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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Varadharajan Sridhar is associate professor in the Information Technology and Systems group at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India. He received his PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Iowa, USA. He taught previously at Ohio University (Athens, Ohio), and American University in Washington, DC. He has also served as a visiting faculty at the University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, New Zealand. His primary research interests are in the area of telecommunications technology and management, information security management, collaborative technologies, and global virtual teams . He has published his research articles in the European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Heuristics, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering and Telecommunication Systems.

Bharat Bhasker is a professor in the Information Technology and Systems group at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. He had worked at Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA and MDL Information Systems and Sybase Inc., California, USA, in leading research and research management positions . Dr. Bhasker was a member of the High Performance Computer and Communications (HPCC) initiative of NASA. He was awarded NASA's Best Research Productivity Award in 1992 in recognition of his research contributions. He has also served as visiting professor in the School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park, University of California and the University of Texas. Dr. Bhasker also serves as Internet security advisor to the Controller of Certification Authority, Ministry of Information Technology, India.

APPENDIX A

Annual Budget (2001–2002) for the Computer Services of IIML

Activity

Budgeted Amount

Planned Expenditure:

1. Desktop computers for faculty and Computer Labs

$66,000(INR 3,300,000)

2. Uninterrupted Power Supply(UPS) units for the computers

$10,000 (INR 500,000)

3. Security Infrastructure and Implementation

$20,000 (INR 1,000,000)

4. Campus-wide Networking

$50,000 (INR 2,500,000)

5. Accessories and high-speed printers

$8,000 (INR 400,000)

6. Expenditure carried-over from last year

$16,000 (INR 800,000)

Non-Planned Recurring Expenditure:

1. Annual Maintenance Contract fees, software license fees, and Internet connectivity charges

$50,000 (INR 2,500,000)

Total Budget

$220,000 (INR 11,000,000)

APPENDIX B

Select Set of Statements from the Information Security Policy Document of IIML

Natural Language Constructs:

Electronic Mail Policies

  1. Both primary and secondary mail servers will be inside the firewall. All messages will be scanned for viruses and other maligned content by gateway-based anti-virus software.

  2. Users will be able retrieve email through Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) or Post Office Protocol (POP3) services, from inside the network. From outside the network, users will be allowed to access their mail only using "Web mail" service available through IIML Web page. Authentication is enforced for retrieving the messages.

  3. Email servers will be configured to refuse to relay any email addressed to non-IIML domains.

World Wide Web Policies

  1. The Institute Web server (http://www.iiml.ac.in) will be placed inside the firewall in the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ). All the other Web servers will be hosted in the internal network. All HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from outside to internal Web servers will be processed through the firewall and appropriate reverse proxy servers.

  2. All files downloaded over WWW will be scanned for viruses or other malign content using gateway-based anti-virus software and content analyser.

Formal Nonmathematical Constructs

Service

Policy

Policy Statement

Inside to Outside

Outside to Inside

Status

Authentication

Status

Authentication

HTTP

Y

N

N

-

All WWW servers
intended for
access will be
hosted inside
IIML firewall.
Restricted inbound
HTTP requests will be
allowed through
the firewall.

Web Mail

Y

Y

Y

Y

Web Mail
available through
the Institute Web
page will be
accessible even
from outside. It
will be only
through the Web
Mail interface that
users can access
their email boxes
from outside.