PROBLEM AND SOLUTION ANALYSIS

Problem and Solution Analysis



Problem and Solution Analysis

Overview of the topic

With extensive use of information systems in day-to-day business operations, many organizations have been experiencing significant with information systems. One such organizational challenge is developing robust computer-based information systems that are secure and widely adopted by the user community, i.e. the alignment of security and usability objectives. The role of the Computer Information Security carries a lot of importance in most of the organizations. The Enterprise Strategy Group, through a survey of Information Technology (IT) professionals in large companies, noted that compliance with government and industry regulations is the major factor that motivated IT professionals' decisions to improve data security.

There are three specific stakeholders in an organization that interact with information systems in some capacity or another: owners, developers and users. System owners and developers tend to focus on the security of the computer-based information systems and the data stored in these systems. However, users prefer ease of use with minimal security controls. These divergent views, perceptions and preferences of the system owners, developers and users have given rise to several gaps between security objectives and usability objectives incorporated into such systems. Therefore, there is a tremendous need to understand the system objectives from the system owners, developers and users perspective and to determine the optimal balance between the security and usability objectives, as within a given organizational contexts. Therefore, the problems related to the topic would be analyzed and solutions would be given in this regard.

Restatement of the Problem

Systems security and usability along with systems development have been dominant topics of information systems research in recent years. The basic issue that needs to be addressed in this topic is that many computer-based information systems are not being used or are not useful for the organizations after spending large sums of money on their development. The installation of the Computer Information Security and a proper procedure followed in this regard is vital for all the organizations. The problem that would be discussed in this topic is the need for a proper Computer Information Security which is essential for all the organizations.

Analysis of the Problem

Information system security and usability concepts are essential ingredients in the entire developmental cycle of the systems. The IT organization known as National Institute of Standards Technology published important information related to Information Security. The even provided the concepts and definition of Information Security that has several tasks related to the sharing of useful information in various organizations (NIST, 2009). The researcher known as Ives, Hamilton et al. in 1980, defined the term Management Information System (MIS) or more commonly known Information System (IS) as a “computer based organizational information system which provides information support for management activities and functions”. Ives, Hamilton et al. (1980) further clarify that an information systems could be either transaction systems or management-oriented systems and any single sub-system or an application that is part of the overall information system could be called as Information Sub-System ...