DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SECURITY INFORMATION SYSTEM
(A CASE STUDY OF THE NIGERIAN POLICE)
ABSTRACT
The principal objective of this project
is to help Security Information Systems (SIS) especially NIGERIAN POLICE
which is my case study in the area they encounter problems in securing
security data-processing and efficient information system. This will be
the solution given to handle this problem by transforming the existing
manual information system into an automated form and overcome the
existing problems of insecurity and delay in data processing. I decided
to use an automated database system to enhance information storage and
keep track of security information. Again, doing this will ensure that
there is an effective security information system computerization. To
achieve this, Visual Basic 6.0 is used for its implementation.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
National security is the requirement to
maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, security
operatives especially police, political power and the exercise of
diplomacy. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America
after World War II focusing on the police and military might. Now, it
encompasses a broad range of facets, all of which impinge on the police
and military for economic security of the nation, lives property and
values protected by national society. Accordingly, in order to possess
national security, a nation needs to possess economic security, energy
security, environmental security, etc. Security threats involve not only
conventional foes such as other national states but also non-state
actors such as violent non-state actors, narcotic cartels, multinational
corporations and non-governmental organizations; some authorities include natural disasters and events causing severe environmental change in this category.
The origin of the modern concept of
“national security” as a philosophy of maintaining a stable nation state
can be traced to the peace of Westphalia, wherein the concept of a
sovereign state, ruled by a sovereign, became the basis of a new
international order of nation states.
As an academic concept, national
security can be seen as a recent phenomenon which was first introduced
in the United States after World War II, and has to some degree replaced
other concepts that describe the struggle of states to overcome various
external and internal threats. The struggle of states to overcome
various external and internal threats. The earliest mention of the term
national security, however, was made in Yale University in 1790 wherein
was made to its relation with domestic industries.
The concept of the national security
became an official guiding principle of foreign policy in the United
States when the National security Act of 1947 was signed on July 26,
1947 by the U.S. President Harry S. Truman. Together with its 1949
amendment, this act create American national security d important facets
for American national security as the precursor to the department of
defense, subordinated the security operatives branches to the new
cabinet level position of the secretary of defense, established the
National Security council and the Central Intelligence Agency. The Act
did not define national security which was conceivably advantageous as
it’s ambiguity made it a powerful phrase to invoke whenever issues
threatened by other interests of the state, such as domestic concerns,
came up for discussion and decision making.
The realization that national security
encompasses more than just security was present though understated, from
the beginning itself.
The US National Security Act of 1947 was
set up “to advise the president on the integration of domestic security
and foreign policies related to national security”.
Gen Maxwell Taylor’s essay of 1947 titled “The Legitimate claims of National Security” has this to say; The national valuables in this broad
sense include current assets and national interests, as well as the
sources of strength upon which our future as a nation depends. Some
valuables are tangible and earthly; others are spiritual or
intellectual. They range widely from political assets such as the Bill
of Rights, National Security and political institutions and
international relations to many economic assets which radiate worldwide
from a highly productive domestic economy supported by rich natural
resources. It is the urgent need to protect valuables such as these
which legitimizes and makes essential the role of national security.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Security information system has always
played a vital role in the stability of a nation. Keeping security
information manually can hinder some defense program and delay passage
of security information to the appropriate body. Manual documentation of
security information can lead to exposure of the information thereby
creating threat to the nation at large. Hence, there is need for an
automated security information system to guaranty safety of information.
1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The general objective of the study is to
develop a database for security information storage and retrieval.
Specifically, the following objectives are also considered:
i. To build a database system for police security information.
ii. To develop a software for managing security information.
iii. To determine the effectiveness of Nigerian police in managing signal.
1.3 DEFINITION OF TERMS/VARIABLES
Policing: Policing is another way of depicting the police.
Anti-policing:
Anti-policing is the society’s social attitude opposed to war between
states and in particular countering arguments based on policism.
Databases: A
systematically arranged collection of computer data, structured so that
it can be automatically retrieved or manipulated. It is also called a
databank.
National Security: The
requirement to maintain the survival of the nation-state through the
use of economic, policing, and political power and the exercise of
diplomacy.
Information Security:
means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized
access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection,
recording, or destruction.
Classified Information is sensitive
information to which the access is restricted by law or regulation to
particular groups of persons.
Security Management is a broad field of
management related to asset management, physical security and human
resource safety functions.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 SECURITY INFORMATION SYSTEM
System is the degree of protection
against danger, damage, loss and crime. Security as a form of protection
is structures and processes that provide or improve security as a
condition. The Institution for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM)
in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as a “form of protection where ……
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