{"id":4305,"date":"2016-08-14T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2025-06-12T05:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:54:35","slug":"threats-and-opportunities-in-geographic-information-systems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/threats-and-opportunities-in-geographic-information-systems-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Threats and Opportunities in Geographic Information Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Updated-GIS-IBIT-Report.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4307 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GISCoverHigh.png\" alt=\"GIS 2016\" width=\"583\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>David Lanter<\/h3>\n<h4>Temple University<\/h4>\n<p>August 2016<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Geospatial data produced by geographic information systems (GIS) play a central role in domestic economic and governmental activities. Publicly shared geographic information detailing locations and make-up of critical infrastructure have recently become a concern. This report outlines the unique opportunities,\u00a0history, and threats of\u00a0GIS, and how to effectively handle information security risks associated with public GIS data.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>The National Academy of Public Administration identified GIS data as essential to greater than 50% of the nation\u2019s domestic economic activities<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Updated-GIS-IBIT-Report.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DownloadNow.png\" alt=\"Download Now\" width=\"125\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u00a9 2016 The IBIT Report, Institute for Business and Information Technology, Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. All rights reserved. ISSN 1938-1271.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This report outlines the unique opportunities, history, and threats of GIS, and how to effectively handle information security risks associated with public GIS data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1709,"featured_media":4312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-report","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/files\/2016\/08\/Geospatial-cover-hi-res-image-only.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8vQSu-17r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4414,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}