Question

Identify three major laws and how they relate to Information security describe them in detail

Answer 1

The fundamental principles (tenets) of information security are confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

1.Confidentiality measures are designed to protect against unauthorized disclosure of information. The objective of the confidentiality principle is to ensure that private information remains private and that it can only be viewed or accessed by individuals who need that information in order to complete their job duties.

2 Integrity involves protection from unauthorized modifications (e.g., add, delete, or change) of data. The principle of integrity is designed to ensure that data can be trusted to be accurate and that it has not been inappropriately modified.  

3.Availability is protecting the functionality of support systems and ensuring data is fully available at the point in time (or period requirements) when it is needed by its users. The objective of availability is to ensure that data is available to be used when it is needed to make decisions.

Effectively executing all three tenets of the Security Triad creates an ideal outcome from an information security perspective.