Raj Sharman

Raj Sharman is an associate professor in the Management Science and Systems Department at SUNY Buffalo, NY. He received his B. Tech and M. Tech degree from IIT Bombay (India) and his M.S degree in Industrial Engineering and PhD in Computer Science from Louisiana State University. His research streams include information assurance, extreme events, and improving performance on the Web. His papers have been published in a number of national and international journals. He is also the recipient of several grants from the university as well as external agencies. He serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Information Systems Security.

Publications

Handling Imbalanced Data With Weighted Logistic Regression and Propensity Score Matching methods: The Case of P2P Money Transfers
Handling Imbalanced Data With Weighted Logistic Regression and Propensity Score Matching methods: The Case of P2P Money Transfers
Lavlin Agrawal, Pavankumar Mulgund, Raj Sharman. © 2024. 37 pages.
The adoption of empirical methods for secondary data analysis has witnessed a significant surge in IS research. However, the secondary data is often incomplete, skewed, and...
Modernizing Enterprise IT Audit Governance and Management Practices
Modernizing Enterprise IT Audit Governance and Management Practices
Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2023. 318 pages.
Information technology auditing examines an organization's IT infrastructure, applications, data use, and management policies, procedures, and operational processes against...
Auditing Agile Release Management: Balancing Speed and Control
Auditing Agile Release Management: Balancing Speed and Control
Nikitha Agnew, Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2023. 43 pages.
The management of software releases is a significant element for most businesses. However, many organizations suffer from poor release management due to rapid demand for the...
Auditing an Agile Development Operations Ecosystem
Auditing an Agile Development Operations Ecosystem
Aishwarya Subramanian, Priyadarsini Kannan Krishnamachariar, Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2022. 23 pages.
In an enterprise software development, DevOps is a practice of integrating development and operations to deliver cost-efficient, improved quality solutions to the customer by...
Cloud Risk Resilience: Investigation of Audit Practices and Technology Advances - A Technical Report
Cloud Risk Resilience: Investigation of Audit Practices and Technology Advances - A Technical Report
Akhilesh Mahesh, Niranjali Suresh, Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2020. 31 pages.
Cloud computing has been instrumental in transforming the way we store, access and process data. With mobility being the primary objective of the current market, cloud computing...
Do Privacy Concerns Affect Information Seeking via Smartphones?
Do Privacy Concerns Affect Information Seeking via Smartphones?
Mohamed Abdelhamid, Srikanth Venkatesan, Joana Gaia, Raj Sharman. © 2019. 12 pages.
The innovation and evolution of technologies in smartphone industry has enabled users to efficiently achieve many tasks including utilizing search engines for instant information...
Cloud Risk Resilience: Investigation of Audit Practices and Technology Advances - A Technical Report
Cloud Risk Resilience: Investigation of Audit Practices and Technology Advances - A Technical Report
Akhilesh Mahesh, Niranjali Suresh, Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2019. 27 pages.
Cloud computing has been instrumental in transforming the way we store, access and process data. With mobility being the primary objective of the current market, cloud computing...
Information Technology Risk Management and Compliance in Modern Organizations
Information Technology Risk Management and Compliance in Modern Organizations
Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman, John Walp, Pavankumar Mulgund. © 2018. 360 pages.
This title is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it is one of the best-selling reference books within the Computer Science and IT subject area since 2017, providing the...
Do Privacy Concerns Affect Information Seeking via Smartphones?
Do Privacy Concerns Affect Information Seeking via Smartphones?
Mohamed Abdelhamid, Srikanth Venkatesan, Joana Gaia, Raj Sharman. © 2018. 14 pages.
The innovation and evolution of technologies in smartphone industry has enabled users to efficiently achieve many tasks including utilizing search engines for instant information...
Auditing an Agile Development Operations Ecosystem
Auditing an Agile Development Operations Ecosystem
Aishwarya Subramanian, Priyadarsini Kannan Krishnamachariar, Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2018. 21 pages.
In an enterprise software development, DevOps is a practice of integrating development and operations to deliver cost-efficient, improved quality solutions to the customer by...
Identity Management Systems: Models, Standards, and COTS Offerings
