The way to shop online more safety

These tips can help you determine that you're shopping at a secure and trustworthy website.

Buy from reputable stores and sellers. Here are some ways to check:

• Find out what other shoppers say. Sites like Epinions.com or BizRate have customer evaluations which can help you determine a company's legitimacy.
• Look for third-party seals of approval. Companies can put these seals on their sites if they abide by a set of rigorous standards such as how personal information can be used. Two seals to look for:
  
  
  
  Better Business Bureau Online—(BBBOnline)
  
  or
  
  TRUSTe
  If you see the seals, click them to make sure they link to the organization that created them. Some unscrupulous merchants will put these logos on their websites without permission.
  
  

  Look for signs that the website protects your data

• On the web page where you enter your credit card or other personal information, look for an "s" after http in the web address of that page (as shown below). (Encryption is a security measure that scrambles data as it traverses the Internet.)
• Also make sure there is a tiny closed padlock in the address bar, or on the lower right corner of the window.
  

Use a filter that warns you of suspicious websites

Find a filter that warns you of suspicious websites and blocks visits to reported phishing sites. For example, try the SmartScreen Filter included in Internet Explorer.

(source : www.microsoft.com )


The Other Example of Security seal is Trust-Guard

Introduction of MIS

MIS or as known as Management Information Systems is A Contemporary Perspective, an information system is "a set of procedures that collects (or retrieves), processes, stores, and disseminates information to support decision making and control." In most cases, information systems are formal, computerbased systems that play an integral role in organizations. Although information systems are computerbased, it is important to note that any old computer or software program is not necessarily an information system. "Electronic computers and related software programs are the technical foundation, the tools and materials, of modern information systems, " Laudon and Laudon wrote. "Understanding information systems, however, requires one to understand the problems they are designed to solve, the architectural and design solutions, and the organizational processes that lead to these solutions."

(Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane Price Laudon in their book)

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/management-information-system#ixzz1sPBBJupo    

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