I am presently working on creating a taxonomy of information assurance, based on the three aspects of: Security services Information states Security countermeasures These three aspects of Information Assurance (IA) were highlighted by John McCumber [1] as well as a team . . .
I am presently working on creating a taxonomy of information assurance, based on the three aspects of: Security services Information states Security countermeasures These three aspects of Information Assurance (IA) were highlighted by John McCumber [1] as well as a team of West Point researchers [2] as a component of works that define an integrated approach to security.

Within the next 6 months, I would like to create a taxonomy that graphically depicts the relationships of these three aspects.

My intent is that this taxonomy could be used by the academic community, industry, and government in improving the precision of communication used in discussing information assurance/security topics.

I have searched the Internet widely for a taxonomy of IA, but I have not found anything that is sufficiently detailed for application with real world problems.

I am posting my initial results here in hopes that an open collaboration process (much like the open source software movement) will yield a useful tool for the security community to use in addressing information assurance issues.

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