Information Systems Security; Major concern in Past, Present and Future

Information Systems security is one of the biggest challenges facing society’s technological age.  Information Systems have become an integral part of everyday life in the home, businesses, government, and organizations.  Information Systems have changed the way that people live their lives, conduct business, even run the government.   Information Systems have become such an important part of everyday life because there are many uses of Information Systems that make it much easier and faster to perform certain tasks, or even to perform certain tasks simultaneously.  

Information Systems have become so developed and detailed in their short history.  Society has developed along with the Information Systems, becoming a more technologically-reliable generation, also known as the digital firm era.  Along with an increasing reliability for Information Systems, the digital firm era has also brought about an increasing profitability, competitiveness, and efficiency for any business of any size that uses an Information Systems. 

Since the current technological generation has become so dependent upon Information Systems, the problems threatening Information Systems also threaten the order of everyday activities that many take for granted.  The intricate role that Information Systems plays in daily activities has been developed near to perfection, but there are many current problems such as spamming, hacking, jamming, malicious software, sniffing, spoofing, and identity theft.  These current problems are threatening the reliability and security of Information Systems.  

With these current problems threatening Information Systems, users of Information Systems have been in the search for new techniques and new technology that will help fix the devastating consequences. Along with new techniques and new technology fixing these problems, users of Information Systems must also protect themselves. The future of Information Systems is somewhat unknown since it lies in the hands of the users.  This unexpectedness also means  with many unexpected problems that the users will have to solve.

To be continued ...