Identity Management Systems: Models, Standards, and COTS Offerings
Reema Bhatt, Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2017. 27 pages.
Identity management is the administration of an individual's access rights and privileges in the form of authentication and authorization within or across systems and...
Identity Management Systems: Models, Standards, and COTS Offerings
Identity Management Systems: Models, Standards, and COTS Offerings
Reema Bhatt, Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2015. 26 pages.
Identity management is the administration of an individual's access rights and privileges in the form of authentication and authorization within or across systems and...
Digital Identity and Access Management: Technologies and Frameworks
Digital Identity and Access Management: Technologies and Frameworks
Raj Sharman, Sanjukta Das Smith, Manish Gupta. © 2012. 498 pages.
Digital identity and access management (DIAM) systems are essential to security frameworks for their ability to rapidly and consistently confirm identities and to control...
Strategic and Practical Approaches for Information Security Governance: Technologies and Applied Solutions
Strategic and Practical Approaches for Information Security Governance: Technologies and Applied Solutions
Manish Gupta, John Walp, Raj Sharman. © 2012. 491 pages.
Organizations, worldwide, have adopted practical and applied approaches for mitigating risks and managing information security program. Considering complexities of a large-scale...
Threats, Countermeasures, and Advances in Applied Information Security
Threats, Countermeasures, and Advances in Applied Information Security
Manish Gupta, John Walp, Raj Sharman. © 2012. 319 pages.
Organizations are increasingly relying on electronic information to conduct business, which has caused the amount of personal information to grow exponentially. Threats...
Coming of Age or Just off the Boat?: A Review of Contemporary Identity Management Systems
Coming of Age or Just off the Boat?: A Review of Contemporary Identity Management Systems
Raj Sharman, Ryan Kendrick, Manish Gupta. © 2012. 17 pages.
Identity management (IdM) systems are information systems that help to manage an individual’s credentials. This occurs through the establishment, description, maintenance, and...
Impact of Web Portal Announcements on Market Valuations: An Event Study
Impact of Web Portal Announcements on Market Valuations: An Event Study
Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2012. 17 pages.
Organizations providing enhanced electronic services to their customers have exponentially increased in past years. The benefits of web-portals to companies and to customers are...
Impact of Web Portal Announcements on Market Valuations: An Event Study
Impact of Web Portal Announcements on Market Valuations: An Event Study
Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2010. 17 pages.
Organizations providing enhanced electronic services to their customers have exponentially increased in past years. The benefits of web-portals to companies and to customers are...
Handbook of Research on Social and Organizational Liabilities in Information Security
Handbook of Research on Social and Organizational Liabilities in Information Security
Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2009. 596 pages.
As the diffusion and use of technology applications have accelerated in organizational and societal domains, behavioral and social dynamics have inevitably created the potential...
Social and Human Elements of Information Security: Emerging Trends and Countermeasures
Social and Human Elements of Information Security: Emerging Trends and Countermeasures
Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2009. 412 pages.
More often than not, it is becoming increasingly evident that the weakest links in the information-security chain are the people. Due an increase in information security threats...
Emerging Frameworks in User-Focused Identity Management
Emerging Frameworks in User-Focused Identity Management
Manish Gupta, Raj Sharman. © 2009. 16 pages.
A paradigm shift is occurring in identity management philosophy. User-focused identity management is one the emerging and most promising paradigms. One of the fundamental...
Malware and Antivirus Deployment for Enterprise Security
Malware and Antivirus Deployment for Enterprise Security
Raj Sharman, K. Pramod Krishna, H. Raghov Rao, Shambhu Upadhyaya. © 2008. 17 pages.
Threats to information security are pervasive, originating from both outside and within an organization. The history of computer security is dotted with the tales of newer...
Malware and Antivirus Deployment for Enterprise Security
Malware and Antivirus Deployment for Enterprise Security
Raj Sharman, K. Pramod Krishna, H. Raghov. Rao, Shambhu Upadhyaya. © 2006. 20 pages.
Threats to information security are pervasive, originating from both outside and within an organization. The history of computer security is dotted with the tales of newer...