Digital Transformation and Challenges to Data Security and Privacy (Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1799842010 ISBN 13: 9781799842019

Publisher: Business Science Reference, 2021

Synopsis

Heavily dominated by the sector of information and communication technologies, economic organizations pursue digital transformation as a differentiating factor and source of competitive advantage. Understanding the challenges of digital transformation is critical to managers to ensure business sustainability. However, there are some problems, such as architecture, security, and reliability, among others, that bring with them the need for studies and investments in this area to avoid significant financial losses. Digital transformation encompasses and challenges many areas, such as business models, organizational structures, human privacy, management, and more, creating a need to investigate the challenges associated with it to create a roadmap for this new digital transformation era.

Digital Transformation and Challenges to Data Security and Privacy presents the main challenges of digital transformation and the threats it poses to information security and privacy, as well as models that can contribute to solving these challenges in economic organizations. While highlighting topics such as information systems, digital trends, and information governance, this book is ideally intended for managers, data analysts, cybersecurity professionals, IT specialists, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students working in fields that include digital transformation, information management, information security, information system reliability, business continuity, and data protection.

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About the Authors

Pedro Anunciação is Professor of Information Systems at Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal Coordinator of Research Center in Business Administration General-Secretary of Information Systems Governance European Club Portuguese Chapter.

George Leal Jamil is a professor of several post-graduation courses from Minas Gerais, Brazil. He has two post-doctoral titles (from Universidade do Porto, Portugal - market intelligence and from Univsersidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain - Entrepreneurship). PhD in Information Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Masters degree in Computer Science (UFMG) and undergraduate in Electric Engineering (UFMG). He got a pos-doctorate certificate at FLUP – Communication School at University of Porto, Portugal, in 2014. He wrote more than thirty books in the information technology and strategic management areas, with more than ten works in books as co-author and Editor. He works also as a business consultant and as an active ecosystem actor in business innovation and startups front in several countries. His main research interests are information systems management, strategy, knowledge management, software engineering, marketing and IT adoption in business contexts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1799842010
• ISBN 13: 9781799842019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 325
• Editor: Anunciação Pedro Fernandes, Pessoa Cláudio Roberto Magalhães, Jamil George Leal