A rose by any other name…

Is there any significant difference between “information security” and “computer security”? Or between “information security” and “information risk management”?

Or are they overlapping but distinct areas?

Waddya think?

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I think its an example of linguistic inflation. What used to be referred to as computer security started to morph into information security in the mid 90s. Today, even as the term information risk becomes more prevalent, it is potentially becoming obsolete because of the growing popularity of information assurance.

At the heart of it all, we're still doing computer security.

I made an arbitrary decision to tag earlier books as computer security, and later books as information security, which will give me a chance to play with some of the power editing features on LibraryThing.

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