CIA Triad

• Confidentiality
• integrity
• availability
• The CIA Triad is a fundamental model designed to guide
  • The CIA Triad is a fundamental model designed to guide policies for information security within an organization. The letters stand for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, and together they are considered the three most crucial components of security

Confidentiality

• The protection of sensitive information from being accessed or disclosed by unauthorized individuals

Access Control

• Measures such as passwords, biometrics and security tokens that restrict access to information to authorized users only

Encryption

• The process of converting information into a coded format to prevent unauthorized access. It can only be read by decryption key

Data Masking

• Hiding specific data within a database to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access

Least Privilege

• Granting users the minimum levels of access - or permissions to perform their job functions

Integrity

• The protection of data from unauthorized modification and destruction

Hashing

• A process that converts data into a fixed-size string of characters, which acts as a finger print, any changes to the data will change the hash value

Checksums