What is an Information Security Assurance?
Information Security Assurance plays an important role in the infrastructure that support commerce, banking, telecommunications, health care, and security driving the need for qualified information assurance and security specialist.
Components of Information Security Assurance
Information Security Assurance has five components/principles. This are the following:
- Availability - it refers to how users are given to sensitive information within your enterprises infrastructure. Availability also takes into consideration it and how sensitive information will be accessed even if the information system fail partially or fully. For instance if the database failures occurs, ideally employees would still be able to access the information.
- Integrity - as a principle of information assurance, means that your sensitive data is not tampered with in any way. Integrity also relates to user controls designed to prevent any meddling with sensitive data. Privileged users need to understand users need to understand how to properly send information form one location to another without accidentally altering the data or situating the data in such a way that it is easier for hackers to access.
3.Confidentiality - a digital rendering of a cybersecurity breach represented by a red lock and binary numbers. Confidentiality is one of the principles of information assurance. It is preserved not only through access controls, but also data encryption methods. When data encryption is utilize, users without access to the information will just see nonsensical text. Only users with an encryption key or password of some kind, will be able to view the information as written.
- Authentication - means that there need to be controls in plane to ensure that users are they claim to be. Users must provide evidence of their identity before accessing any confidential information.
- Non Repudiation - is a word often used in legal contexts, but it can be applied to information assurance procedures, too. Non repudiation means that information is transferred, there needs to be proof that the action was successfully completed on both to senders and the receivers end.
