Recently, IT has entered all important areas of society. Enterprises, individuals and civilisations all depend on functioning, safe and secure IT. Focus on IT security has previously been fractionalised, detailed and often linked to non-business applicaitons. The aim of this book is to address the current and future prospects of modern IT security, functionality in business, trade, industry, health care and government. The main topic areas covered include existing IT security tools and methodology for modern IT environments, laws, regulations and ethics in IT security environments, current and future prospects in technology, infrastructures, technique and methodology and IT security in retrospective.

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Preface. IFIP SEC' 97 Conference Committees. Part one: Secure information systems. Part two: Secure data bases. Part three: Management of information security and risks (I). Part four: Secure group communication. Part five: Secure commercial systems (I). Part six: Tools for intrusion detection. Part seven: Privacy and education. Part eight: Assessment and evaluation of secure systems. Part nine: Management of information security and risks (II). Part ten: Cryptopolicies. Part eleven: Secure commercial systems (II). Part twelve: Security in healthcare systems. Part thirteen: Secure communications and networks. Index of contributors. Keyword index.