Browsing by Author "Otanga, Daniel"

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Security Shortcomings of Electronic Web Based Voting Systems for Universities in Kenya
(KIBU, 2019-10) Simiyu, Prestone; Mbugua, Samuel; Otanga, Daniel
Electronic Voting can deliver free and fair elections as well as ensuring on time release of results. One factor fueling the adoption of e-voting is the access to internet and more so GSM network, by majority of the world population. However, with this adoption of electronic voting around the world, some concern are being raised regarding the process. Technically, it’s hard to achieve availability, integrity and confidentiality which are the pillars of a free and fair elections while using electronic voting. It is because of this issues that the purpose of this research was to examine security shortcomings for existing web based electronic voting frameworks. A mixed research design was used for the study covering both descriptive survey design and content analysis. The target population of the study was 13700 students, 60 student’s council leaders, 64 electoral Officials, 4 dean of student office officer, 6 ICT directorate staff and 29 top management from Catholic University and Kenya College of Accounting University both located in Kenya. Purposive sampling was used to select electoral commission chair, Dean of students while random sampling was used to select 6 management officers, 6 ICT directorate staff, 376 students, 14 electoral officials’ staff and 12 student leaders giving a sample of 420. Data collection Instruments were questioners, interview schedule and observation and the data collected was analyzed using descriptive analysis. It was established from the study that the university voting system of the sampled had issues with availability as they had failed at some point. Also, the systems experienced slow speed on the voting day. Another outcome was that the system had locked out a group of eligible voters. Therefore, the systems had issues with integrity. Finally, it was established that the voting system had not allowed non eligible people to vote as well as the system can link the voter and the voter’s ballot which is a confidentiality security concern. The output of the paper is a framework for solvingthe current security issues of the electronic voting web based system for Kenyan universities. The findings of the study are significant to electoral commissions of different institution, voters and policy makers
Trends in information system security in universities
(International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies, 2017) Otanga, Daniel; Mbuguah, Samuel Mungai
Information system security is designed for critical information protection. Security in Information systems is a complex of organizational technical and legal measures that are used to protect information from unauthorized modification and unauthorized access. Due to dynamic changes in Information Technology (IT), new threats and vulnerability emerge and thus the need to consider appropriate approaches that can address the emerging security issues. This paper examines the trends in information system security in universities and seeks to explore the current security approaches in universities with a view of establishing effective security approaches. Through scrutiny of literature on trends in information system security, the paper presents the findings of the security approaches trends identified. The paper also attempts to forecast the future trends in information system security in universities and its implications to the level of information security requirements in the universities. Information security must be checked continuously to maintain the required security level in universities.
The user’s skills, capacity on security for mobile computing in universities
(International Journal of Computer Technology & Applications, 2017) Otanga, Daniel; Wabwoba, Frankin; Samita, Leonard Wamocho
Universities are shifting from partially computerized to fully automated environments and technology is equally shifting from point to point to broadcasting options. These trends are resulting in mobile computing for most university users with systems accumulating enormous amount of public, private as well as confidential data on employee, students and the institution. However, mobile computing systems normally come with security issues and different vulnerabilities that make users hesitate adopting them despite the many benefits they bring. The purpose of this paper was to establish the user skills capacity on security in mobile computing environment in universities. This part of the study was undertaken using survey design and scrutiny of literature review. Stratified random sampling and purposeful sampling was used to select respondents from six public and two private universities. The study found out the users skills capacity in the universities to be fairly moderate. The findings will help the university management determine the skills required in handling information on mobile computing in universities. The findings will also enhance the existing security approaches to mobile computing in universities and mitigate on the future trends in security for information systems.