Handbook of Information and Communication Security

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stavroulakis, Peter (Editor), Stamp, Mark (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer security.; Data structures (Computer science).; Electrical engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Systems and Data Security.

At its core, information security deals with the secure and accurate transfer of information. While information security has long been important, it was, perhaps, brought more clearly into mainstream focus with the so-called “Y2K” issue. Te Y2K scare was the fear that c- puter networks and the syste...