performance
Term
Chief Information Officer
Definition

Oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives

 

-Manager

-Leader

-Communicator

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Chief Technology Officer
Definition
Responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, and reliability of IT
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Chief Security Officer
Definition
Responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems
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Chief Privacy Officer
Definition
Repsonsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information
Term
Chief Knowledge Office
Definition
Responsible for collecting, maintaining, distributing the organization's knowledge
Term
Ethics
Definition
Principles and standards that guide behavior toward other people
Term
Privacy
Definition
right to be left alone when you want to be, control of personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent
Term
Information Security
Definition
protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization
Term
Conversion Rates
Definition

# of customers an organization "touches" for the first time and pursuades to purchase.

 

-Popular way to evaluate the effectiveness of banner, pop-up, and other ads on the internet

Term
Click-Through
Definition
# of people who visit a site, click an ad, taken to the site of an advertiser
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Throughput
Definition
 average rate of successful message delivery over a communication channel
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