Data Protection and Security

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Introduction to Information Security

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Why Is Information Security Especially Hard?

To make things worse for information security, there are unique characteristics of cyberspace:

1. Automation: With computers, attacks that would not be possible or were too marginal to notice become a major threat.
2. Action at a distance: Attackers do not have to be near their targets.
3. Technique propagation: Attack tools can easily be propagated through Internet.