Chapter 1: Understanding the Information World Environment

The world is not merely the world. It is our world. It is not merely an industrial world. It is, above all things, a human world.—Agnes E. Meyer^[1]

Chapter Objective

The objective of this chapter, "Understanding the Information World Environment," is to provide a general overview of the changing information-dominated and information-dependent global environment in which the information systems security officer (ISSO) must work.

^[1]Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970), U.S. journalist. Out of These Roots, Chapter 13 (1953). Meyer was concerned about the negative impact of technological progress on human happiness. From The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright 1996 Columbia University Press.