An introduction to information security evaluation

An Introduction to Standards related to Information Security

The good thing about standards is that there are so many of them." This humorous comment is often made when some well meaning team member wants to solve a problem by referring to a standard. This may be true, but what is also true is that information systems are becoming more "complex" (in the vaguest sense of the word), that systems and the information processed are more distributed and that t...

An Introduction to RFID – Information Security and Privacy Concerns

This report is written as part of the course TDDC03 Information Security at Linköping Institute of Technology. It aims to give an introduction to RFID, point out the current and future uses of the technology and to evaluate and discuss the technology from a perspective of information security and privacy with focus on new arising concerns.

Introduction to Information Security and Privacy Minitrack

The high profile information security breach incidents in recent years have increased the attention of cyber-security related issues from regulators, practitioners, and academic researchers. Despite the continued technological progress in cyber-security, massive security breaches, unauthorized disclosure of information and the intentional misuse of private information remain pervasive worldwide...

A Brief Introduction to Information Security∗

The goal of this chapter is to give a brief introduction to the modern view of information security as a prerequisite to organizing an open, free, and democratic information society. It introduces design principles and, on a high level of abstraction, the technical terminology needed to discuss economic incentives around the provision of information security. It is targeted to people with a bac...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics