Contemporary Issues in Cybersecurity

Abstract

The effectiveness of modern computer applications is normally regarded as a function of five basic attributes of secure computer and information systems: availability, accuracy, authenticity, confidentiality, and integrity.  The concepts generally apply to government, business, education, and the ordinary lives of private individuals.  The considerations normally involve extended Internet applications – hence the name Cybersecurity.  Achieving and maintaining a secure cyberspace is a complicated process, and some of the concerns involve personal identity, privacy, intellectual property, the critical infrastructure, and the sustainability of organizations.  The threats to a secure operating infrastructure are serious and profound: cyber terrorism, cyber war, cyber espionage, and cyber crime, to which the technical community has responded with safeguards and procedures, usually supplied by the private sector.  This paper provides a comprehensive view of security in the cyber domain with the ultimate objective of developing a science of cybersecurity.