At times, it even moves beyond just thinking about defense of physical infrastructure and information-as-commodity to address the role of information operations more broadly conceived, including PSYOPs, deception, etc.

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Restrictions will be relaxed in sectors as diverse as civil aviation, construction development, industrial parks, petroleum and natural gas, commodity exchanges, credit-information services and mining.

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Defending information as a commodity (e.g. assuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability) can sometimes clash with the uses to which information is put (e.g. public affairs, perception management, PSYOPs, intelligence, etc.).

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We also use gossip to create alliances, as information is a coveted commodity.

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It might be noted also that information is becoming a commodity with universities offering online coursework and companies online seminars.

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Thus, the primary focus of the strategy is the defense or protection of the physical information infrastructure and the commodity that it stores and transmits.

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Reed Elsevier has fat margins and high prices in a business based on information--a commodity, and one that is cheaper than ever in the internet era.

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One can be called the information-as-data understanding, which largely sees information as a quantity or commodity to be stored, transmitted, used, and of course defended.

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We, our information, have become their commodity.

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However, as the session wore on selling pressure in gold intensified as traders and investors digested the FOMC minutes and determined the new information had a bearish slant for the raw commodity sector.

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Representatives of large, sophisticated companies that have been actively working to implement the expected requirements spoke eloquently at an October 2011 SEC Roundtable discussion of the complexity of their supply chains and the difficulty in obtaining solid information from their upstream suppliers on the origins of common, commodity metals like tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold in purchased products and components.

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The strategy recognizes the need for agencies to gain proficiency in managing or consuming shared IT services and therefore provides an initial focus on commodity IT consolidation opportunities, as called for in the August 2011 OMB memo to Chief Information Officers.

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The Energy Information Agency earlier this year estimated that exporting gas would raise the price of the commodity domestically.

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