Current Security Management & Ethical Issues of Information Technology

Rasool Azari is currently Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the School of Business at the University of Redlands, USA, and the previous associate chair of the Department of Management and Business. He holds a Doctor of Science in Engineering Management and an MBA in International Business from George Washington University, a master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and a BS in Electrical Engineering from California State University Sacramento. He also was a graduate student of Political Economy and International Affairs at the Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. His work experience includes years as Project and Design Engineer in interdisciplinary multi-national corporations in the United States and Europe. Since 1995 he has been a Consultant to the United States Department of Commerce/National Institute of Standards and Technology. He has published more than 15 papers in journals and in national and international conference proceedings, and served as track-chair, chair, and discussant for the Western Economic Association (WEA), Western Decision Sciences (WDS), Information Resources Management Association International (IRMA), and the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS). He has served as a member of the program committee for IRMA and was a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Management Education and the Mountain Plains Management Conference. He is a member of the Academy of Management, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS), Information Resources Management Association International (IRMA), Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI), Western Economics Association (WEA), Association of Integrative Studies (AIS), and World Future Society. His research interests include: the impact of technology on society; technological change and globalization and their impact on organizations, economies, and society in general; science and technology policies; and management of technology and innovation.

Network Security Software; A Forensic Computing Perspective on the Need for Improved User Education for Information Systems Security Management; Integrating Cooperative Engagement Capability into Network-Centric Information System Security; A Methodology for Developing Trusted Information Systems: The Security Reuirements Analysis Phase; Defending Infrastructures Against Information Warfare; Biometrics: Past, Present and Future; The Social Contract Revised: Obligation and Responsibility in the Information Society; What is the Social Responsibility in the Information Age? Maximising Profits?; User Types and Filter Effectiveness: A University Case Study; Social Responsibility and the Transition Toward a Knowledgeable-Based Society in Latin America; The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Technological Change: The Case of High-Tech States in the U.S.; Information Systems Ethics in the USA and in the Arab World; Lemon Problems in the Internet Transactions and Relative Strategies; Reputation, Reputation System and Reputation Distribution - An Explorative Study in Online Consumer-to-Consumer Auctions; The Four Cases of Mill's Privacy Perspective