Information Assurance and Security Ethics in Complex Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: 9781616922450: Security & Forensics Books

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ISBN13: 9781616922450

EISBN13: 9781616922467

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-245-0

Description:

The problems encountered in ensuring that modern computing systems are used appropriately cannot be solved with technology alone, nor can they be addressed independent of the underlying computational fabric. Instead, they require an informed, multidisciplinary approach, especially when considering issues of security, privacy, assurance, and crime.

Information Assurance and Security Ethics in Complex Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives offers insight into social and ethical challenges presented by modern technology. Aimed at students and practitioners in the rapidly growing field of information assurance and security, this book address issues of privacy, access, safety, liability and reliability in a manner that asks readers to think about how the social context is shaping technology and how technology is shaping social context and, in so doing, to rethink conceptual boundaries.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Behavioral Advertising Ethics
Data Breach Disclosure Policy
Ethics, Privacy and Genetic Information
Importance of Framing
Interdisciplinary Challenges for Peer-to-Peer Networks
International Ethical Attitudes and Behaviors
Policies, Principles, and Philosophy in Information Assurance
Predictive Insider Threat Monitoring
Privacy and Public Access in eGovernment
Responsibility for Software Security Flaws
Responsibility for the Harm and Risk of Software Security Flaws

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This 11-chapter edited collection focuses on the interaction between technology and ethics, mostly related to such topics as privacy, access, safety, liability, and reliability. Contemporary emerging issues discussed include the impact of international cultures, right versus wrong group norms, peer-to-peer networks, software security, insider-threat monitoring, behavioral advertising, pharmacogenetic testing, public policy, and cyber trust. This reviewer particularly liked the attempt in chapter 3 to dissect a technologically driven ethical issue through a role-playing case study. [...] Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty.

– H. Levkowitz, University of Massachusetts, USA. Choice (July 2011)

Melissa Dark is a Professor in Computer and Information Technology and Associate Director for Educational Programs at CERIAS (the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security) at Purdue University. Her research interests focus on how to address the human aspects of information security problems. She investigates the utilization of education and public policy to shape the information security behaviors of people.

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