Information Security: Emerging Cybersecurity Issues Threaten Federal Information Systems

ISBN-10: 1422302245
ISBN-13: 9781422302248
Series: Information Security
Pages: 80
Language: English
Published: 2005-11
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Author: Gregory C. Wilshusen

Description

Fed. agencies are facing a set of cybersecurity threats that are the result of increasingly sophisticated methods of attack & the blending of once distinct types of attack into more complex & damaging forms. Examples of these threats include: spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail), phishing (fraudulent messages to obtain personal or sensitive data), & spyware (software that monitors user activity without user knowledge or consent). This report determines: the potential risks to fed. systems from these emerging cybersecurity threats; the fed. agencies' perceptions of risk & their actions to mitigate them, fed. & private-sector actions to address the threats on a nat. level; & governmentwide challenges to protecting fed. systems from these threats. Illus.