Information Security Technology—Present and Future

Today, in the same way as lifelines such as water, electricity, and gas services have become taken for granted, information has also become an indispensable lifeline for industrial societies as well as people's everyday lives. Under these circumstances, the question of information security arises. We have been engaged in addressing this issue for a long time. In the following, we will take a look back on the evolution of information security, and we will search out issues of note as regards now and in years to come.

(Publication: Jul. 24, 2007)
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• Prologue
• 11. The era in which a secure information lifeline is being maintained
• 22. The "I" in "CIA"—three components of information security—is at issue
• 33. The key point in solving the problems facing security is "biometric authentication"
• 44. Quantum cryptography is the core technology of future information security
• 55. Privacy and copyright are called into question in the ubiquitous era
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