Chapter 2 Basic Concepts

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.

Charles H. Duell, 1899

This book is a culmination of research in the areas of systems engineering, cognitive science, information assurance, information architectures, and interoperability. It is the first attempt, we believe, to show a step-by-step systems engineering approach to information assurance (IA). An IA overview was presented in Chapter 1. After a discussion of other basic concepts here and in the next chapter, we start, in Chapters 4 and 5 to lay out a plan of action and milestones (POA&M) to build an IA program from the ground up following accepted systems engineering “best practices.”

The current wealth of globally distributed information is both a ...

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