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Information Security and Privacy
Notes information systems are highly dynamic. And the information systems are in themselves a
driving force in changing the very work practices and other environmental elements they are
designed to support.
In the case of telecommunication technologies the stability of the functionality and user interface
has made users irrelevant in the design process. The user interface has been given, and one could
concentrate only on technological issues.
For information systems the situation is the opposite. As the links between the technology and
the users are so rich and dynamic, dealing with the interaction between technological and
human, social, and organizational issues has been of utmost importance.
Future information infrastructures will be just as dynamic as our information systems have
been so far. They will be very heterogeneous (i.e. the combined vertical and horizontal integration
of information systems).
So, can we find an approach to infrastructure development which account for the dynamics and
non-technical elements of information systems at the same time as the standards enabling the
required integration – an approach which works for more heterogeneous and dynamic
technologies that telephone services up to now? This is a too big question.
However, that is the question we want to inquire into. Our main focus is the tension between
standardization and flexibility, which we believe is an important element in the bigger question.
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Caution Although traditional approaches and telecommunications solutions approaches
complement each other, they also contain important contradictions and accordingly brand
new approaches are required.
Task Differentiate between traditional information systems and telecommunication
technology.
1.4 Role of Internet and Web Service
Internet is considered as one of the most significant things for people these days. All the systems
and spheres are incompletely or completely dependent on the Internet. Let us consider the
world’s banking system, for instance. People do not generally think of how all the financial
functions in the world are executed out. Actually, all the financial functions and transfers would
be unworkable without the influence of Internet. If Internet stops functioning, everything fails
and the whole system stops too. If Internet stopped working all over the world one day, it would
be a real disaster and many companies, organizations and enterprises would be recuperating
years long. Therefore, Internet and computers are very significant element of people’s life and
the part of the life movement of people.
Certainly, we can make a simpler instance here. What do you typically feel, when your private
computer is broken? You most likely feel the deficiency of information and are concerned
regarding all the materials and documents, accumulated in it. You think that they can be just
damaged and you do not know, what you will do, if they vanish. Now visualize the same
problem, but when it is concerned with the billions of dollars, concerning dissimilar people and
deposited with banks. Problems with Internet and computers can cause the problems with
money transfers, conclusions of contracts and many other significant processes all through the
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