While most people tend to think of the spy agency when it comes to the CIA, the CIA triad is actually well known amongst those who work with information systems. (Sometimes the triad is actually referenced as the AIC triad so as to avoid confusion with the Central Intelligence Agency) (Brook, 2015). The CIA triad focuses on the characteristics necessary to have secure information.
The first is confidentiality. Confidentiality at its most basic means that information is known only by those for whom it’s intended. When a company neglects confidentiality, a violation of trust ensues. Take for instance, the many companies (from Target to Home Depot) who have disclosed that customer information was stolen from their databases. While that customer …show more content…
In other words, it has not been modified in any way during transmission or storage. In today’s ever-increasingly-electronic world, information integrity on networks is key. Hackers for instance, could inject malicious code into a program regularly used by a company, shutting down the company and delaying any kind of productivity. Another example that could also be quite damaging to a company would have to do with finances. If a decimal place were moved, or even another 0 were tacked on at the end of an amount, not only would the company’s books be off, but it could prove difficult to reverse as well as trace why there was a deviation from the original amount. Yet another example could pertain directly to data stored in the company’s database. The issue could even be a simple misunderstanding such as an employee who decides to truncate at a certain point. While the difference may seem trivial, there is a difference nonetheless, and could result in differing measurements, estimates, etc. costing the company even more time and money. An easy way to keep the integrity of data intact is to use standard cryptographic hashes such as
The first is confidentiality. Confidentiality at its most basic means that information is known only by those for whom it’s intended. When a company neglects confidentiality, a violation of trust ensues. Take for instance, the many companies (from Target to Home Depot) who have disclosed that customer information was stolen from their databases. While that customer …show more content…
In other words, it has not been modified in any way during transmission or storage. In today’s ever-increasingly-electronic world, information integrity on networks is key. Hackers for instance, could inject malicious code into a program regularly used by a company, shutting down the company and delaying any kind of productivity. Another example that could also be quite damaging to a company would have to do with finances. If a decimal place were moved, or even another 0 were tacked on at the end of an amount, not only would the company’s books be off, but it could prove difficult to reverse as well as trace why there was a deviation from the original amount. Yet another example could pertain directly to data stored in the company’s database. The issue could even be a simple misunderstanding such as an employee who decides to truncate at a certain point. While the difference may seem trivial, there is a difference nonetheless, and could result in differing measurements, estimates, etc. costing the company even more time and money. An easy way to keep the integrity of data intact is to use standard cryptographic hashes such as