Saturday, March 6, 2010

3 Traits in business today

Business whether profitable or no-profitable deals with 3 important traits known as CIA. i.e Confidentiality , Integrity, Availability.

The definition of these 3 might differ for all organizations as requirement differs however the core concept remains the same as Protection of Data from unauthorised use, modifications and making it available in a more transparent way to all the required members.

Lets take an example

Confidentiality might be very important for Govt Organizations as there data are accessed by limited sets of people at a certain level and might not be accessible to all or many people lower down the chain, hence it becomes evident to make the information be treated as Confidential.

Data classifies as confidential actually defines the sensitivity levels of the data means
How Sensitive the data is ?
More sensitive , less people to access and modify, hence more security is required.

Say for Govt Organization as Military, Data could be classified as

Top Secret -> Secret -> Sensitive -> Classified -> Unclassified.

The above could be an easy way to understand as to access the military documents high authority is required, So we can say .....

Confidentiality deals with accessing of information and has more of a READ value than WRITE value.

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