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Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy

ACISP 2009: Information Security and Privacy pp 1–7Cite as

Is the Information Security King Naked?

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As children we probably all often listened to the fable of the king who rode nakedly through the street thinking he wore a beautiful new coat created for him by his (rogue) tailor. Nobody wanted to tell him that he was naked, because they all feared him – until a small boy revealed the truth.

This paper asks whether the IT industry is not in the same position – Information Security wise totally naked - although everyone tells everyone else how secure our IT systems are.

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  1. University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Basie von Solms

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  1. Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Qld 4001, Brisbane, Australia

    Colin Boyd

  2. Information Security Institute, Queensland Univ. of Technology, GPO Box 2434, QLD, 4001, Brisbane, Australia

    Juan González Nieto

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von Solms, B. (2009). Is the Information Security King Naked?. In: Boyd, C., González Nieto, J. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02620-1_1

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