CIA Triad

The CIA Triad stands for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. The triad has nothing to do with the United States Central Intelligence Agency, but rather the main principles in which they live and work by. The Triad was formally established by 1998, however it was not created by one person alone. Because of this people have…

Protecting Availability

As a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) some protections that I would implement to ensure availability of my systems would include asset inventory. The most important role of a CISO is to protect its company’s OT (operational technology) systems, and to begin doing so one would need to explore, discover, as well as inventory every…

SCADA Systems

A SCADA System (supervisory control and data acquisition) is most often referred to as ICS (industrial control systems) which are used to process water treatment, wastewater treatment, gas pipelines, wind farms, and those of the such. SCADA Systems are also used to control airports, space stations, and ships which are most often referred to as…