Introduction to Information Security

Most introductory texts provide a technology-based survey of methods and techniques that leaves the reader without a clear understanding of the interrelationships between methods and techniques.

By providing a strategy-based introduction, the reader is given a clear understanding of how to provide overlapping defenses for critical information.

This understanding provides a basis for engineering and risk-management decisions in the defense of information.

Information security is a rapidly growing field, with a projected need for thousands of professionals within the next decade in the government sector alone.

It is also a field that has changed in the last decade from a largely theory-based discipline to an experience-based discipline.

This shift in the field has left several of the classic texts with a strongly dated feel.