Month: May 2007

Principles of Information Security

Information Security has three basic principles commonly referred to as the CIA Triad of Information Security (i.e. Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability). These principles include standards, conventions and mechanisms that form the basis for defining and implementing security controls and practices. In addition to the base principles (i.e. confidentiality, availability and integrity), there are the few …

IT Security V/S Information Security

IT Security and Information Security are the two different domains often misunderstood as one. Though both of them have some common areas that are to be dealt, but by large, IT Security is a subset of Information Security. IT Security deals with the technical set of controls and revolves more around the technological deployments across …