@article{Md Siraj_2018, title={Preface}, volume={8}, url={https://ijic.utm.my/index.php/ijic/article/view/173}, DOI={10.11113/ijic.v8n1.173}, abstractNote={<p>Information Assurance and Security (IAS) is a field of research that focus on the management and protection of knowledge, information and data. It combines two fields:</p><ul><li><em>Information assurance</em>, which focuses on ensuring the availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation of information and systems. These measures may include providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.</li><li><em>Information security</em>, which emphasizes on the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.</li></ul><p>Information systems play an important role in the infrastructure that supports commerce, banking, telecommunications, health care, and national security, driving the need for qualified IAS specialists.</p><p>This special issue is a platform for Master of Science (Information Security) students to publish their final year project/research findings. The papers published in this issue have been reviewed by at least 3 reviewers or lecturers in the area of IAS. The scopes of research area conducted by the students are:</p><p>- Information Security Awareness, Evaluation, Maturity Model/Metamodel<br />- Security Issues in Cloud<br />- Spam Email/Review/Web Detection<br />- Biometrics Recognition<br />- Privacy Preserving Data Mining<br />- Cyber Security Analytics and Visualization<br />- Digital Forensics and Investigation<br />- Others</p>}, number={1}, journal={International Journal of Innovative Computing}, author={Md Siraj, Maheyzah}, year={2018}, month={May} }