CHAPTER 6: SELF-PREPARATION: BUILDA TRACK RECORD
All information security practitioners know, intellectually, that confidentiality, integrity and availability (C, I and A) are the three key principles of information security management. However, most practitioners actually concentrate more, in their day-to-day environments, on protecting confidentiality and integrity. The concept of ‘security’ doesn’t seem to contain the idea of availability.
However, to the business manager, ‘availability’ is the most important attribute of information. Line managers want to be sure that they, and their people, can access the information they need to do their job, as and when they need it. This business desire for availability often clashes with the practitioner’s ...
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