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Compliance through automation: Expert Systems - part 2

Populating the Expert System Several methods exist for a knowledge engineer to obtain knowledge. One option is to go through textbooks and professional journals with the intent to extract definitions, axioms, and rules that apply to the issue...

Compliance through automation: Expert Systems - part 1

Technology is an ever changing tool driven by compliance requirements as well as entity-centric needs to satisfy market demands. For compliance requirements, IT deployments tend to be reactionary rather than a continuous, proactive process....

Compliance through automation: Decision Support Systems - part 3

Information asset value is continuously increasing in this information age due to integration into decision-making processes. Compliance decisions are of high visibility, often offer immediate results, tend to be goal focused, and are directive....

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Compliance through automation: Decision Support Systems - part 2

At a minimum, compliance decision support systems should include word processing, database, spreadsheet, and modeling capabilities. Of these capabilities, modeling is crucial to reducing response uncertainty regarding circumstances that require a...

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Compliance through automation: Decision Support Systems - part 1

Control systems can be categorized as being either decision systems or technical systems. Nonetheless, decision-making process assistance may be contained in an IT decision support system (DSS). Classically, a DSS represents an information system,...

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Service Level Management of Cloud Computing - part 3

SLR recording dictates identifying performance as well as capacity requirements and placing them in a SLM registry. These SLRs can encompass: ScalabilityMaintainabilityReliabilityAvailabilityPerformanceSecurityDuring the initial cloud computing...

Open Source hardware and software licensing - part 2

“Collectively, the term IT hardware describes all equipment necessary to enable IT services utilization. Yet, each hardware configuration item may have distinct operational characteristics and controls.” Therefore, as with any critical...

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Service Level Management of Cloud Computing - part 2

Usually the rapid growth of virtualized resources across multiple domains begets heightened IT service delivery expectations. To reconcile this perspective, management normally insists on increased quality, functionality and ease of use; decreased...

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Service Level Management of Cloud Computing - part 1

Service Level Management (SLM) defines, negotiates, controls, reports and monitors agreed-upon service levels within predefined standard service parameters. An entity’s ability to sustain appropriate IT service is heavily dependent on...

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Information security management: First-tier governance development - part 2

Commonly, entities are developed to satisfy a perceived need for a particular product or service based on available information. Some individuals and groups may consider it an "inconvenient truth" that organizational activities are...

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