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Due to the strategic importance of IT, there exists an undeniable need for a systematic analysis before deciding whether or not a particular IT process should be outsourced. A study that provides a systematic analysis for evaluating components of the company's IT for outsourcing may be useful to practitioners. In this research, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is proposed as a suitable technique for analyzing information systems outsourcing decision. An IT outsourcing case is used to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed approach. "Super Decisions" is used to implement the AHP  

Outsourcing has considerably increased in number, as evident by the literature. Many activities, once being carried out by the organization itself, are now accomplished by contractors. Nowadays, implementing successful outsourcing projects is an important and challenging deal for outsourcer organizations. Such organizations always aim to finish their projects based on a defined scope of time, budget and quality while accepted by the final customer. Managers are trying to use outsourcing strategy more extensively but are faced with various problems in practice. So it’s advantageous to perform a research to identify these difficulties to be able to employ this strategy more efficiently. Due to... 

While data outsourcing provides some benefits, it suffers from new privacy and security concerns, mainly about the confidentiality and integrity of the stored sensitive data, as well as enforcing access control policies. Current solutions to these aims are not comprehensive and consider only one aspect of security requirements. A secure DBMS architecture is introduced that simultaneously considers confidentiality, integrity and access control enforcement requirements. The transparency of security functions from data owner, service providers, and applications facilitates the operationality of the solution.Additionally, a new indexing technique for character encrypted data is proposed that... 

One of the security issues in data outsourcing scenario is the enforcement of data owner’s access control policies. This includes three challenges; 1) the average number of keys needed to access authorized resources, 2) efficient update of policies, and 3) confidentiality of data owner’s access control policies. Most of the existing proposed solutions address only one of these challenges, while they impose high overhead on both the data owner and users. Such an overhead prevents the model to be implemented in practical applications. In this thesis, we propose an approach to address all the aforementioned challenges with acceptable overhead. In this approach, which is based on selective... 

Recently, many organizations outsource their data on an external server to rescue the trouble of data maintenance. But, data owners do not trust in the external server to enforce defined access control policies. In recent years, many researches was dedicated to cryptographic access control on outsourced data, in order to solve this problem. We introduce a method based on Attribute-based Encryption to enforce access control on outsourced data. In this method we consider policy updating and administrative access control. As a result The owner is not only able to change access control policies on outsourced data but also to define administrative rights (grant/revoke) for some admin users. Our... 

In recent years, there has been a trend toward outsourcing data to the cloud provider. These companies must tackle the data security challenges. Generally these parties are assumed to be honest but curious. In past years, the research communities have been investigating different solution to ensure confidentiality.
In addition to data confidentiality access and pattern confidentiality is a high-priority issue in some cases so. potential adversary should be unable to drive information from the observed access pattern to the outsourced data. Despite the fact that there are more investigation in the field of data confidentiality, concern over data security are the rise in outsourcing data,... 

Success in a business will be met by the different factors, of which one of the most important is design and execution of a good business model upon the inauguration of each company. Indicating the commercialization of innovations and innovative commercial ideas, it shows the productivity of innovation. Outsourcing the Training management in organizations is an issue the world pioneer organizations feel its necessity. Training systems in organizations have limited resources, don't have the required knowledge and financial sufficiency for effective execution of all Training processes. Therefore, Training management outsourcing may be a good alternative for meeting perspective and facilitating... 

Recently many organizations outsource their data to an external server due to easier data maintenance. One of the security issues in data outsourcing scenario is the enforcement of data owner’s access control policies. This includes some challenges; namely, the number of keys needed to access authorized resources, efficient policy updating, write access control enforcement, user and data owner overhead, and preserving confidentiality of data and policies . Most of the existing proposed solutions address only some of these challenges, while they impose high overhead on both the data owner and users. Moreover, most of them address enfrocement of policies in form of access control matrix and...