A Group-Enhanced ISSI Model for Secure Interconnection of Information Systems

Ethics has typically been considered an essential facet of secure interconnection of information systems. In closed networks common ethics among users is a valid assumption, and various models for the management of information security have been proposed where ethics governs various operational and managerial information security related tasks. Emergence of open, public networks, such as the Internet, makes the ethics-based models problematic. These problems shall be analysed and an enhancement shall be proposed for the ISSI (Information Systems Secure Interconnection) model. Proposed enhancements improve the feasibility of ISSI model in open, public networks and make it more feasible by aligning it with human group behaviour and security enforcement technology.