书目名称 | Information Assurance |
副标题 | Surviving in the Inf |
编辑 | Andrew Blyth,Gerald L. Kovacich |
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概述 | Helps IT managers and assets protection professionals to assure the protection and availability of vital digital information and related information systems assets.Highly international - covers polici |
丛书名称 | Computer Communications and Networks |
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描述 | When you first hear the term Information Assurance you tend to conjure up an image of a balanced set of reasonable measures that have been taken to protect the information after an assessment has been made of risks that are posed to it. In truth this is the Holy Grail that all organisations that value their information should strive to achieve, but which few even understand. Information Assurance is a term that has recently come into common use. When talking with old timers in IT (or at least those that are over 35 years old), you will hear them talking about information security, a term that has survived since the birth of the computer. In the more recent past, the term Information Warfare was coined to describe the measures that need to be taken to defend and attack information. This term, however, has military connotations - after all, warfare is normally their domain. Shortly after the term came into regular use, it was applied to a variety of situations encapsulated by Winn Schwartau as the three classes of Information Warfare: Class 1- Personal Information Warfare. Class 2 - Corporate Information Warfare. Class 3 - Global Information Warfare. Political sensitivities lead to " |
出版日期 | Book 20011st edition |
关键词 | Information Technology (IT); computer; computer crime; computer security; cryptography; electronic commer |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3706-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4471-3706-1Series ISSN 1617-7975 Series E-ISSN 2197-8433 |
issn_series | 1617-7975 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag London 2001 |