Engineering Bookshelf

Engineering Information Security: The Application of Systems Engineering Concepts to Achieve Information Assurance
by Stuart Jacobs

Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
ISBN: 0470565128

Information security is the act of protecting information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. This book discusses why information security is needed and how security problems can have widespread impacts.

It covers the complete security lifecycle of products and services, starting with requirements and policy development and progressing through development, deployment, and operations, and concluding with decommissioning. Professionals in the sciences, engineering, and communications fields will turn to this resource to understand the many legal, technical, competitive, criminal and consumer forces and influences that are rapidly changing our information dependent society.

Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm
by Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon

Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0133050696

Directed primarily toward undergraduate CIS/MIS college/university majors, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals.

Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision making in an exciting and interactive manner.

Information Design
by Robert Jacobson

Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN: 026210069X

Information design is the newest of the design disciplines. As a sign of our times, when the crafting of messages and meaning is so central to our lives, information design is not only important. it is essential. Contemporary information designers seek to edify more than to persuade, to exchange more than to foist upon. With ever more powerful technologies of communication, we have learned that the issuer of designed information is as likely as the intended recipient to be changed by it, for better or worse.

Systems Analysis and Design
by Kenneth E. Kendall, Julie E. Kendall

Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013608916X

HyperCase (original, hypertext-based software created by the authors) now accompanies this book on an interactive website. This innovative software allows users first-hand experience with a business and organizational structure. They will interview employees, observe office dynamics and practices, analyze prototypes, and review existing systems. All activities are conducted within a business simulation called “Maple Ridge Engineering” and are based on real-life consulting experiences.

The book includes expanded coverage of data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, and process specifications. Introduces examples of new software used by analysts and designers to manage projects, analyze and document systems, design new systems, and implement their plans.

Systems Analysis & Design Fundamentals: A Business Process Redesign Approach
by Ned Florencio Kock

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
ISBN: 1412905850

Systems Analysis & Design Fundamentals: A Business Process Redesign Approach uniquely integrates traditional and modern systems analysis with design methods and techniques. By using a business process redesign approach, author Ned Kock enables readers to understand, in a very applied and practical way, how information technologies can be used to significantly improve organizational quality and productivity.