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Information Assurance

Security in the Information Environment

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Blyth

    1. School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, UK

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  2. Gerald L. Kovacich

    1. Whidbey Island, USA

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  • 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 policies from the USA, Europe and the UK
  • Takes a unique view which bridges the gap between technical and business issues
  • New edition includes major updates plus three entirely new chapters

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. An Introduction to Information Assurance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. What is Information Assurance?

      Pages 3-15

    3. The World of Information

      Pages 16-27

    4. The Theory of Risks

      Pages 28-50

    5. The Information World of Crime

      Pages 51-68

    6. IA Trust and Supply Chains

      Pages 69-82

    7. Basic IA Concepts and Models

      Pages 83-102

    8. The Role of Policy in Information Assurance

      Pages 103-107

  3. IA in the World of Corporations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. The Corporate Security Officer

      Pages 111-121

    3. Corporate Security Functions

      Pages 122-135

    4. IA in the Interest of National Security

      Pages 136-152

    5. The Corporate IA Officer

      Pages 153-161

    6. IA Organisational Functions

      Pages 162-181

    7. Incident Management and Response

      Pages 182-187

  4. Technical Aspects of IA

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. IA and Software

      Pages 191-212

    3. Applying Cryptography to IA

      Pages 213-221

    4. IA Technology Security

      Pages 222-234
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About this book

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-year old), you will hear them talking about information security, a term that has survived since the birth of the computer. In the 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 f- lowing three classes of information warfare: Class 1: Personal information warfare Class 2: Corporate information warfare Class 3: Global information warfare Political sensitivities lead to “warfare” being replaced by the “operations”, a much more “politically correct” word. Unfortunately, “operations” also has an offensive connotation and is still the terminology of the military and gove- ments.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, UK

    Andrew Blyth

  • Whidbey Island, USA

    Gerald L. Kovacich

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