Preferred label

Information security                

Alternative label

Scope note

The practice of defending information from unwanted inspection, modification, recording, transmission, destruction, or other intervention. Information security encompasses document security, but also takes into account non-tangible communication methods, such as whispering or email encryption.         

Parent concept

Discipline        

uh-linked-data/concept/604        

Related concept 

Document security        

uh-linked-data/concept/109        

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT     

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/193