OLD TRICKS FOR NEW DOGS: SOME METHODS FOR IMPROVING INTERNET AGENT SECURITY
Steven M. Walczak · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2001
Electronic information retrieval is becoming a necessity for business.Agent technology promises to provide a facile means for intelligently searching the internet.However, any agent or other electronic information placed onto the internet poses a security risk, especially in information sensitive domains such as medicine and law.Encryption and firewalls are traditional methods for increasing internet information security, but are these techniques sufficient to adequately protect electronic information carried by internet agents?Need to know and partial information strategies are discussed as methods for improving information security for internet agents.