Analysis possibilities of the toolset of information security

Abstract

Regarding the limited availability of compre hensive Hungarian literature on this topic, this paper aims to collect tools of information security utilised by all involved parties and present them to the professional audience in a structured manner. Involved parties consist of users of information infrastructures who a re exposed to threats, defence personnel contributing to the maintenance of security level, and attackers that probe the effectiveness of security systems. Tools are widely mapped, including concepts that belong to the logical layer of cybersecurity, as well as physically manifested devices, systems, networks and programs. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to describe the tools by main dimensions and detailed characteristics in a way that, according to these attributes, a comprehensiv e analysis of comparison can be performed. As a result of the analysis since tools are collected both from military and civil background the author makes efforts to determine ways of classification of information security tools, in order to facilitate more successful targeting of further researches of the topic both within military, administrative (public service) and civil context.