Information Security, a Folk Art in Need of an Upgrade

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Donn Parker

Donn Parker - SRI Consulting

Nov 12, 1999

Abstract

Information security is an inarticulate, incoherent, incomplete, incorrect folk art attempting to preserve confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) of information from destruction, disclosure, use, and modification (DDUM). This CIA/DDUM framework is the equivalent of alchemy in the middle ages when the elements consisted of fire, water, earth, and air. We must have security based on a coherent and complete framework model for stopping irrational cybercriminals. We must replace security risk reduction, an unmeasurable negative goal, with achieving standards of due care consistent with the new view of security as an enabling function.

About the Speaker

Donn B. Parker, an emeritus senior consultant at SRI Consulting, has spent 30 of his 47 years in the computer field doing research on computer crime, and consulting, writing, and lecturing on information security. He is the founder at SRI of I-4 serving more than 75 of the largest multinational corporations in their security for 14 years. He has written six books. His newest book, "Fighting Computer Crime: A New Framework for Protecting Information," (Wiley, 1998) is an international best seller. He received the ISSA Individual Achievement Award, the United States National Computer Systems Security Award, the Aerospace Computer Security Distinguished Lecturer Award, and the MIS Infosecurity Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award. In September 1999, The Information Security Magazine profiled him as a pioneer in information security.

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