The main focus of the cyber-security community has been to make operating systems and communication networks more secure and harder for attackers to penetrate. This also applies to all the applications on the Internet. The most frequently used web application and user pages are today developed with the Web Content Management System (WCMS), as it allows user-friendly access, easy development and operation. WCMSs are present all over the world in many different environments. Any malware that can penetrate the WCMS can significantly affect the system itself and can cause a misconfiguration. The security and stability of these systems are important for reducing the risks and consequences of attacks or disfunctions with currently known similar tools. This paper presents a newly developed tool for identifying the vulnerabilities of the majority of Internet sites with WCMS applications and the remedies to be applied. Its key feature is the ability to perform automated, fast and dynamic vulnerability scans of the WCMS and the attached plug-ins on a large scale with in-built ethical respect.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32933415
Recent years have seen the emergence of physical products that are digitally networked with other products and with information systems to enable complex business scenarios in manufacturing, mobility, or healthcare. These “smart products”, which enable the co-creation of “smart service” that is based on monitoring, optimization, remote control, and autonomous adaptation of products, profoundly transform service systems into what we call “smart service systems”. The paper provides a new concept of a “smart service” and “smart service systems” based on the products as boundary objects that integrate service consumers’ and service providers’ resources and activities. The implications of the introduction of smart service systems have for foundational concepts of service science are provided and the smart service systems are characterized by technology-mediated, continuous, and routinized interactions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 25347558
The paper presents the originally designed and implemented flexibility management system for provision of a low-cost solution for residential consumers to participate in power-grid based network for balancing of the electro-energy consumption. The system continuously forecasts the need for flexibility in a power grid and informs consumers about the incoming flexibility-management periods. The consumer interest in flexibility is provided to an aggregator in exchange for a reward, which depends on the selected incentive scheme. The automation of the flexibility-management events of the network is enabled with devices via the Z-Wave and an open platform communication unified architecture. The system was evaluated in three pilots in Slovenia and Germany. The results have shown that the proposed approach for energy saving is appropriate by engaging the consumers in flexibility-management events. On average, the pilots' participants reduced their energy load by 10% during a peak event.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32487207
Paper provides an insight into millennials’ adoption of autonomous vehicles (AV), which are at the forefront of future transport. Millennials are an important focus group for smart city concepts since they are keen to adopt technology and new transport modes. Our research focuses on technology adoption, perception of the benefits, security, safety, mobility-related efficiencies and concerns as the key AV adoption factors. The impact of these factors is empirically tested with structural equation modelling using data from 382 millennials. We confirm the perceived benefits of AV are vital factors for AV adoption whereas the perceived safety of AV significantly reduces the influence of various concerns regarding AV.
COBISS.SI-ID: 25453286
A poor relationship between top management and IT personnel is often denoted as a business–IT gap. In an era of digital transformation, bridging this gap and establishing a strong relationship between business and IT are more important than ever before. There is thus a strong need to bridge this gap by finding the major connecting links. Despite significant efforts made to close this gap in the past, it remains still a major issue that is investiagted in the paper. The findings in the study show that key factors for ensuring a partnership relationship are relaying on the social exchange theory and the knowledge-based theory. The influence of social facilitators on collaboration outcomes is providing the major links to overcome the gap.
COBISS.SI-ID: 24729574