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How has computer security evolved into modern information security?

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Computer security in the earlier days was concerned primarily with controlling access to the computer system itself. In today's modern era data is a commodity that everyone wants, so confidentiality is a way to control access to information.

Information security has to control who has access to data, and this is not just via the computer or the network. So to answer the question, it started with computer access and evolved to ways of protecting confidential data that may be retrieved or accessed anywhere, not just via the computer.

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