TY - JOUR
KW - computer security
KW - information assurance
KW - information goods
KW - Information Security
KW - information services
AU - Matthew Sadiku
AU - Shumon Alam
AU - Sarhan Musa
AB - <p>Information assurance (IA) is the practice of protecting and defending information systems by ensuring their availability, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation. As a discipline, IA grew from the practice of information security. It plays a crucial role in a networked infrastructure of e-commerce, e-business, and e-Government. For this reason, IA is a serious worldwide concern of organizations, industry, governments, and academia. This paper provides a brief introduction on information assurance, the benefits it brings, and the challenges in the implementation of the concept.</p>
BT - Information & Security: An International Journal
N2 - <p>Information assurance (IA) is the practice of protecting and defending information systems by ensuring their availability, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation. As a discipline, IA grew from the practice of information security. It plays a crucial role in a networked infrastructure of e-commerce, e-business, and e-Government. For this reason, IA is a serious worldwide concern of organizations, industry, governments, and academia. This paper provides a brief introduction on information assurance, the benefits it brings, and the challenges in the implementation of the concept.</p>
PY - 2017
T2 - Information & Security: An International Journal
TI - Information Assurance Benefits and Challenges: An Introduction
VL - 36
ER -