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Monday, July 20, 2009

What is Security?

Definition: Security is the quality or state of being secure that is to be free from danger and to be protected from adversaries – from those who would do harm, intentionally or otherwise.

Information Security: Information Security is the protection of information and the systems and hardware that use, store, and transmit that information. (By NSTISSC)



Information security:

Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction.

The terms information security, computer security and information assurance are frequently incorrectly used interchangeably. These fields are interrelated often and share the common goals of protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information; however, there are some subtle differences between them.

These differences lie primarily in the approach to the subject, the methodologies used, and the areas of concentration. Information security is concerned with the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data regardless of the form the data may take: electronic, print, or other forms.

Computer security can focus on ensuring the availability and correct operation of a computer system without concern for the information stored or processed by the computer.

1 comment:

  1. Its not only important but necessary to secure information on our computer. You have nicely cleared the meaning of security, computer security and information security in this post. But all these terms are interrelated but they do holds different meaning.
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