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Computer Security Issues

As of 20th century the value of information is approaching the value of gold, platinum, oil and other expensive commodities. In fact as the global recession expands, the value of information is rising faster than the value of natural products such as metals or oil. As the value of information goes up, it is attracting more sophisticated kinds of thievery. In the past hacking and viruses were often individual efforts, sometimes carried out by students and even by high-school students sometimes just for the thrill of accomplishing the act.

However in today's world theft of valuable information has migrated to organized crime, terrorist groups, and even to hostile foreign governments. Not only that but denial of service attacks and "search bots" that can take over computers are powerful and sophisticated enough to shut down corporate data centers and interfere with government operations. This situation is going to get worse as the global economy declines.

Since computers are used to store valuable information such as financial records, medical records, patents, trade secrets, classified military information, customer lists, addresses and email addresses, phone number, and social security numbers the total value of stored information is in the range of trillions of dollars. There is no other commodity in the modern that is simultaneously so valuable and so easy to steal as information stored in a computer. Not only are the increasing threats against software and financial data, but it is technically within the realm of possibility to hack into voting and election software as well. Any computer connected to the outside world by any means is at risk. Even computers that are physically isolated may be at some risk due to their electromagnetic emissions. Although many individual organizations such as Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the FBI, NSA, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Symantec, McAffee, Kaspersky, Computer Associates and scores of others have fairly competent security staffs and also security tools, the entire topic needs to have a central coordinating organization that would monitor security threats and distribute data on best practices for preventing them. The fragmentation of the software security world makes it difficult to organize defenses against all known threats, and to monitor the horizon for future threats. Also, much of the security literature deals with threats after development and deployment. The need to address security as a fundamental principle of architecture, design, and development is poorly covered. A book related to this topic by Ken Hamer-Hodges, "Authorization Oriented Architecture," will deal with more fundamental subjects. Among these is automating computer security to move the problem from the user to the system itself. The way to do this is through detailed boundary management. That is why objects plus capabilities matter. Also security frames such as Google Caja which prevent redirection to phishing sites are best practices. The new E programming language is also a best practice, since it is designed to ensure optimum security.

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