TY - GEN
T1 - The impact of unavailability on the effectiveness of enterprise information security technologies
AU - Parkin, Simon Edward
AU - Kassab, Rouaa Yassin
AU - Van Moorsel, Aad
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper surveys existing enterprise technologies that control access to confidential digital data, and analyzes the impact of system and staff unavailability on the obtained security. The researched technologies allow restrictions to be placed on copying, editing, viewing and printing from within various software applications, provide auditing options and prevent outsider access through encryption. We discuss USB access control solutions, digital rights management software, disk encryption techniques and operating system solutions, respectively. An interesting aspect of the various technologies is their reliance on the cooperation of various people and system components, thus making it vulnerable to unavailability of these people and components. Two opposite effects (security risk and productivity loss) determine the effectiveness of information security technologies, and we analyze the impact of unavailability of resources on both these metrics.
AB - This paper surveys existing enterprise technologies that control access to confidential digital data, and analyzes the impact of system and staff unavailability on the obtained security. The researched technologies allow restrictions to be placed on copying, editing, viewing and printing from within various software applications, provide auditing options and prevent outsider access through encryption. We discuss USB access control solutions, digital rights management software, disk encryption techniques and operating system solutions, respectively. An interesting aspect of the various technologies is their reliance on the cooperation of various people and system components, thus making it vulnerable to unavailability of these people and components. Two opposite effects (security risk and productivity loss) determine the effectiveness of information security technologies, and we analyze the impact of unavailability of resources on both these metrics.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/44649188693
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-68129-8_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-68129-8_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:44649188693
SN - 3540681280
SN - 9783540681281
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 43
EP - 58
BT - Service Availability - 5th International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2008
Y2 - 19 May 2008 through 21 May 2008
ER -