Abdelkebir Sahid

In the world of IT governance, the integration of cybersecurity with organizational agility emerges as critical to organizations facing modern digital adaptation. Cyber-agility advocates for adaptive governance frameworks and agile cybersecurity practices. Emerging technology warrants thorough research into cybersecurity, cloud technology, and internet technology management to discover effective strategies for seamless business integration. Navigating IT Governance for Resilient Organizations systematically explores essential IT governance concepts, methodologies, and strategies. The subject matter centers on IT governance, resilience, and agility, which are pivotal for the success and sustainability of modern organizations. By examining foundational principles, strategic frameworks, and practical implementations, this book provides computer engineers, IT professionals, policymakers, organizational leaders, researchers, academicians, and scientists with the knowledge necessary to ensure robust, adaptable, and secure IT systems.

Bibliometric analysis is crucial in understanding the evolution of research trends and knowledge in various fields. This study applies bibliometric analysis to explore the growth of the research paradigm on agility in the FinTech literature, using co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling of selected articles. Based on this bibliometric analysis, the evolution of research on agility in the FinTech domain has been prepared, focusing on the literature related to FinTech agility between 1984 and 2022. In this study, we also address the limitations of individual analyses from Scopus and Web of Science (WOS) and propose a comprehensive approach by merging the two research databases. The results reveal significant disparities between authors, publication influences, and keyword occurrences between the WOS and merged databases. Our research highlights the importance of combining a database approach in bibliometric studies, providing valuable insights for scholars, researchers, and stakeholders. Finally, the in-depth bibliometric analysis demonstrates the significance of “FinTech agility” in the rapidly evolving FinTech sector. Financial technology companies’ agility, or ability to adapt quickly, is the foundation of their success and innovation.

The term Agile ITSM is on everyone’s lips, as the digital market is increasingly evolving and demanding faster responsiveness from companies - and this also applies to IT service management. Meanwhile, agile working philosophy has spread from the software industry to ITSM. IT service management (ITSM) must be updated to continue to generate value in a world where agility is the order of the day and priority is given to the speed to market new services, products, or functionalities. This makes sense, because your company’s IT departments also need to work flexibly and innovatively to support business processes. But how exactly do you implement agile working in IT service management? This paper will attempt to answer this question, by proposing a new maturity framework to improve ITSM service management processes.

Digitalization necessarily leads organizations to rethink their cybersecurity principles in order to counter all the risks inherent in cybercrime. Cybersecurity governance brings together all the essential elements of cyber defense and effective risk management. Without such governance, dangerous gaps persist, and assets are inevitably compromised. Given the critical decisions that need to be made in an ever-changing cyber threat environment, cybersecurity standards are a critical way for companies to ensure that their security strategy and policies are consistently and measurably implemented. The aim of this paper is to propose a capability maturity framework to assess and improve cybersecurity governance in organizations. The finding will help organizations to evaluate their cybersecurity governance capabilities.

To support transformational business changes, IT must streamline the top-down process of new IT processes. In the ever-changing business world of today, no one knows what is around the corner, and to improve agility is the best way to organize to the test of the future. By defining IT maturity in your organization, you can map a route to successive levels of maturity and improved agility to reach a point where IT contributes to the execution, growth, and rapid transformation of the business. A successful IT service and asset management need to be efficient and agile to help transform from a traditional into a digital enterprise. In this chapter, the authors propose a global and practical strategic framework to improve ITSM service management processes with the additions of two drivers: agility control based on DevOps and security management based on SecOps.

Agile mode projects are increasingly popular among IT Department, including the most complex organizations. The deployment of agility on a larger scale fits over a long period because the motivations are part of a persistent setting. The deployment of large-scale agility is therefore based on a deep and lasting transformation of the organization. In order to support transformational business changes, IT must streamline the top-down process of new IT processes. The success of an IT service and asset management depends on innovation, agility, and efficiency to accompany the transformation of the organization from a traditional vision to a digital vision. The aim of this article is to propose a practical agile framework to improve IT service and asset management ITSM/ITAM processes through a case study in the organization. The finding will help organizations to assess their capabilities and to address the procedural, technical and human aspects of IT service and asset management.

To deliver security services (integrity, confidentiality, authentication, availability), it is necessary that the communicating nodes share cryptographic keys for encryption and authentication. However, it is well known that the encryption systems represent the first line of defense against all types of attacks. Furthermore, cryptographic techniques must be designed to detect the execution of the most dangerous attacks. In addition, these techniques must be small to fit the limited resources of the WSN. The aims of this chapter are to discuss the mechanisms used to secure communications; to show their main adaptations required for adoption in smart sensors, which are described in the literature, particularly in terms of key management and distribution; and finally, to detail the different solutions proposed in the literature to secure the communication of smart and constrained sensor networks in the internet of things based on cryptography and intrusion detection systems.

There is a dearth of academic research literature on the practices and commitments of information security governance in organizations. Despite the existence of referential and standards of the security governance, the research literature remains limited regarding the practices of organizations and, on the other hand, the lack of a strategy and practical model to follow in adopting an effective information security governance. This chapter aims to explore the engagement processes and the practices of organizations involved in a strategy of information security governance via a statistical and econometric analysis of data from a survey of 1000 participants (with a participation rate of 83.67%) from large and medium companies belonging to various industries. Based on the results of the survey regarding practices of information security management and governance, a practical maturity framework for the information security governance and management in organizations is presented.

Virtual laboratories are fully interactive simulations in which students conduct experiments, collect data and answer questions to assess their understanding. The primary objective of virtual cloud-based lab solutions is to provide customized IT environments for users. In today's information, networks and security training, time and location are one of the crucial elements for participants. Many universities and organizations have already taken some advancements by providing online training and labs that are accessible from anywhere in the world. In this paper, we conduct a small-scale trial of VCL solution to support higher education in networks and security courses of some hard concept such as the security or networks tests and experimentations. We describe and analyze in more detail the performance of this solution using load testing.