Your strategic initiatives are constantly under fire due to the evolving nature of markets, technology, laws, and government. To ensure your strategy succeeds, it must remain flexible while confronting these shifting challenges. Agile Strategy Management: Techniques for Continuous Alignment and Improvement explains how to achieve this...

Organizations waste millions of dollars every year on failed projects. Failure is practically guaranteed by poor or incomplete requirements that do not properly define projects in their initial stages.  Business analysis is the critical process ensuring projects start on the path toward success. To accurately determine project...

I have worked in systems engineering, software development, software configuration management, software testing, and software quality assurance organizations for more than 30 years. My experience in these selected fields has been somewhat different from that of most people. I always wanted to experience the software disciplines required in...

Featuring the contributions of prominent researchers from academia and industry,...

Recent advances in digital communications and storage technologies have brought major changes for consumers. High-capacity hard disks and DVDs can store large amounts of audiovisual data. In addition, faster Internet connection speeds and the emerging high bitrate DSL connections provide sufficient bandwidth for entertainment...

Addressing the diminished understanding of the value of security on the executive side and a lack of good business processes on the security side, Security Strategy: From Requirements to Reality explains how to select, develop, and deploy the security strategy best suited to your organization. It clarifies the purpose and...

As the demand for data and information management continues to grow, so does the need to maintain and improve the security of databases, applications, and information systems. In order to effectively protect this data against evolving threats, an up-to-date understanding of the mechanisms for securing semantic Web technologies is...

Information security has become a critical component in the stability and progress of the modern world. With high expectations from the public and stringent regulations from legislative and industry bodies, never have the pressures on corporations, governments and other organizations been so great to protect their own data as well as...

I was first exposed to what would become the Internet way back in 1969, while I was still an undergraduate at Brandeis University working on ARPANet, the forerunner to the present Internet, which operated at the then blazing speed of 2,400 bps, ultimately increased to 50 Kbps (see http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/). I...

Audit and Trace Log Management: Consolidation and Analysis is both a timely and much needed compilation of useful information around a topic that is becoming more and more critical to not only IT professionals and security practitioners, but to many other departments, such as legal, risk, and compliance, as well as auditors and...

A recent Cisco traffic forecast indicates that annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte by 2013. With their ability to solve problems in massive information distribution and processing, while keeping scaling costs low, overlay systems represent a rapidly growing area of R&D with important implications for the...