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MIS 290 - Widener
Final Exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| virtual private cloud | subset of a public cloud with highly restricted secure access |
| roles in a SIMS | social media providers, users, and communities |
| inherent processes | pre-designed procedures for using software products based on industry best practices |
| business process reengineering | the activity of altering existing and re-designing new business processes for new information systems |
| different types of workgroups | departmental, functional, and collaboration |
| platform as a service (paas) | provides hosted computers, operating system, and possibly a DBMS |
| mainframe era | period using large-scale high-speed centralized computers - no internet |
| tradeoffs for cybersecurity | cost and risk |
| 2 key characteristics of collaboration | people and feedback/iteration |
| hardening - (in security) | special versions of operating system that lock down or eliminate operating systems feature and functions not required by application |
| outsourcing | process of hiring another organization to perform services |
| true or false: ERP systems are ALWAYS hard to implement | false - because if you can use off the shelf - cost can be reduced |
| advantages of outsourcing | management advantages, cost reduction and risk reductions |
| gig economy | where businesses hire many people as independent contracts for a short period of time |
| crowdsourcing | practice of obtaining information from users via the internet |
| UGC - user generated content | content created by users |
| cloud computing era | period when applications, data, and processing power can be used remotely: accessed with a variety of devices including PCs, thin clients, mobile devices, and IoT devices |
| purpose of an ERP system | consolidates business operations into a single consistent computing platform |
| formula of social capital | number of relationships * relationship strength * entity resources |
| points to remember when using graphs | make sure the elements you want to compare are on the chart |
| enterprise application integration (EAI) | connects system "islands" via a new layer of software |
| efficiency | ratios of outputs to inputs |
| infrastructure as a service (iaas) | servers or data storage |
| hierarchy of a database | bytes to fields to records to tables to databases |
| groupthink | the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility |
| business intelligence | this is for reporting and data collected from the transactional system (SAP) |
| information security | trade-offs between security and freedom |
| vulnerability | opportunity for threats to gain access to assets |
| parts of an information system | hardware, software, data, procedures, people |
| usurpation | computer criminals invade computer systems and replace legit programs with their own to spy, steal, manipulate |
| business intelligence | what we learned that deals with reporting |
| data is collected by... | transactional systems like ERP |
| pretexting | device pretends to be someone else |
| smart card | plastic card with microchip |
| part of CRM - customer relationship management | marketing, customer acquisition, relationship management, loss/churn |
| worm | virus that self-propagates using the internet/networks |
| what can improve a business | information |
| lease | the right to use something |
| value of social capital | informing, influence, social credentials, personal reinforcement |
| content data | data and responses to data contributed by users and SM sponsors |
| phishing | obtaining date pretexting via email. also called email spoofing |
| freemium | offers users a basic service for free, and then charges a premium for upgrades or advanced features |
| trojan horse | viruses that masquerade as a useful program or file |
| pay per click | display ad for free/get paid when users clicks it |
| intel's three pillars of SM policies | disclose, protect, use common sense |
| natural disasters | floods, fires, hurricances |
| firewall | computing devices that prevent unauthorized network access |
| biometric authenication | use personal physical characteristics to authenticate (fingerprints, facial recognition, retinal scans) |
| the cloud | elastic leasing of polled computer resources via internet |
| constructive criticism | both positive and negative advice given to improve an outcome |
| conversion rate | frequency someone clicks on ad, makes a purchase, "likes" a site, or takes some other action desired by advertiser |
| web services | SOA programs compiled with web standards |
| honeypot | a network-attached system set up as a decoy to lure cyber attackers and to detect, deflect or study hacking attempts in order to gain unauthorized access to info systems |
| customer developed programs/systems | drives costs up when implementing an ERP system |
| information silo | exists when data is isolated in separated information systems |
| geofencing | a location service that allows application to know when a user has crossed a virtual fence (specific location) and then triggers an automatic action (contact tracking) |
| target | the asset that is desired by a threat |
| tunnel | connection between the client and the server - virtual, private pathway over a public or shared network |
| 3 parts of an SMIS | social media provider, users, communities |
| polled resources | same physical hardware |