Advanced Concept of Information Security Comprehensive Science

Abstract

Information security and ethics as bases of our life are becoming increasingly important in the new information society which we have never experienced before.  In this paper, we present an advanced concept of information security in terms of comprehensive science. Freedom, Security and Privacy are the three key values of information society.  These three values are liable to conflict with each other and among them, sometimes three contradictions  arises. We  use  the  concept  of “Aufheben,” (sublate), a technical term of philosophy, to cope with it. S. Tsujii introduced a new concept of information security as the comprehensive science in 1993. Moreover, we have endeavored to evaluate the effectiveness of the concept by establishing the  “MELT  UP  Forum.”   The  MELT  UP  Forum aims to foster, to identify and to extend a core or comprehensive science that deals with Management, Ethics, Law, and Technology across a wide spectrum of endeavors