The term Computer Security

The earlier issues of the computer security have to do with computer vandalism, preserving the low operation temperature, and maintaining the electricity. While recent issues of computer security flaws engage more complex problems, including intruder attack, copyright infringement, privacy violation, natural disaster and even more extensive challenge, business continuity. Such issues will unsurprisingly elevate quantitatively and qualitatively as computer usages are increasing in numbers and in its application diversity. And so the term computer security will also shift.

The term computer security has evolved aligned with the expansion of utilization of the computer, while the pace of the growth of the computer security needs, have been multiplied by a number of factors, primarily by the advancement of hardware and software.

Though the term Computer Security has extensive coverage, but common understanding of computer security nowadays concerns mostly about;
 ensuring that the information is protected along its life span;
 maintaining 100% of data integrity, and;
 protecting the computer operation against attacker, unintended human error, or natural disruption that could lead to malfunction or system fall down.
Other concerns are access control, authenticity and non-repudiation.

Computer Security, Information Security or Information System Security are popular terms where people usually use interchangeably to refer to such common understanding, while Network Security is taken in.