Information security in IT society: humanitarian aspects.

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Information security in IT society humanitarian
aspects.

• Prof. Petro Bekh
• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev

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IT vunarability and impact

• E.g. Terrorist uses of the Internet
• Propaganda publicity
• Fundraising (or finance)
• Information dissemination sharing information
• Underground communication networking
• Recruitment mobilization etc., etc.

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Consequences of data security violation

• political resignation of a government
• military change of the cryptography technique
• business financial damages
• personal loss of job or accommodation

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Aspects of information security

• software data protection
• safety of data storage

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Information stored in a digital form

• list of top secrete agents
• financial transactions
• blood and cell analyses
• holographic copies of masterpieces

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Software methods of data protection

• the faster computers - the more sophisticated
  methods
• none of the codes could be cracked mathematically

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Destruction danger

• physical destruction is much more easier than
  decoding
• destruction has greater political effects
• weapon of terrorists

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Ways of solution

• compression algorithms
• firewalls
• antivirus programs
• dubbing technique
• read-only storages

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What should we store carefully

• commercial data
• political and official texts (documents, laws,
  agreements etc.)
• numerical tables
• manuscripts
• soniferous sources (songs, symphonies, etc.)
• paintings

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Sources of danger

• Crime
• Terrorism
• Fires, Floods, hurricane (like latest Katrina),
  earthquakes, etc.

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What the civilized world should do

• develop mathematical/software methods
• digitize masterpieces
• use copies instead of originals
• implement reliable storage techniques
• organize safe depositories