Section moved from article I ve cut pasted the following section from the article to here pending resolution of WP COPYVIO issues raised by the last line Motivation Per John McCumber s website the idea behind McCumber cube is to push back the advance of security as an art and support it with a structured methodology that functions independent of technology evolution The methodology rests on the relationships between the tracking of information as it moves through states of transmission storage and processing the charting of information security attributes of confidentiality integrity and availability and judging the information security risks of technology procedures and human interventions Copyright 2004 Book News Inc Portland OR