CIA Triad

The CIA Triad is a information security that is known across the whole Cybersecurity world. This acronym which stands for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability is one of the most important steps in a security model and to any cybersecurity operation under a company and each component is special and integral to making sure you’re safe. Starting off with confidentiality, this is the process of making sure who you want to access and see the data is able to do that and no one else. This can happen with a multitude of different ways with encryption keys, passwords, biometrics, and other various methods of protecting the information. Next is integrity, closely related to confidentiality, but this process is making sure that no one has access to the networks and databases to access information. This also goes along with how secure your network and other PII. Last but not least is availability, this is essentially just making sure the data and information that you need is there and available for use. All these components together make up the CIA Triad, and it leads to better security for all cyber operations. For confidentiality there is two big main factors which are Authentication and Authorization. The first Authentication, is very important and makes sure who is signing in is who it is supposed to be, essentially this process is authenticating who can see and access the data and making sure only authorized personnel can see, using passwords, encryption keys, and biometrics.  Authorization the other important A in confidentiality, this is limiting access to the information and making sure who is logging in is actually who it is regardless of the password in cased it was compromised. This gives access to only certain people usually with 2 factor authentication.

Sources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mn3icTLG5X3W7tJjuDaohW8OscHdLOQI/view

https://www.okta.com/identity-101/authentication-vs-authorization/
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2badv-communication/1.0.1?topic=securing-securityoverview

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