Information Assurance And Security Ethics In Complex Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Information Assurance and Security Ethics in Complex Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Review This 11-chapter edited collection focuses on the interaction between technology and ethics, mostly related to such topics as privacy, access, safety, liability, and reliability. Contemporary emerging issues discussed include the impact of international cultures, right versus wrong group norms, peer-to-peer networks, software security, insider-threat monitoring, behavioral advertising, pharmacogenetic testing, public policy, and cyber trust. This reviewer particularly liked the attempt in chapter 3 to dissect a technologically driven ethical issue through a role-playing case study. [...] Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. --H. Levkowitz, University of Massachusetts, USA. Choice, July 2011. The problems encountered in ensuring that modern computing systems are used appropriately cannot be solved with technology alone, nor can they be addressed independent of the underlying computational fabric.