An acronym for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, the CIA Triad is a concept used by cybersecurity professionals to model and prioritize their efforts. It manages the tug of war between keeping data intact, untouched and ready for use for those who need it while preventing unauthorized...
CIA task force created to look into WikiLeaks; needs a better acronym The United States’ clandestine security group — the Central Intelligence Agency — has created a task force to, as the Washington Post reports, “assess the impact of … ...
TheCIA Triadserves two purposes. First, it can be used as a model for creating security measures and, second, it ensures that important areas of security are covered. Each of those areas is represented by one of the letters in the CIA acronym:confidentiality,integrity, andavailability. ...