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Fundamentals of Information Systems Security, 4th Edition
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Fundamentals of Information Systems Security, 4th Edition

by David Kim, Michael G. Solomon
December 2021
Beginner
550 pages
20h 48m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Keeping Private Data Confidential

Many of the compliance requirements that we presented in earlier sections address data confidentiality. Even though ensuring availability and integrity of data is important, keeping private information confidential garners the most attention because, once the confidentiality of data has been breached, it cannot be undone. In other words, once people view confidential data, there is no way to remove that data from their memory. Careful attention must be paid to each of the three tenets of information security, as shown in FIGURE 4-3, to protect an organization’s data assets.

The three tenets in information systems security are Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability which is also known as the C I A triad. The illustration shows a triangle with computing devices inside it and the three tenets labeled on the sides of the triangle.

FIGURE 4-3 The three tenets of information ...

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ISBN: 9781284220742