Overview#

Information security (InfoSec), also referred to as Cybersecurity, is the degree of resistance to encountering an unfortunate event involving data

Information security is a general term that can be used regardless of the form the data may take (e.g. electronic, physical) or the Data State

Information security is Ldapwiki primary focus.

Information security's 's objective is to attempt to prevent Unfortunate events

Information security typically needs to provide:

• Authorization
• Authentication
• Confidentiality
• integrity
• non-Repudiation

For the various Data States

Application Layer Security and Transport Layer Security provide Information security for data In Transit

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Cybersecurity
• Encryption
• InfoSec
• Password-authenticated Key Exchange
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
• Risk Assessment
• Secure by design
• Security
• Unfortunate event

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• [#1] - Information_security - based on information obtained 2018-10-21-