The Theoretical Foundations and Applications of Informatics – The Effect on Technical and Social Issues
What are the theoretical foundations and applications of informatics that affect technical and social issues, including policy choices, ethical issues, and legal obligations?
Let’s take a closer look at the similarities, and the differences, between internal organizational governance as it should pertain to information security and decision assurance and the growing complexity of relationships with people and organizations externally.
For this exercise, assume you are working with a software systems development company that specializes in video analysis and processing, using sophisticated algorithms that can transform a video stream into a narrative description of the actions captured in the video. Human analysts can then read a machine-generated description of the scene, the people in it, and what they seem to be doing; the system can even alert the analysts to conditions that seem suspicious or call for intervention. Such technology could be applied to security, intelligence, traffic monitoring and accident investigation, marketing, and many other fields. This is a “game-changing” technology, which your company sees as giving it a significant competitive advantage!
But to make the business plan succeed, company management is worried that it has to develop a strategy that deals with competition and with various non-governmental advocacy groups – privacy advocates, for example, see this as yet another “Big Brother” technology.
Your boss has asked you for a short, focused analysis and argument about this. He needs to take something to senior management and the board of directors that can help them understand the need to make changes in the internal information security governance processes that the company uses, as well as make changes in the way the company engages with outsiders, lobbyists and activists, competitors, customers, and even government regulators.
Situational awareness is the perception of your environmental surroundings. In information security, understanding your environment helps with identifying potential problems and vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities to systems and networks present significant risks to organizations. By comparing and contrasting this week’s supplemental resource readings, you can better understand and address what your boss needs to make better risk management decision making. Understanding the environment helps develop food for thought as to how organizations may need to rethink their approaches to information security, decision assurance, and how they present and maintain their public face (or organizational reputation) to even the most critical outsiders.
There is a slide requirement for this assignment; this presentation should be between 4-5 narrated slides. The presentation should include a Title Slide and References Slide.
