Information technology -- Social aspects

In December 2009, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) approved enhanced proxy disclosure rules requiring companies to disclose the board’s leadership
structure and the board’s role in risk oversight. Apart from general business risks, boards
are increasingly interested in Information Technology (IT) risks as it affects all aspects of
the organization (PricewaterhouseCoopers [PwC], 2013). Since the effectiveness of IT
risk management depends on senior managers’ actions, this dissertation attempts to
answer the question of whether the maturity of IT risk management practices (the extent
to which management performs particular activities to identify, assess, monitor and
respond to IT-related risks) in organizations depends on the Chief Information Office
(CIO) reporting structure and the board’s leadership structure.

In recent years there has been dramatic growth in mobile devices and
technologies. According to reports from comScore [1], 47% users in the United States
(aged more than 13) are using a smartphones as their primary phone. Smartphone offers
more advanced computing ability and connectivity than contemporary phones. In today’s
world, a user wants to keep their smartphones private, because of the personal
information present in it. Among these users, some of them are minors. This thesis
addresses the functionality to track/control the mobile activities of minors by their parents
using mobile phones. As a parent they want to know, whom his/her child is talking to and
for what they are accessing browser for. Cellular network companies are providing
number blocking services from the carrier side, but those are monthly paid services. In this thesis, we propose application architecture for remotely control the child phone
and grant access to selected numbers for call and text. We use the emerging Android mobile platform and Google nexus phones to implement and test the application. This architecture will help developers to make more innovative applications in future which helps parent to access child phone information. We performed a study and reported the result using the proposal.