What You Should Know About Information Security
How often is it that you hear that the company's security system has been hit by a malware, if the answer is quite often then probably your company does not have a secure network. Today we live in an age where computers rule the day, be it a big multinational firm or a rather small one, computers and the internet are an indispensable part of business. All the big firms have a number of computers in the workplace that are connected to a common office network. An office computer has gained a very important place in the scheme of things.
So what is information security?
The process of assuring data security by avoiding any kind of unwanted or rather unauthorized access, modification, disruption or damage is shortly known as information security.
Financial institutions, corporate firms, private and non private organizations have a lot of highly confidential information regarding their clients, their financial reports, product etc. Therefore the security of information is of prime importance for these organizations. The era of storing all this information in bulky files is long gone, nowadays all the information amassed by the organization is processed and stored in computers and then transferred to the other computers connected to the same network. Now what will happen if all this confidential data falls into the hands of the competitors? This will mean sheer disaster for the organization concerned. That is why there must be a clearly delineated policy, training and awareness of the services involved, a managed program that includes security and quality insurance and such resources and systems for the governance of security in the organization.
In this article we will limit ourselves to the discussion of the conceptual basis of security of information technology in the computer.
The vehicle called Information security runs on three wheels which are integrity, availability and confidentiality. Integrity
In the field of Information security, integrity refers to the fact that data can neither be created, modified nor destroyed without proper authorization. The integrity of a database is very crucial in determining the proper functioning of the firm. A loss of integrity can take place when an online shopper reduces the price of the product he is buying with a malicious intent. A loss of integrity can also take place if due to any reason the system is not properly shutdown and that may lead to a huge loss of data. Availability
The concept of availability signifies that the huge amount of information that these superb computing systems use to access the database and the resources required for data security at all times. Confidentiality
This is one of the most important aspects of data security, whenever we apply for a loan or get into certain dealings with a firm we have to provide a lot of personal information to the firms. The personal information includes social security number, income, place of employment, medical history etc. when we provide these private information to the companies we expect them to remain confidential. If the information falls into the wrong hands i.e. people who are not authorized to view this information can amount to a breach of trust. A breach of confidentiality takes place when the information that is considered confidential is accessed, copied, deleted, modified by a person who is not authorized to view this information. Whenever the management wants to exterminate a certain risk that threatens the security of information of the firm there can be various ways of mitigating the risk factor like the administrative, logical, and physical processes. The hack proof data are also a plausible solution as these are resistant to external hackings. Information security training and management from a university or within the office setup itself leading to various types of information security certification is an essential part of any organization using IT and can not be ignored. Associates
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