CHAPTER 1: INFORMATION SECURITY AND CYBER SECURITY
The terms ‘information security’ and ‘cyber security’ are often used interchangeably, when in fact they refer to different (albeit related) things.
Information security is concerned with ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability (C, I and A) of all information held by an organisation, irrespective of whether the information is electronic or in hard-copy format. As a result, information security generally involves considering physical and environmental controls alongside technological ones (lockable filing cabinets, key-code doors, etc.).
Cyber security is a subset of information security and is concerned with the same things, but where information security takes a generalist approach, ...
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