Technical opinion: Information system security management in the new millennium

TLDR: This “Technical Opinion” focuses on understanding the nature of information security in the next millennium and suggests a set of principles that would help in managing information securityIn the future.

Abstract: R apid advances in electronic networks and computerbased information systems have given us enormous capabilities to process, store, and transmit digital data in most business sectors. This has transformed the way we conduct trade, deliver government services, and provide health care. Changes in communication and information technologies and particularly their confluence has raised a number of concerns connected with the protection of organizational information assets. Achieving consensus regarding safeguards for an information system, among different stakeholders in an organization, has become more difficult than solving many technical problems that might arise. This “Technical Opinion” focuses on understanding the nature of information security in the next millennium. Based on this understanding it suggests a set of principles that would help in managing information security in the future.