Two officers with the Department of Lands in Bathurst will be awarded their doctorates in information technology at the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Faculty of Business graduation ceremony at Bathurst on Friday morning 8 May. The Department of Lands sponsored the research work of Dr Peter White and Dr Steven Woodhouse in an endeavour to find solutions to complex information technology challenges faced by the Department. “An interesting point is that both sets of research complement each other and provide a basis for organisations to improve the security of their digital information assets,” Dr White said. “My research thesis, Managing Enterprise Complexity: The Use of Identity Management Architecture to Control Enterprise Resources, is based on a case study of eight Australian public sector agencies that had designed identity management systems. The study allowed the essential elements of identity management systems to be identified with these elements enabling the development of a new Identity Management Architecture (IdMA).” Dr Steven Woodhouse’s thesis, titled Protecting our Critical Assets: A Management Approach to Information Security, is based on a series of studies, interviews and surveys that examined both peoples’ and organisations’ perceptions of risk. “This research identified the key issues in implementing information security and allowed the development of an Information Security Maturity Model and Information Security Quotient,” Dr Woodhouse said.