ABSTRACT

Ours is a connected world, and a dependent world. The

condition and livelihood of any organization is dependent

on the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of infor-

mation obtained from or protected from other sources.

Today, organizations are at greater risk and their security

stance against malicious actors, in the form of individuals,

criminal cartels, terrorists, or nation-states, will affect the

well-being of many persons, other companies, and perhaps

the nation. These organizations often depend upon cyber-

space-hundreds of millions of interconnected computers,

servers, routers, switches, and fiber-optic cables that allow

our critical infrastructures to work.[1]