Happy holidays, security men!

In 1988, the American Association of Computing Machinery (Association for Computing Machinery) declared November 30th as the International Information Security Day (Computer Security Day). The purpose of the Day is to remind users of the need to protect their computers and all information stored in them.

By proclaiming Information Security Day, the Association intended to remind everyone of the need to protect computer information, and also to draw the attention of manufacturers and users of hardware and software to security issues.

1988 did not accidentally become the ancestor of the holiday, it was in this year that the first mass epidemic of the “worm” was recorded, named after its creator, Morris. It was then that experts thought about the need for an integrated approach to ensuring information security. Although the prototype of the first computer virus appeared in 1983.