infosec

English

Etymology

Contraction.

Noun

infosec (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of information security.

   Coordinate term: netsec

   • 1999, Fred B Schneider, Trust in Cyberspace:

     The plan also emphasizes technology transfer to the infosec side of NSA […]

   • 2005, Robert Schperberg, Kenneth C Brancik, Cybercrime: Incident Response and Digital Forensics:

     Analysis of the intersection between infosec and computer forensics.

   • 2006, Jack R Greene, The Encyclopedia of Police Science:

     Information security (infosec) is "the protection of information and its critical elements, including the systems and hardware that use, store, and transmit […]

   • 2006, Gary McGraw, Software Security: Building Security In:

     This was just plain deceitful and wrong, but the infosec people were too clueless ... This hampered infosec's ability to apply modern analysis techniques […]