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The Importance of Trust in Information Security in Interconnected Organisations

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The introduction of technology into massive personal and professional environments, initially by gathering information and then handling and processing it for increasingly important functions while managing systems as interconnected entities, has a number of positive aspects, yet it also entails a progressive increase in risk in all information areas.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Security should not be confused with security measures. Security measures enable us to increase the likelihood that our expectations will be met (in a nutshell, security).

  2. 2.

    La Era de la Información, vol. 1, p.226.

  3. 3.

    For Spain see the Information Society and Electronic Commerce Services Law 34/2002 of 11 July (Article 18).

  4. 4.

    “Ética en Internet” in Ecclesia, 16 March 2002, p.406.

  5. 5.

    http://www.infosectoday.com/Articles/Intro_Computer_Ethics.htm

  6. 6.

    http://www.infosectoday.com/Articles/Intro_Computer_Ethics.htm

  7. 7.

    http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/time-ripe-for-business-ethics-says-cardinal

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    The applicability of this conception was evidenced from various standpoints in the 20th century including Michel Villey and Javier Hervada. Cf. M. VILLEY, Compendio de filosofía del derecho, Spanish translation, 2 vol. EUNSA, Pamplona 1979-1981; J. HERVADA, Introducción crítica al derecho natural, 6th ed., EUNSA, Pamplona 1990.

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García, M.P.C., Gil-Pechuán, I., Guillen, J.M.A. (2014). The Importance of Trust in Information Security in Interconnected Organisations. In: Gil-Pechuán, I., Palacios-Marqués, D., Peris-Ortiz, M., Vendrell, E., Ferri-Ramirez, C. (eds) Strategies in E-Business. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8184-3_12

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