Access Control Types of Access
Network hardening, a concept which refers to the taking of proactive approach to personal as well as enterprise network security via the implementation of preventive measures against all sorts of cyber attacks before they take place (Mallery,2005).In this paper, we research current technologies for network protection, address remaining protective measures, including but not limited to: Access control , Encryption, PKI and certificates , OS hardening / Application hardening ,Transmission / Remote access protection protocols, Wireless security, Antivirus / Anti-spyware software and E-mail security.
Collaboration Software Evaluation and Analysis as Virtual
As virtual teams become pervasive in many enterprises globally, the need for stable, secure and scalable collaboration platforms becomes more and more important to organizations achieving complex strategic goals and objectives. Virtual teams can often coordinate and collaborate using personal productivity applications, yet on more complex tasks requiring orchestration of complex workflows and sharing dozens of documents at the same time, Microsoft Outlook and e-mail break down and don't deliver the level of functionality necessary. Given the rapid rise in virtual teams in conjunction with the lack of support in many personal productivity software applications for intensive collaboration an entirely new area of enterprise software has emerged. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems with social networking functionality (Social CRM), enterprise content management, knowledge management, groupware, portals and Web Services have all emerged as proven solutions to the continual challenge of communication and collaboration in virtual teams (Banker, Bardhan, 2006). Evaluating collaboration tools for time, place, richness, task and adoption by team task is the goal of this analysis. It is assumed throughout this analysis that the scenario the collaboration software is used in are virtual teams located at geographically diverse points globally, across time zones and cultures. It is further assumed that the level of collaboration that will occur is dependent on clarity, consistency and trust being attained over time (Siakas, Siakas, 2008)