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Overview of Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization

2005; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 3; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/msp.2005.76

1558-4046

Susan Landau, Martin R. Stytz, Carl E. Landwehr, F.B. Schneider,

Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies

The Internet, originally a development of the USA government, opened to commercial traffic in the early 1990s. Since then, its growth internationally has been phenomenal. In several nations, the Internet is now fundamental for communication, and it has become basic to society, including supporting several aspects of the USA national critical information infrastructure. Because the Internet was built as all information-sharing network, security did not figure prominently in its original architecture. This deployment is beneficial but it has also brought serious risks.