IT Security to Information Assurance: The Steps towards Eco Friendly and Sustainable Information Systems

Abstract

Information Technology is become important source for the development. Today almost all kind of organizations, institutions, and individuals are using IT for its wider benefits. Initially Computing considered as a branch of study for the promotion of computational and information affairs but gradually the development and requirement of information lead few other branches and among these important is Information Technology. The gradual development and uses of IT and Computing in various sectors and places creates the requirement of security concerns. The initial security treated as Cryptography and then gradually the concept of Computer Security has been arrived. Later the importance of Network, Websites and Database led the concept of IT Security. Hence in this context, IT Security is most broader for the development of technological information security. Though as far as information privacy and security is concerned the branch called Information Security is also important for its nature; as it is also responsible for the security and privacy of manual contents and information. The Information Assurance is another name responsible for the design and development of manual and traditional contents systems with proper policies, framework and regulation formulation. The branch Information Assurance is the need of hour as it is deals with manual contents also and this is vice versa responsible for the sustainable information systems development. This paper is talks about the basics of security, related technologies and specially the importance of Information Assurance as a sustainable and developed field of theory and practice.