Information security is the process of preventing unauthorized access to, use of, disclosure of,
interruption of, alteration of, or destruction of information and information systems in order to
maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The objective is to guarantee the security and
privacy of sensitive data, including financial information, intellectual property, and account
information for customers.
Although maintaining organizational productivity is frequently a crucial factor, the primary
purpose of any information security is protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (the
CIA triad) of information.
Confidentiality: What is it?
Information must not be made accessible to or disclosed to processes, businesses, or people
who are not permitted. Although the two concepts are similar, they shouldn't be used
interchangeably.
A part of privacy known as confidentiality employs security measures to guard against
unauthorized viewers. Due to GDPR and other regulatory constraints, user privacy has
increasingly become a part of confidentiality.
Protecting against laptop theft, password theft, and other security management approaches are
other forms of secrecy.
Describe integrity.
The maintenance, assurance, accuracy, and completeness of data during its entire lifecycle are
all aspects of integrity, often known as data integrity. This entails putting in place security
controls to make sure that data cannot be altered or deleted by an uninvited party or in an
unnoticed way.
Describe availability.
Any information system must be accessible when needed in order to be valuable. This means
that information processing and storing computer systems, security measures, and
communication channels all need to be available whenever needed.
Real-time, high availability solutions are increasingly important to businesses and their clients.
As a result, information security experts are becoming more concerned with assuring availability
by averting hardware malfunctions, power outages, and denial of service attacks. Since the end
users are the ones who must be able to access the information, availability is frequently seen as
the most crucial component of an effective information security program.
