Impact of a Data Classification Standard

Impact of a Data Classification Standard

Introduction

Organizational leaders believe the change in IT is the first time that organizations have encountered a changing technology that took less time to transition into the world's global economy. The change surprised leadership as incongruous, but also proved that the world is changing. During the March 13, 2008 House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on terrorism, stated that the “U.S. Army's Science and Technology (S&T) investment strategy was shaped to pursue technologies that would create unmatched and unknown capabilities for future land combat forces. Secondly, the capacity of an organization is critical to the capability of non profit organizations to implement technology.

Information Technology Infrastructure Domains

The digital computer age began in the mid-twentieth century, and the idea of interconnecting those large and expensive computers was contemplated soon after that. The original reasons for interconnecting computers usually involved load balancing (those expensive machines had to be kept busy) or data transmission (collecting all the data for a computer to run at one location). The ideas of connecting people to computers and connecting people to people came later: first to connect people to time-sharing computers and then connecting people to people by e-mail, and finally, connecting people to information (when disk storage got cheap enough to store a lot of information on computers).

Continuing technological developments and political situations accelerated the realization of computer networking, and one of the most innovative approaches, the ARPAnet, was sponsored by the U.S. government beginning in the 1960s. In the 1980s, after the ARPAnet had proved to be successful, continuing technological developments and new political considerations led to the creation of the NSFnet, which galvanized the emergence of the global infrastructure that is the Internet.

During the NSFnet period, the ARPAnet heritage was turned into the privatized, commercialized, and globalized Internet that can be said to have begun in 1995 with the retirement of the NSFnet. This chapter will emphasize the development of the NSFnet for three reasons: first, the ARPAnet has already been written about extensively (Salus 1995; Hafner and Lyon 1996; Hughes 1998; Abbate 1999; Waldrop 2001; Kruse, Schmorrow, and Sears 2005), whereas the NSFnet has not; second, it is of interest to follow the interrelated political, economic, and technical threads as this novel technology changed over a decade from a small, special purpose network to a general purpose infrastructure; third, the author has personal knowledge of the development ...