Lesson 2

Information Security
DEFINITION:
The protection of information and its elements including
systems, hardware that use, store and transmit the
information
 PRIMARY GOALS
CIA triangle known as security triad tells the primary goals
of IS
Confidentiality : Making sure that those who should not
see information
Integrity : Making sure that the information has not been
changed from its original
Availability : Making sure that the information is
available for use when you need it
 Public DATA TYPES

 Private / Internal

 Confidential

 Secret
PUBLIC
Data is shown to all the end users
PRIVATE / INTERNAL
A group of company peoples only know, but outside
peoples should not know like Personal Identification
Number (PIN)
CONFIDENTIAL
Data is used by limited number of private
users, and should not be known to the majority
of workers
SECREAT
Data is known by the very high authority
persons only. Lose of this data may cause
critical damage to the company.
SECURITY TYPES
 Physical Security

 Personal Security

 Operations Security

 Communications Security

 Network Security

 Information Security
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PHYSICAL SECURITY
To protect Physical items, objects orareas
PERSONAL SECURITY
To protect the individual or group of
individuals who are authorized
OPERATION SECURITY
To protect the details of a particular operation
or activities
COMMUNICATION SECURITY
To protect communication media, technology
and content
NETWORK SECURITY
Toprotect networking components,
connections and contents
INFORMATION SECURITY
To protect information assets