Information Assurance Surviving in the Information Environment

Information Assurance Surviving in the Information Environment / by Andrew Blyth, Gerald L. Kovacich.

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 val...

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Main Authors: Blyth, Andrew (Author), Kovacich, Gerald L. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Computer Communications and Networks,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Information storage and retrieval.
Application software.
Management information systems.
Computer science.
Computer communication systems.
Data encryption (Computer science).
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Section 1 An Introduction to Information Assurance
  • 1 What is Information Assurance?
  • 2 The World of Information
  • 3 The Theory of Risks
  • 4 The Information World of Crime
  • 5 IA Trust and Supply Chains
  • 6 Basic IA Concepts and Models
  • Section 2 IA in the World of Corporations
  • 7 The Corporate Security Officer
  • 8 Corporate Security Functions
  • 9 IA in the Interest of National Security
  • 10 The Corporate IA Officer
  • 11 IA Organisational Functions
  • Section 3 Technical Aspects of IA
  • 12 IA and Software
  • 13 Applying Cryptography to IA
  • 14 IA Technology Security
  • Section 4 The Future and Final Comments
  • 15 The Future, Conclusions and Comments
  • Appendix A References and Recommended Readings
  • Appendix B The Computer Misuse Act of 1990
  • Appendix C The Computer Misuse Act 1990 — Loopholes and Anomalies
  • Appendix D US Computer Security Act of 1987
  • Appendix E BS7799 Information Security Management
  • Appendix F MIS Training Institute “Swiss Army Knife”
  • Appendix G Authors’ Biographies.

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