Information Assurance Considerations
To develop a comprehensive set of security policies, start with the goals of information security: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Information assurance (IA) tenets also include nonrepudiation and authentication.
One of the prime objectives of the information security program is to assure that information is protected. Ensuring confidentiality means limiting access to information to authorized users only. The integrity of the information must also be maintained so that it can be trusted for decision making. A system is considered to have integrity when you can trust that any modifications to the data were intentional changes made by authorized users or business processes. Availability ensures ...
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