Download this eBook to learn how to avoid a costly data breach with a comprehensive prevention strategy. Download Now How to Measure Data Sensitivity To determine how sensitive specific is and how it should be classified, think about the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA triad) of ...
Confidentiality, integrity and availability (the CIA triad) is a security model that guides information security policies within organizations. To avoid confusion with the Central Intelligence Agency, the model is also referred to as the AIC triad. There is a debate whether or not the CIA triad...
APT attacks typically involve multiple stages — such as reconnaissance, exploitation, establishing a foothold,lateral movement, anddata exfiltrationor disruption of operations. (If these sound similar to thecyber kill chain, you're not wrong.) Each stage is carefully planned and executed to maximize...
The primary goal of cybersecurity is to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and technology systems. Confidentiality ensures that only authorized individuals can access sensitive data, while integrity ensures that data remains unaltered and accurate. Availabi...
Pulling the Plug on Data Availability Ensuring uninterrupted access to critical information is vital for organizations, partners, and customers. The potential repercussions of inaccessible data extend beyond operational challenges to encompass reputational damage and strained client relationships, as well as ...
For this reason, creating a DDoS response plan and redundancy in your systems is a way of ensuring availability. However, when there’s no attack, systems can still fail and become unavailable, so load balancing and fault tolerance are a way to keep systems from failing. How can Security...
Availability — ensuring that data remains available and useful for its end-users, and that this access is not hindered by system malfunction, cyber attacks, or even security measures themselves. The CIA Triad defines three key principles of data security To achieve the CIA objectives organizations...
What is "availability" in security? Availability refers to maintaining the ability to access your resources when needed, even under duress: a natural disaster or after suffering intentional cyberattacks. And if this definition of availability feels like a moving target, you’re not alone. Indeed,...
Data loss or corruption Data has been deleted, overwritten, or otherwise corrupted by an accident, or from a security breach like a ransomware attack. Software bug A deployment of new or updated code introduces a bug that impacts availability or integrity, leaving the workload in a malfunctioning...
Availability — ensuring that data remains available and useful for its end-users, and that this access is not hindered by system malfunction, cyber attacks, or even security measures themselves. The CIA Triad defines three key principles of data security To achieve the CIA objectives organizations...