Information Security Flashcards
Topic 1A
CIA Triad
The Three principles of security control and management. Also known as the information security triad. Also referred to in reverse order as the AIC triad.
Confidentiality
The fundamental security goal of keeping information and communications private and protecting them from unauthorized access.
Integrity
The fundamental security goal of keeping organizational information accurate, free of errors, and without unauthorized modifications.
Availability
Means that information is accessible to those authorized to view or modify it.
Non-repudiation
The security goal of ensuring that the party that sent a transmission or created data remains associated with that data and cannot deny sending or creating that data.