TY - BOOK AU - Jacobs, Stuart TI - Engineering Information Security: : The Application of Systems Engineering Concepts to Achieve Information Assurance T2 - IEEE press series on information and communication network security SN - 9780470565124 PY - 2011/// CY - New Jersey PB - John Wiley, KW - Computer Science KW - Information security KW - Engineering N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Index 663-700p N2 - Information security is the act of protecting information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. This book discusses why information security is needed and how security problems can have widespread impacts. It covers the complete security lifecycle of products and services, starting with requirements and policy development and progressing through development, deployment, and operations, and concluding with decommissioning. Professionals in the sciences, engineering, and communications fields will turn to this resource to understand the many legal, technical, competitive, criminal and consumer forces and influences that are rapidly changing our information dependent society ER -