8Key Cybersecurity Terminology and Statistics
We don’t have a cyber problem, we have an English problem.
Paul Ferrillo, Partner, McDermott, Will, and Emory
Cyber risk and the CIA triad
A cyber-attack is an assault perpetrated by a threat source that attempts to exfiltrate data, interrupt business processes, and/or alter data. Exfiltrating data is a confidentiality issue, the interrupting of business processes is an availability issue and altering data is an integrity issue.
The CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) Triad does not have a single inventor and emerged from the collective wisdom of many cybersecurity experts. The notion of confidentiality was first mentioned in a 1976 US Air Force study. ...
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