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Rethinking Risk-Based Information Security, Herbert Mattord
Rethinking Risk-Based Information Security, Herbert Mattord
Herbert J. Mattord
The information security discipline has a common body of knowledge comprised of many facts, techniques, and ways for its practitioners to accomplish the objectives of securing the information assets of the companies by which they are employed. Sometimes these practitioners simply do things the way they have always been done. Perhaps some of the practices need to be reexamined. One that needs attention is the way that risk-based decision making is applied in places that it may not improve the outcomes of the problems being addressed.
It Project Managers' Perceptions And Use Of Virtual Team Technologies, Catherine Beise, Fred Niederman, Herbert Mattord
It Project Managers' Perceptions And Use Of Virtual Team Technologies, Catherine Beise, Fred Niederman, Herbert Mattord
Herbert J. Mattord
This paper presents the results of a case study pertaining to the use of information and communication media to support a range of project management tasks. A variety of electronic communication tools have evolved to support collaborative work and virtual teams. Few of these tools have focused specifically on the needs of project managers. In an effort to learn how practicing IT project managers employ these tools, data were collected at a North American Fortune 500 industrial company via interviews with IT project managers regarding their use and perceptions of electronic media within the context of their work on project …