Policy Management

Firewalls are core elements in network security. However, managing firewall rules, especially for enterprise networks, has become complex and error-prone. Firewall filtering rules have to be carefully written and organized in order to correctly implement the security policy. In ...

With the simplicity of transmission of data over the web increasing, there has more prominent need for adequate security mechanisms. Trust management is essential to the security framework of any network. In most traditional networks both wired and wireless centralized entities play pivotal roles in trust management. The International Journal of Security, Privacy and Trust Management ( IJSPTM ) is an open access peer reviewed journal that provides a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.

Firewalls are core elements in network security. However, managing firewall rules, especially for enterprise networks, has become complex and error-prone. Firewall filtering rules have to be carefully written and organized in order to correctly implement the security policy. In addition, inserting or modifying a filtering rule requires thorough analysis of the relationship between this rule and other rules in order

The expanding global economy presents various challenges to production and environmental systems worldwide. Biosecurity provides a framework for managing the risks presented by different types of diseases and species spread by globalisation. One element of biosecurity is protection against invasive alien species (IAS). These are species spread by human actions outside their natural zones of dispersal. IAS present a threat to biological diversity at all levels and may have a negative impact on the goods and services provided by ecosystems. IAS may result in non-production and production costs. The first category includes physical impacts materialising as environmental, health and cultural costs, whereas the second category includes the subsequent economic impacts, such as production losses, domestic market effects and trade effects. In addition, IAS may impose control costs either on the society or a specific sector, depending on the type of species and the chosen policy. Management ...

External assessment of companies’ environmental aspects often focus on the existence of strategies, commitments, management systems and reporting of firms that concerns environmental aspects. Instead, in line with extra financial analysis, in order to play a role in decision-making, analysis of environmental aspects should incorporate the influence that stakeholders may have on future revenues of the assessed firm and how

Overseeing the quality of community-based, home-care services is a subject of concern in most jurisdictions confronted with population aging and the rise of chronic conditions. Although various quality management strategies have been used in different health care settings, continuous quality improvement (CQI) is still in the early stages of development among home-care service providers. What is more, some authors have raised questions as to whether CQI is suitable to the unique character of home-care and can be adequately applied to a diverse and varied range of agencies, each featuring a unique organizational culture, professional mix, and mode of operation.The article reports on how differing organizational cultures--as found in a set of public and private home-care providers--appear to affect agency receptivity to CQI during program implementation.The research methodology is characterized by a qualitative, multiple case study approach. Data were gathered from a purposive sample of four home-care agencies in Quebec, Canada, belonging to the public, private for-profit, and not-for-profit sectors

PurposeUniversity College London (UCL) ran a research project over 12 months in 2008‐2009, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, which examined what the impact of the UK Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 had been on records management services in local government. This paper aims to report on some of the findings of the study, with a focus on the practical records management issues.Design/methodology/approachThe research considered the three perspectives of records managers: institutional FOI; policy managers; and FOI requestors and user communities. Following an extensive literature review, qualitative research methods were used to gather data, specifically semi‐structured interviewing of 27 individuals from 19 different institutions in London and the South East of England and with 11 requestors.FindingsThe findings reported in this paper focus on records services in local government, in particular their organisational location and status, and aspects of the ma...

As a central and essential component of existence, food permeates our daily lives through our relationships with each other and our environments. Throughout the history of mankind, the acquisition, preparation, and eating of food has fostered patterns of work, cultural, and social organization. Over the course of several centuries, the conventional Western food system developed from a rather simplistic structure, of local small-scale production, to one of an increasingly diverse and fragmented character. As any trip to a supermarket will reveal, the dominant contemporary food system, functioning in the context of a globalised, mass-producing market, involves an incredibly complex set of participants and linkages to provide the almost unlimited variety of intensively processed, packaged, and fresh foods from every corner of the earth. For many years, the evolution, structure, and complexity of relationships in the conventional Western food systems has remained a subject of continuous...