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Improving system availability with near-miss analysis

Madeleine Bihina Bella, +2 more
- 01 Oct 2012 - 
- Vol. 2012, Iss: 10, pp 18-20
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One major function of computer security is to ensure the availability of an IT system, and preventing major failures can prevent the unavailability of critical resources and any eventual information leakage and data corruption.
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This article is published in Network Security.The article was published on 2012-10-01. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Data Corruption & Unavailability.

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Software Failures: An Overview

TL;DR: This chapter defines the concept of a software failure and then reviews the problems of major software failures to determine how to improve the accuracy of their root-cause analysis in order to prevent the reoccurrence of major accidents.
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Behavior of Organizational Agents on Managing Information Technology

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify triggers which influence behavior of organizational agents on managing IT and conclude that the most important levers for behavior for the focus areas are social pressure and explicit confirmation of the agent's own intention.
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An investigation of the Therac-25 accidents

TL;DR: A detailed investigation of the factors involved in the software-related overdoses and attempts by users, manufacturers, and government agencies to deal with the accidents is presented.
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Risk-based approach to near miss

U. Ritwik