It-security

the forgotten dimension of modernization

Otto Ulrich

pp. 125-132

in: Gerhard Banse, Petr Machleidt, Dagmar Uhl, Christian J. Langenbach (eds), Towards the information society, Berlin, Springer, 2000

Abstract

We cannot yet foresee today whether the security problem will in the end cause the failure of the information technology project. But it will be this area that determines whether the foundations of the information technology are firm and secure. Problems of information-technological security tend to be noticed only once damage has already been done. By means of some examples we wish to show the effects and the causes of some such occurrences.