Essays on Software Product

Question 1

Internal workforce: When Organizations want to adopt new software, they must consider users preparedness in accepting and using the product. As such, the management is required to handle the transition stage in a good manner so that the new software product is acceptable to users and that it accommodates uninterrupted delivery of education and other essential services in the University (Ehie and Madsen, 2005, p.547). Change management, when considering any software deployment process, includes assuring employees that they will not lose their jobs and that change process will minimize initial disruptions caused by new hardware, services, and software. The ...

Abstract

Risk management is undertaken differently in varied sectors. In a survey of 415 projects in Brazil, the revelation came out that hiring a risk manager or planning for risk enhances project success rate. However, risk means diverse things for different sectors. In IT, some risks are desirable, because they disrupt the status, making some people redundant and increasing the opportunities for the skilled. Hence, the path taken to manage risk in the IT field is different from how risk is managed in other areas. The construction industry is intensive in the use of resources, and risk management should be ...

Advance Information System Security: SpiraTeam ALM

Cybersecurity concerns have recently become prevalent among varied organizations, presenting credible and real threats to business organizations when they occur. Cyber security attacks that are complex, of diverse nature and of unprecedented scale are possible to result in huge economic losses to the business organization. Specifically, business organizations must guard against determined efforts by cyber security attackers to gain access to commercially sensitive data that include key negotiating positions, gaining access to unauthorized government information, exploitation of information systems security weaknesses that target its business partners, subsidiaries and supply chain both home and abroad, and stealing of intellectual property ...

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Introduction

The nature of supply chain industry demands that organizations exchange amongst themselves private and sensitive data that is necessary for the movement of the underlying goods and services. A secured environment for an exchange of such data is a major concern for the cybersecurity industry managing the supply chain networks and transactions. The risk of cybersecurity in the supply chain industry is growing as attackers and hackers become more knowledgeable and have access to latest technologies using advanced a form of hardware and software tools. The malware ...

Software testing is defined as the process of executing software to determine its functionality. The goal is to demonstrate to the developers as well as the users that the software meets the technical and business requirements (Homè̀s, 2012). Standards on the other hands are documents outlining guidelines, specifications, characteristics, or requirements to ensure that products are consistent and meet their purpose. There are national and international standards that guide the development and testing processes for software. In Australia, the AS/NZS ISO/IEC 25062:2006 is a standard that provides User Interface (UI) designers or software usability professionals procedures for testing ...

Introduction

Zero days presents a great amount of security risk to numerous organizations across the globe. The evolution and fast embrace of information technology by organizations and business in their daily operations have resulted in more advanced attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities. Zero-day vulnerability is a flow or security loopholes that exist in software or systems that are either unknown or have no security patches (Alazab et al., 2011). In most cases, the zero-day attack takes advantages of the exploits that exist in software that was previously not known. The exploit usually takes place the moment the vulnerability in the software ...

Introduction

Software development is also known as software design and involves the development of a software product. Software development can also refer to computer programming which involves writing and maintaining source codes of a given computer program. The process of software development is very wide and includes researching on a particular kind of software, making new developments or modifying an already existing software, prototyping, requirements engineering, maintenance and carrying any other activity that can result into the formation of a software product. Software development is usually done for a variety of purposes. In each of the purposes that may trigger the development of software, customer ...