INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECURITY HANDBOOK

IT-SECURITY

I N F O R M AT I O N TECHNOLOGY SECURITY HANDBOOK

by George Sadowsky

James X. Dempsey

Alan Greenberg

Barbara J. Mack

Alan Schwartz

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ACRONYMS

ICT Information and Communication Technology OECD DAC Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Development Assistance Committee

MDGs Millennium Development Goals NGO Non?Government-Organization WSIS World Summit on the Information Society DotForce Digital Opportunity Task Force of the G8 states.

G8 Major industrial democracies have been meeting annually since 1975 to deal with the major economic and political issues facing their domestic societies and the international community as a whole. These states ? the G8 ? contain France, USA, Germany, Japan, Italy, Great Britain, Canada and ? since the Birmingham Summit in 1998 - Russia.

UN ICT Task Force United Nations Information and Communication Technology Task Force PDA Personal Digital Assistant

SME's Small and Medium Enterprises HIPC Highly Indebted Poor Countries

FDI Foreign Direct Investment OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development DFID Department for International Development ITDG Intermediate Technologies Development Group VoIP Voice-over-Internet-Protocol

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