An Information Assurance Framework on Trusted Autonomic Communications

Increasing incidents of security breaches and identity thefts have pressured organizations to make information security a priority in order to restore consumerspsila trust. As shown in the four case studies reported in this paper, ensuring information security goes beyond advanced technological solutions as it involves a complex interaction process between human actors and these technological solutions. Therefore, we propose an Information Assurance framework to address the complexity of information security, and illustrate the usefulness of our framework by applying it to the four cases. We conclude the study with a discussion and directions for future research.