Afrasianet - Information security, from an academic point of view, is the science which studies the theories and strategies of providing protection for information from threatening risks and violation activities. From a technical perspective; it is the means, tools and procedures necessary to guarantee the protection of information from internal and external jeopardies.
From a legal perspective, Information Security is a subject of studies and measures taken to protect the confidentiality and safety of the content and availability of information, as well as to control activities of violation to its content or using its systems in committing crimes; the objective and cause for legislations issued for protecting information from illegitimate and illegal activities targeting information and their systems (cybercrimes).
The term Information Security, despite being used far before the birth of the means of information technology, is widely and functionally used in the scope of data processing and transmission via computers and means of telecommunication.
As technological means of processing, storing and interacting with data through networks – especially the internet – become widespread, the researches and studies of information technology occupy an ever-growing space between diverse information technology researches, and perhaps begin to be an obsession of all.
Governments and business organizations in this digital age are becoming more and more dependent on their information systems.
Simultaneously, the threats facing information security by criminals and terrorists are increasing and continuously accelerating.
As for business community, a competitive privilege attributed to it is the easiness of reaching information. In a statement made by the former American president "Ronal Reagan" in 1989 he said "Information is the oxygen of the modern age", therefore any gap in the information security barrier is an opportunity for hackers and terrorists to steal and view information, as virus-infected computers where viruses prevail their business network destroy their own information, in a process called self-destruction.
Information Security Worldwide
In light of the unprecedented disturbances witnessed in today's world, and the development of organizations usually categorized as terrorist, the need becomes persistent to create a common information security system for between all world countries to be part of the United Nations organizations, although many countries would abstain from such participating; knowing that the American domination fond of spying methods would be the main beneficiary of such system.
Other countries, on the other hand; such as Russia and China, place at the top of their priorities: international law, equal rights for states and peoples, and the rejection of the domination of a single polar.
America Cannot Be Entrusted With Any Information
Several countries worldwide are familiar with the fact that the United States of America has always been spying leaders and heads of states and even their citizens, without any sense of responsibility or courtesy.
Many demonstrative examples can be found. Plenty of documentations revealed that the United States spy even on its friends and the results of this revelation are still spilling over. For instance, some documentation revealed the spying of the National Security Agency NSA on three presidents of France: Francois Hollande, Nicola Sarkozy, and Jacques Chirac from 2006 until 2012.
According to the leaked documents, wiretapping operations have directly targeted the phone calls of French presidents, as well ministers of the French government and French ambassadors in the United States.
In addition, those operations contained a list of the phone numbers of many officials at Elysee Palace, as well as presidents' personal phone numbers.
Documentations included also correspondences between officials at the French government regarding some of the most persistent issues facing France and the International Community, namely the global financial crisis, the Greek debt crisis, sovereignty and the future of the European Union, the relationship between Hollande's administration and the German government led by Angela Merkel, involving France in the conflict in Palestine, and the dispute between the French government and the American on the United States spying on France.
The Guardian: A Memo Reveals America Spied on 35 World Leaders
A new confidential memo was revealed by the guardian, leaked by American former intellectual contractor Edward Snowden indicts that the NSA spied on the phone conversations of 35 world leaders.
The memo the Guardian was provided with a copy of which suggested that the NSA is urging prominent officials at several the White House, Pentagon and the government agencies to share whatever phone numbers of prominent world politicians they might have in order to add them to its database.
The memo also reveals that an unnamed official supplied the NSA with more than 200 numbers, including 35 belonging to world leaders. Officers at the agency were entitled immediately to monitor the phone calls made on those numbers.
The Guardian added that this memo which is dated October 2006 demonstrates that this matter was not a single event.
The same issue was referred to in the Independent, which stated that the "US Scandal" - so it called it – “of spying on phone calls jumped to the main scene in Europe for the first time.
"Rupad" first tablet competing with Google
Operating System Called "RoMos"
The continuous American spying does not mean there are no attempts to encounter it. For instance: the Russian Ministry of Defense decided to produce their own tablets without depending on Google information or maps, having had enough of the spying methods followed by the American government in order to observe and monitor all movements made by the officials of the Russian government and its Ministry of Defense and to reveal most confidential and critical governmental phone calls.
A work team subject to the National Nuclear Research Institute at Moscow University invented the first Russian tablet holding the name "RuPad", operating via a system given the name "RoMos"; an abbreviation for Russian Mobile Operating System, produced in Russia and designed and developed by this team under the supervision of Andrei Starikovsky Director of the Production Unit at the university and at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.
According to Starikovsky, the RuMos has characteristics, specifications, and abilities very similar to Google's famous operating system "Android", and it can be considered a modified copy of Google OS.
However, it is distinguished from the latter in terms of confidentiality, privacy and information security. It doesn't send the user's database to the information company Google's site as is the case with Android systems. This was declared by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at IFA conference held at the German capital Berlin.
Demetri Michalov, the general manager of the project of developing the Russian operating system which consumed five years of development, that "the Russian government does not fear the American government or Google company for that matter, yet it does not trust Google's information security and considers information leaking in general a major source of anxiety for the leaders of Russia."
Conclusion:
The matter of deciding to establish a global information security organization, regardless of its necessity, collides with the distrust of all world countries without exception in the United States of America, since America believes it has the right to manage world’s affairs and to control those information even with its allies, unlike Russia and China who believe that information, regardless of their degree of privacy, should be used only the targets of serving international coherence and global peace, and the right of all peoples to create their future without submitting to foreign effects, especially the United States of America which deems itself world’s leader, while being rejected by all countries.