[Cz-computers] A better title than "communications security"?

[Ant]

I think communications security is a subset of information security —  
security of information in motion!

In Europe, information technology (IT) is often called information and  
communications technology (ICT). And you do sometimes see information  
and communications security. But I can't see why it's called out in  
either case...

On a simialr question, a colleague of mine recently wrote the following:

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.

If the scope of the discussion is restricted to ”what makes  
communication secure”, then I think communications security is spot on.

Avoid “greedy” terms!

Ant




On 9 Aug 2008, at 23:41, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:

Actually, I started out thinking I was going to call it "secure  
communication", in the sense of "what makes a communication secure".   
Communications security fell out from pure editing I was doing in  
cryptography.  It doesn't feel right.

Looking at this article, I'm wondering if "information security" is an  
even better title, perhaps reserving "communications security" for  
[[cipher#bulk encryption]], [[spread spectrum]]/[[frequency agility]],  
[[red-black engineering]], protection against things like [[Operation  
RAFTER]], etc.

Thoughts? Comments?

Howard
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