The Advantages and Disadvantages of the It in the Investigated Company

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The advantages and disadvantages of the IT in the investigated company Security information systems General controls: 1. Software controls For the software controls, the stored data of SocGen could be changed by their employees without any authorization. This fact shows that the software control of SocGen was not strict. The advantage of this low limit authority is errors in the stored data could be corrected by employees easily and quickly. However the disadvantage appears more obvious than its advantage. That is employees could enter fake or incorrect data without any notification, which may cause a great harm to the whole company. For example, employee could make fake trades, like Kerviel, which lead to a great lose in SocGen. Hardware controls seems unrelated after reading our tectbook 2. Data security control There was no clear and strict authority of data in SocGen information system. Employees could access some data which were not expected being read by them. The advantage of the unclear limit of authority is employees could get useful information to help their works conveniently, which could enhance their working efficiency. Nevertheless, the administrating process of the company might be affected as some confidential information was being known by employees. Application control: 1. Input controls The input data was not checked carefully during editing. Also, the editing times were not limited. Therefore, the stored data could be altered repeatedly while the correctness of the data was not checked. The advantage is the entered data could be modified immediately and could be modified many times to produce a better quality of work. For example, errors could be corrected after found. The disadvantage is the reliability of data is lowered, as data could be changed any time, some employees might falsify the information to reach their personal

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