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INFORMATION SECURITY


GENERAL INFORMATION SECURITY SITES

Netizens, Netfringers, and Outsiders
http://www.neteveryone.org

An outstanding site that outlines the issues related to information access and digital divide issues. Fun to explore.

Information Warfare
http://www.infosyssec.org/infosyssec/infowar1.htm

Hosted by Infosyssec.org, this site is an excellent portal for all subjects related to information security.

Infowar.com
http://www.infowar.com/

This site includes sections on Articles Submitted, Class I - Privacy, Class II - Espionage, Class III- Terrorism, Call for Papers, Conferences, Electronic Civil Defense, Hacker Musings, Law & Legal Issues, Military and C4I, Products & Services, Resources, Surveys and Studies, and WMD.

Guide To Internet Resources: Information Warfare
http://www.informatik.umu.se/~rwhit/IWGuide.html

Compiled by Randall Whitaker, this site is a compilation of key WWW sites addressing the subject of information warfare (IW) and the relevant issues which serve to contextualize it.

Securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/

Security Focus is a private company specializing in information security. This site provides an interesting glimpse of some of the security issues as stake in our increasingly information-based society.

Totse.com Portal
http://www.totse.com/index.html

Formerly the "Temple of the Screaming Electron" BBS, maintained by "Taipan Enigma" - an off-beat, counter-culture site dedicated to privacy. Features a special page dedicated to information privacy.


GAO DOCUMENTS

Information Security Risk Assessment: Practices of Leading Organizations
http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/ai00033.pdf

Information Security: Code Red, Code Red II, and SirCam Attacks Highlight Need for Proactive Measures
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d011073t.pdf

Information Security: Advances and Remaining Challenges to Adoption of Public Key Infrastructure Technology
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01277.pdf

Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comments on the Proposed Cyber Security Information Act of 2000
http://www.gao.gov/archive/2000/ai00229t.pdf

Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comments on the National Plan for Information Systems Protection
http://www.gao.gov/archive/2000/ai00072t.pdf


U.S. GOVERNMENT SITES

The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC)
http://www.nipc.gov/

Serves as a national critical infrastructure threat assessment, warning, vulnerability, and law enforcement investigation and response entity. The NIPC provides timely warnings of international threats, comprehensive analysis and law enforcement investigation and response.

U.S. National Security Agency, Information Assurance Directorate
http://www.nsa.gov/isso/

Provides the Solutions, Products and Services, and conducts Defensive Information Operations, to achieve Information Assurance for information infrastructures critical to U.S. National Security interests.

National INFOSEC Education & Training Program
http://www.nsa.gov/isso/programs/nietp/newspg1.htm

The National INFOSEC Education and Training Program plays a major role in ensuring that personnel in all federal departments and agencies with national security systems are trained to safeguard information resources.

U.S. Department of Defense Information Analysis Center (IAC)
http://iac.dtic.mil/iatac/

This agency serves as a central authoritative source for Information Assurance vulnerability data, information, methodologies, models, and analyses of emerging technologies relating to the survivability, authenticity, and continuity of operation of information systems critical to the nation's defense in support of the agencies' front line missions.

National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)
http://niap.nist.gov/

A U.S. Government initiative designed to meet the security testing, evaluation, and assessment needs of both information technology (IT) producers and consumers.

Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO)
http://www.ciao.gov/

Created in response to a Presidential Decision Directive (PDD-63) in May 1998 to coordinate the Federal Government's initiatives on critical infrastructure assurance.


BIBLIOGRAPHIES

The RMA Debate: Information Warfare
http://www.comw.org/rma/fulltext/infowar.html

A gateway to full-text online resources about the Revolution in Military Affairs, information war, and asymmetrical warfare.

Information Warfare
http://www.unbsj.ca/library/subject/infowar.htm

Sponsored by the University of New Brunswick, Saint John Ward Chipman Library, this site provides an extensive listing of online resources related to information security.

Intelligence and Information Revolution
http://jciss.llnl.gov/iair.html

Hosted by the Joint Center for International and Security Studies, this site is another online listing of resources related to information security.

Information Warfare Tutorial (Army War College)
http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/iw-army/refer.htm

Another good online resource listing that features annotations.

Information Warfare Bibliography (Naval War College)
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/library/3Publications/Eccles%20Library/LibNotes/libinfwf.htm

Compiled by Marguerite C. Rauch, this site features another extensive listing of books related information warfare and security.

Infowar Bibliography
http://www.infowar.com/resource/resource_051798a_j.html-ssi

This site was compiled by Randall Whitaker, and features resources related to information warfare.


ARTICLES AND BOOKS

Adams, James. The Next World War (1998).

Foner, Lenny. A Brief Introduction to Yenta."
http://foner.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/yenta-brief.html

Greenberg, Lawrence T., et al, Information Warfare and International Law (1998).

Joyner, Christopher C. & Catherine Lotrionte, "Information Warfare as International Coercion: Elements of a Legal Framework," 12 European Journal of International Law 825-865 (2001).

Lake, Anthony. 6 Nightmares: Real Threats in a Dangerous World and How America Can Meet Them. (2000).

"Cyberthreat: Protecting U.S. Information Networks," special issue of U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4, November 1998
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/1198/ijpe/toc.htm



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