Security techniques for the global information infrastructure

Information security has become an issue of critical importance; the potentially huge moves towards a global information infrastructure (GII) and electronic commerce heavily depend on the security issues being resolved. Before the GII and electronic commerce obtain widespread use and general acceptance, confidence is required that the security techniques being employed are sufficient to guarantee the effective protection of the information transmitted processed and stored. The authors look at the GII security requirements, the needs for security standardization, the work underway and the tasks ahead.