Insider Threats [Hardcover]

An information system may be regarded as an organized set of resources, both technological and human. Security should take this specificity into consideration in order to ensure an overall security of information systems. The security of information systems is usually tackled in a technological perspective. This book proposes to focus not only on information systems' security in a technological perspective, but also in a human, managerial and organizational perspective.

List of Figures ix

List of Scenarios xiii

Preface xv

Introduction xix

Part 1. Information Systems: Technologies and People 1

Chapter 1. Components with Known Purposes: Technologies 3

1.1. Up to the end of the 19th Century: decreasing transmission time 4

1.2. From the end of the 19th Century: decreasing processing time 14

1.3. From the end of the 20th Century: facing massification 21

Chapter 2. Components with Interpretive Aspects: People 25

2.1. Tacit knowing or, how do we know? 26

2.1.1. The existence of tacit knowledge 26

2.1.2. Sense-giving and sense-reading: knowledge is tacit 27

2.2. The interpretative framework, the filter through which we create our knowledge 31

2.2.1. A tool for tacit knowing 31

2.2.2. The different types of interpretative frameworks 34

2.2.3. The commensurability of interpretative frameworks 37

2.3. The concept of incommensurability 38

2.3.1. From partial communication to incommensurability 39

2.3.2. Language – linking words to nature 41

2.3.3. Revolutiol£Ç