What Is the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) Triad?
The CIA triad is a well-known cybersecurity model. It helps an organization think through the various layers of security that are needed to protect the IT infrastructure.
Figure 1-1 depicts the CIA key concepts as follows:
Confidentiality—To ensure only authorized users and processes can read the data
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Integrity—To ensure only authorized users and processes can modify the data
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Availability—To ensure the data are readily available to authorized users and processes
FIGURE 1-1 The CIA Triad
The CIA triad is a very powerful model because it can be used to understand ...
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