Elements of Information Security

Information security is a state of well-being of information and infrastructure in which the possibility of theft, tampering and disruption of information and services is kept low or tolerable.

The information security has the next elements:

  • Confidentiality: Assurance that the information is accessible only to those authorized to have access.
  • Integrity: The trustworthiness of data or resources in terms of preventing improper and unauthorized changes.
  • Availability: Assurance that the systems responsable for delivering, storing and processing information are accessible when required by the authorized users.
  • Authenticity: Authenticity refers to the characteristic of a communication, document or any data that ensures the quality of being genuine.
  • Non-repudiation: Guarantee that the sender of a message cannot later deny having sent the message and that the recipient cannot deny having received the message

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Elements of Information Security

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