June 20, 2016 – Influence of Information System in E-Commerce

(Corporation, 2015)”As more companies embrace the cloud, IT executives must be ready to protect information in the cloud”, the IT model continue to change to providing of information on a “just-what’s-needed”, “just-in-time” basis from a centralized servers consolidated in the cloud. As this development is happening, IT data are being migrated to the new client-server. In many ways, it is a very different world, involving technologies linked to the cloud as well as the cloud itself. IT research groups refer to it as “Nexus of Forces”: cloud, mobile, social, and information. While Market Research organization such as IDC calls it the “3rd Platform.” Whatever tag is used, most analysts agree that the convergence of mobile computing, social networking, cloud services, and big data analytics has fundamentally altered the way we do business and live our lives. The step that organizations are embracing is adoption of the cloud as the platform of choice and adopting new technology realities for data storage. They are admitting that they no longer own or manage most of their applications because apps such as Sales force, Box, and Office 365 now do it in the cloud. IT organizations are also beginning to contract out management of their infrastructures because, to stay competitive, they need to take advantage of the benefits provided by cloud vendors such as Amazon and Rackspace.

Yes, the cloud is quickly transforming the way business gets done. Even though all this processes are new, business leaders are developing strategies to achieve information protection in the cloud. Following is a framework IT executives can use to keep their information secure.

Cloud security relies on three keys which are identity protection, data protection and Correlation Engine. in other to have a successful strategy for data security this keys will have to be put into a high consideration to produce a quick automated responses for a bridge in the cloud.

ID protection is the step of security. With security measure being taken, access are being restricted to authorize parties only and provide then with a flexible and transparent login steps. This process behind the authentication is easy and effective, and limit the risk posed by users. It enables analyst to identify the party responsible for the suspicious or risky action and access the data is being tempered with and device so that quick response can be taken to how to stop it from creating harms. But Identity protection alone is not enough. Data must be protected, as information is everywhere.Therefore strategy must be developed to protect by including a cloud-friendly information protection. Providing only the relevant information to right users only. ‘A correlation engine enables detailed tracking and correlation of activities by users’. This should not only associate identity-centric and data-centric but also context or intelligence.Identity and data intelligence should be developed with context increases in quick detection, that can generate actions to quickly rise notification.

Secured organization, mostly the ones that adopted the hybrid cloud model, do have upper hand in quick detection and injecting prevention measures in the network, which in a best-case scenario, protects information by monitoring access attempts and tracking how data is being used as strategy that identifies external threats and analyze activity on endpoints, with regular evaluating processes for improvement and continually enlightening employees to update their security IQs.

Reference:

Corporation, S. (2015) WHITE PAPER: PROTECTING CORPORATE INFORMATION IN THE CLOUD .Available at: https://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/white_papers/protecting-corporate-information-wp-21354920.pdf (Accessed: 20 June 2016).

Above is a webinar by laura Haywood who is the supplement editor at Retail Week Alcumus having a discussion on ways to use technology to tackle loss and develop prevention strategies in organization businesses with emphasis in information and security. Together with her is Kris Hamer who is a senior manager in Retail Operation at Asda and Walmart, Mitch Haynes who is the Group Head of security at Aurora fashion and Karen Millen and Nikki Samme who is the Marketing and Portfolio Director at Alcumus. The discussion start with a statistics from U.K retailers that record a loo of 3.4 Billion Pounds to retail crime as of 2014 which was on an average of 21.2% of retail sales. Also the British Rental consortium estimate that 2 million worth of retail theft happen every year with only about 12% of this incidence have been reported to the law. Information technology systems loss prevention is the key to address issues to protect retailers businesses. couple of questions were asked by Haywood to the guess speakers on this issues such as ‘their respective roles in their lace of working and how the role of technology in it’. “How technology have been use in the organization”, “how they deal with the movement of various information”, “challenges facing the business organization in terms of the business processes, data and security”, “How they adapt to the continues development on technologies”, “risk management” and “their vision for the future of the organization they work at in terms on Information Technology Systems”. All the speakers have some similar and different views on each of this problems they were asked about probably because they come from different organization and are managing different position.

Kris and Nikki has more concentration more on Information Systems and E-commerce mostly for the future. Looking at the increase in technology risk and changes in development of technology, while Mitch was more focus on the economy impact stock lost and fraud. They made emphasis of the flow of information in organizations and having an efficient systems in order reduce potential loss risk. They believe in organizations having a very good IS in understanding where the potential risk are, having a strong link between the staff and customers, capturing more data for analysis and mining in other to calculate risk, having a constrains on how organizations share their information and also involving the law which kris and Nikki dint really go for the involving of the law agencies idea. Points were made on organizations having the right technology platforms, focusing on things that will bring more value, engaging the staff in making them up to date with the technologies building different solutions and having a quick response team. Lastly all of them see the future of the organization drifting to more to online business, hence emphasis should be made more on developing strategies for the e-commerce platforms, which Nikki see that with organization meeting new risk which, they would have to change the business process and change/ increase in the use of software.