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What is the opposite of confidentiality?
Disclosure
What is the opposite of Integrity?
Alteration
What is the opposite of availability?
Destruction or Denial
What is the CIA Triad?
The three main objectives of security, confidentiality, integrity and availability
What is the DAD Triad?
The risks we are trying to reduce; disclosure, alteration, destruction or denial
What is probably the focus of an intelligence agency?
Confidentiality
What is probably the focus of a bank?
Integrity
What is probably the focus of an e-business?
Availability
What does confidentiality mean?
Preserving authorized restrictions on access and disclosure, including means for protecting personal privacy and proprietary information
What does integrity mean?
Guarding against improper modificiation or destruction and inclucdes ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity
What does availability mean?
ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information
What is identification?
means by which users claim their identities to a system
What is the most common use of identification?
access, also necessary for authentication and authorization
What is authentication?
establishes, tests or reconciles a user’s identity
What is accountability?
The system’s ability to determine the actions and behavior of a single individual within a system. A user performed this action.
What tools support accountability?
Audit trails and logs
What is authorization?
the rights and permissions granted to an individual or process that enable access to a computer
What does integrity ensure?
Data has not been intentionally or unintentionally changed
What are tools for integrity?
message hashes, checksums, change control, and auditing
What do well-formed transactions support?
Integrity - ensures data is only changed by a specific set of instructions
