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Assessing Kenya’s Technology Innovation Ecosystem Towards Digital Entrepreneurship Success 评估肯尼亚技术创新生态系统对数字创业成功的影响

2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187878

Lorna Mutegi, J. Van Belle, Joseph Sevilla

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Integration of Forth Industrial Revolution Technologies and Indigenous Knowledge in Developing a Smart and Integrated Pollution Monitoring System 第四次工业革命技术与本土知识在开发智能综合污染监测系统中的整合

2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187761

Pamela Ramba, Mpho Mbele, M. Masinde

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Emerging FinTech Models in Mobile Payments for Digital Finance in Rural Areas 农村地区数字金融移动支付中的新兴金融科技模式

2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187800

C. Memela, E. Chindenga

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Essential Skills Needed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): A Systematic Literature Review 第四次工业革命所需的基本技能:系统的文献综述

2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187815

Kayla Borrageiro, N. Mennega

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Towards a New Insider Threat Mitigation Framework 迈向新的内部威胁缓解框架

2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187863

Sarathiel Chaipa, Ernest Ketcha Ngassam, Shawren Singh

{"title":"Towards a New Insider Threat Mitigation Framework","authors":"Sarathiel Chaipa, Ernest Ketcha Ngassam, Shawren Singh","doi":"10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187863","url":null,"abstract":"Insider threat agents have become a major concern for any organization. This research establishes the limitations of the traditional MOC (Motivation, Opportunity, and Capability) theory relied upon in cybersecurity to mitigate insider threats. Such limitations are supported by the ever-increasing sophistication and complexity of the characterization of insider threat landscape. We thus relied on studies undertaken in fraud theory to demonstrate that an element of Rationalization can be augmented to the MOC theory without loss of generality, paving the way therefore for the conceptualization of a new Insider Threat Mitigation Framework of which Rationalization becomes a significant determinant. This leads to a new cybersecurity theory, the MOCR theory. Our proposed MOCR theory states that a privileged user becomes a threat to an organization only when the four attributes are realized simultaneously to a variety of degrees by an insider. As such, the appropriate mitigation measure from an organization perspective is to dynamically ensure that, an insider keep their risk profile (MOCR profile) very low, at any given time, throughout their lifecycle in the organization. A fifth component, Influence (I) which has the effect of catalysing the attainment of MOCR was identified and its impact in attaining MOCR was discussed.","PeriodicalId":108112,"journal":{"name":"2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125336419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Indigenous Knowledge Crop Health Recommendation Expert System for the Upcoming Generations 下一代本土知识作物健康推荐专家系统

2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187828

J. Nyetanyane

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MaaS for Developing Countries: Local Engineers’ Assessment of its Feasibility 面向发展中国家的MaaS:当地工程师对其可行性的评估

2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187825

E. Dzisi

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Analysing Selected South African e-Government Failures through the Theory of Unintended Consequences 用非预期后果理论分析南非电子政务失败案例

2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.23919/IST-Africa60249.2023.10187874

S. Marebane, Ernest Mnkandla

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