Computer Security Handbook, Fifth Edition

INTRODUCTION TO PART VIII

PUBLIC POLICY AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

This edition of the Handbook ends with compelling issues in information security. Part VIII provides a basis for vigorous discussion about important and controversial topics such as:

• 69. Privacy in Cyberspace: U.S. and European Perspectives. With increasingly frequent losses of control over personally identifiable information, the public is ever more concerned about privacy
• 70. Anonymity and Identity in Cyberspace. How individuals are representing themselves in Internet-mediated communications; the social and legal consequences of completely anonymous interactions, and of untraceable but stable identifiers
• 71. Medical Records Protection. How the special requirements of high availability coupled with extreme sensitivity of medical information poses complex problems for security specialists in medical environments
• 72. Legal and Policy Issues of Censorship and Content Filtering. How corporations and governments around the world regulate access to information that violates social norms, or is perceived as a potential threat to state power
• 73. Expert Witnesses and the Daubert Challenge. How security specialists should prepare for their day in court
• 74. Professional Certification and Training in Information Assurance. Benefits and costs of education, professional certifications, examinations, and commercial training
• 75. U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Information Assurance. Initiatives in the United States ...