Practical Information Security A Competency-Based Education Course

Nowadays, security is becoming number one priority for governments, organization, companies, and individuals. Security is all about protecting critical and valuable assets. Protecting valuable and critical assets, whether they are tangible or intangible, is a process that can be ranged from being unsophisticated to being very sophisticated. Security is a broad term that serves as an umbrella for many topics including but not limited to computer security, internet security, communication security, network security, application security, data security, and information security. In this chapter, and following the scope of the textbook, we will discuss about information security and provide an overview about general information security concepts, recent evolutions, and current challenges in the field of information security.