Information Assurance

1. Front Matter

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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?

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

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   3. The World of Information

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

      Pages 17-29

   4. The Theory of Risks

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

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   5. The Information World of Crime

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

      Pages 51-71

   6. IA Trust and Supply Chains

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

      Pages 73-86

   7. Basic IA Concepts and Models

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      Pages 87-106

3. IA in the World of Corporations

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Corporate Security Officer

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

      Pages 109-115

   3. Corporate Security Functions

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

      Pages 117-128

   4. IA in the Interest of National Security

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

      Pages 129-140

   5. The Corporate IA Officer

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      Pages 141-149

   6. IA Organisational Functions

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      Pages 151-171

4. Technical Aspects of IA

   1. Front Matter

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   2. IA and Software

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

      Pages 175-195

   3. Applying Cryptography to IA

      • Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich

      Pages 197-205

   4. IA Technology Security

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      Pages 207-218

5. The Future and Final Comments

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   2. The Future, Conclusions and Comments

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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 "warfare" being replaced by "operations", a much more "politically correct" word. Unfortunately, "operations" also has an offensive connotation and is still the terminology of the military and governments.

• Information Technology (IT)
• computer
• computer crime
• computer security
• cryptography
• electronic commerce
• information assurance
• information security
• information system
• information systems
• information systems management
• information technology
• mana

• School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, UK

  Andrew Blyth

• Whidbey Island, USA

  Gerald L. Kovacich

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