Information Assurance or IA, ensures trust and security in a highly distributed network environment such as the Defense Information Infrastructure, or DII.

IA is critical in today's information technology and computer-intensive age.

World-wide, people are connecting to the Internet in record numbers, estimated to reach 1 billion by the year 2000;

We are increasingly dependent on the use of integrated networks that support both classified and unclassified information;

And we are turning to commercial-off-the-shelf technology products that may leave us vulnerable to security issues.

Related Sites:
* Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
* President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection