What is computer security? Security is risk management. - unknown "A computer is secure if you can depend on it and it's software to behave as you expect" - Practical UNIX and Internet Security Security is: availability, consistency, access control, data confidentiality, authentication. - http://www.sun.com/security/overview.html "The principal objective of computer security is to protect and assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of automated information systems and the data they contain." - http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/secpubs/cslaw.txt There are numerous definitions for "computer security", and most of them are correct. Essentially computer security means enforcement of usage policies, this must be done since people and software have flaws that can result in accidents, but also because someone may want to steal your information, use your resources inappropriately or simply deny you the use of your resources. S...
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