Security Requirements Engineering in medical IoT: comparing literature and developers’ practices

In the Internet of Things paradigm, everyday objects communicate with each other to form a worldwide dynamic network which provides opportunities for innovative services and applications in almost every field. Nevertheless, such a dynamic network also brings serious security issues to users, society, and even to the internet. Things that lack of...

Unlocking lean innovation at large: Analyzing the success factors of internal lean ventures within large enterprises

Today’s market environment is characterized by increasing competition. This competition forces incumbents to innovate if they want to sustain their competitive advantage. Large enterprises start to adopt methodologies pioneered within the startup world, like the lean startup methodology, the innovate. The adoption of this methodology has proven...

Assessing the Role of Online Banking Characteristics in the Target Selection of Banking Malware

Understanding target selection is a step before making a suitable proactive measure to address the complex issue of banking malware in online banking landscape. Despite several previous studies, gaps in the research of target selection are still present like the lack of attention to the non-targeted entities, the presence of other potential...

The effect of environmental uncertainty on B2B-platform switching decisions: An empirical study on Hong Kong SMEs

Context: SMEs make up the major share of the manufacturing and trading industry in Hong Kong. Recently, the industry is faced with growing environmental uncertainty that may result in new challenges, consequently giving rise to a different set of needs concerning B2B relationships. These needs may present opportunities for alternative B2B...

The Openness between Platforms: What Changes in an IoT Context?

The main problem hampering innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) is the fragmentation and lack of interoperability between IoT platforms. A possible solution for IoT platform sponsors to overcome this problem is to open up towards other platforms. To better understand how the IoT platform market is evolving and to inform future decisions...

Establishing relationship between value proposition and concept validation

Fuzzy front-end innovation (FFEI) is the most challenging and unmanageable stage of new product development. This is due to the uncertain and dynamic nature of product, market and consumer knowledge related to innovation. Value proposition creation (VPC) process is a part of FFEI. The scope of the research of this thesis is from VPC kick-off...

Choice Overload in E-Tourism: The influence of choice complexity and maximizing tendency on post-choice satisfaction

The dynamic nature of the market with constant technological developments continuously changes expectations from users over time. This drives businesses to alter their product and service offerings to maintain a competitive advantage, stable growth and, high customer satisfaction. Since economic goals drive businesses, it is often assumed that...

The Root Cause of Data Breaches: Investigating security misconfigurations as the root cause of data breaches

In the past decade, the world has experienced numerous severe and impactful data breaches, without indications of this development slowing down. Even worse, research has shown data breaches are still waiting to happen. The occurrence of a data breach has consequences for several involved parties and for society in general. It is therefore only...

Dutch Identity Matching: The Devil’s in the Details

The revision of the eIDAS Regulation proposes the implementation of a European digital identity wallet for citizens to authenticate themselves across the EU. The process to decide if a person already has an account at the service where they seek to authenticate themselves is called identity matching. Regulated and public Dutch Relying Parties...

Switching from Open Source to Cloud Protection License: What is the impact on Community Health?

This thesis studies companies which developed open source software but adopted cloud protection licenses, a novel type of software licenses which protect their business from competitors but potentially affect their open source communities. It addresses the practical problem of executives of the companies who miss information about the effects of...

The new era of breaking news: How social media impacts the dissemination of information

In this research, I delved into the dynamic role of TikTok in shaping democratic practices, with a particular focus on its effects on informed decision-making and activism. The rapid increase in social media usage has dramatically reshaped our lives, bringing several benefits but also significant concerns, especially regarding information spread...

Organisational Maturity Assessment during the Paradigm Shift from Monoliths to Data Mesh: Design Science Research in Developing a Data Mesh Maturity Assessment Model

Incorporating big data into decision-making provides a substantial competitive advantage, leading organisations to increasingly adopt a data-driven strategy. However, the adoption by organisations often remains unsuccessful due to limitations associated with monolithic data architectures, such as data lakes and data warehouses. Data mesh is...