What is Information Security?

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Information security protects data from unauthorized access, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.

Confidentiality: Ensures that sensitive information is accessed only by authorized individuals (e.g., patient records).
Integrity: Maintains the accuracy and completeness of data (e.g., preventing unauthorized changes to financial records).
Availability: Ensures that information is accessible when needed (e.g., systems uptime for online banking).
Risk Management: Identifies and mitigates potential threats to information (e.g., implementing firewalls against cyber attacks).
Compliance: Adheres to regulations and standards (e.g., GDPR for personal data protection).

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Information security is not only about security information from unauthorized acess. INfoSEC is basically the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disrupton, modification, inspection, recording or desctruction of information. CIA triad explain.

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