The current research aims to study the extent to which the Independent High Electoral Commission applies to information security risk management by the international standard (ISO / IEC27005) in terms of policies, administrative and technical procedures, and techniques used in managing information security risks, based on the opinions of experts in the sector who occupy positions (General Manager The directorate, department heads and their agents, project managers, heads of divisions, and those authorized to access systems and software). The importance of the research comes by giving a clear picture of the field of information security risk management in the organization in question because of its significant role in identifying risks and setting appropriate controls to manage or get rid of them, flexibility in setting controls at work and gaining the confidence of stakeholders and customers that Their data is protected. Compliance with controls gives the organization the confidence of customers that it is the best supplier and raises the level of ability to meet the requirements of tenders and then get new job opportunities, which encouraged addressing this topic by focusing on the basic standards of this specification and trying to study these standards and identify the most critical problems that This prevents its application in the commission understudy in particular. The Independent High Electoral Commission/National Office in Baghdad was chosen as a site to conduct the research, and the approach of the case study and applied research was followed and through field coexistence, observations, interviews, access to documents and information extracted from records and documents in order to determine the extent of the gap Between the Information Security Department of the commission in question and the system that the specification came with, analyzing the causes of the gaps and developing solutions, and considering The research was extended to the checklists prepared by the International Standardization Organization, and for the purpose of data analysis, the heptagonal scale was used in the checklists to measure the extent to which the implementation and actual documentation conform to the requirements of the specification, while determining the weights for the answers to the questions contained in the checklists by allocating a specific weight to each paragraph of the scale. The research used two statistical methods, the percentage and the weighted mean to express the extent of application and documentation of the specification paragraphs above and relied on the statement of the main reasons for surgery in the emergence of those gaps. The results that were reached showed several reasons that prevented the application of information security risk management, in the light of which treatments were developed that would reduce the gaps that appeared, the most important of which are: that the Commission did not adopt a clear and documented strategy to address risks, and that information security risk management Ineffective and completely secured from external and internal threats. There was also interest in documenting fixed Hardware and portable Hardware represented by computers used at the headquarters of the directorate, servers and small computers used as workstations in divisions and departments and their connection to senior management, as well as laptops and personal digital assistants, which showed a gap attributed to the total undocumented application of Hardware (automatic data processing), processing accessories, and electronic media), while the application was partially and undocumented for other electronic media, including disk drives, printers, paper, and documents.
Secure information transmission over the internet is becoming an important requirement in data communication. These days, authenticity, secrecy, and confidentiality are the most important concerns in securing data communication. For that reason, information hiding methods are used, such as Cryptography, Steganography and Watermarking methods, to secure data transmission, where cryptography method is used to encrypt the information in an unreadable form. At the same time, steganography covers the information within images, audio or video. Finally, watermarking is used to protect information from intruders. This paper proposed a new cryptography method by using thre
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The investigation of signature validation is crucial to the field of personal authenticity. The biometrics-based system has been developed to support some information security features.Aperson’s signature, an essential biometric trait of a human being, can be used to verify their identification. In this study, a mechanism for automatically verifying signatures has been suggested. The offline properties of handwritten signatures are highlighted in this study which aims to verify the authenticity of handwritten signatures whether they are real or forged using computer-based machine learning techniques. The main goal of developing such systems is to verify people through the validity of their signatures. In this research, images of a group o
... Show MoreThis study aims to enhance the RC5 algorithm to improve encryption and decryption speeds in devices with limited power and memory resources. These resource-constrained applications, which range in size from wearables and smart cards to microscopic sensors, frequently function in settings where traditional cryptographic techniques because of their high computational overhead and memory requirements are impracticable. The Enhanced RC5 (ERC5) algorithm integrates the PKCS#7 padding method to effectively adapt to various data sizes. Empirical investigation reveals significant improvements in encryption speed with ERC5, ranging from 50.90% to 64.18% for audio files and 46.97% to 56.84% for image files, depending on file size. A substanti
... Show MoreIn cyber security, the most crucial subject in information security is user authentication. Robust text-based password methods may offer a certain level of protection. Strong passwords are hard to remember, though, so people who use them frequently write them on paper or store them in file for computer .Numerous of computer systems, networks, and Internet-based environments have experimented with using graphical authentication techniques for user authentication in recent years. The two main characteristics of all graphical passwords are their security and usability. Regretfully, none of these methods could adequately address both of these factors concurrently. The ISO usability standards and associated characteristics for graphical
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The aim of the current research is to prepare an integrated learning program based on mathematics standards for the next generation of the NYS and to investigate its impact on the development of the teaching performance of middle school mathematics teachers and the future thinking skills of their students. To achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher prepared a list of mathematics standards for the next generation, which were derived from a list of standards. He also prepared a list of the teaching competencies required for middle school mathematics teachers in light of the list of standards, as well as clarified the foundations of the training program and its objectives and the mathematical
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