<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Matthew N.O. Sadiku</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shumon Alam</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sarhan M. Musa</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information Assurance Benefits and Challenges: An Introduction</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">computer security</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information assurance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information goods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information Security</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information services</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">36</style></volume><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Information assurance (IA) is the practice of protecting and defending information systems by ensuring their availability, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation. As a discipline, IA grew from the practice of information security. It plays a crucial role in a networked infrastructure of e-commerce, e-business, and e-Government. For this reason, IA is a serious worldwide concern of organizations, industry, governments, and academia. This paper provides a brief introduction on information assurance, the benefits it brings, and the challenges in the implementation of the concept.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>