Information Security: An Overview
Alf L. Andreassen, William J. Leighton, David F. Schreiber · AT&T Technical Journal · 1988
Information security technology encompasses all measures used to protect information from unauthorized disclosure, modification, or destruction. In an age when information is widely recognized as a valuable commodity, information security has become particularly vital. This issue of the AT&T Technical Journal brings together papers on various aspects of digital electronic information security, representing work in many areas of the company. This paper presents a brief overview of the problems addressed by information security technology and how its focus has changed with the advance of computing science.