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Bottom-Up Definition
- Concern for information policy, information privacy,
information ownership
- Assessing and understanding integrity, accuracy,
verifiability and other information qualities
- Study of encryption, data assurance, practices in
organizations
- Techniques for assessing information value, risk
assessment, scenarios
- Information security as the sum of activities relating to
being able to demonstrate continued value in information (aka,
resistance to attack or accident)
Top-Down Definition
- Information has become increasingly commodified. The
growth of computers and networks means that there is less
reliance on physical location or physical artifacts in
value-adding information processes
- We need to study information security specifically, as
part of the necessary infrastructure for all information
activities
- Failure to attend to information security is perilous!
Your view
- What's your interest in information security?
- What does information security mean to you?
- What would you like to get out of this course?
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