The principle to keep personal information private and to ensure that it is visible and accessible only to those individuals who own it.
The principle of integrity ensures that data is accurate and reliable and is not modified incorrectly, whether accidentally or maliciously.
The purpose of availability is to make the technology infrastructure, the applications and the data available when they are needed.
Information security (sometimes referred to as InfoSec) covers the tools and processes that organizations use to protect information. This includes policy settings that prevent unauthorized people from accessing business or personal information. InfoSec is a growing and evolving field that covers a wide range of fields, from network and infrastructure security to testing and auditing.
Information security protects sensitive information from unauthorized activities, including inspection, modification, recording, and any disruption or destruction. The goal is to ensure the safety and privacy of critical data such as customer account details, financial data or intellectual property.
The consequences of security incidents include theft of private information, data tampering, and data deletion. Attacks can disrupt work processes and damage a company’s reputation, and also have a tangible cost.
Information security differs from cybersecurity in both scope and purpose. The two terms are often used interchangeably, but more accurately, cybersecurity is a subcategory of information security. Information security is a broad field that covers many areas such as physical security, endpoint security, data encryption, and network security. It is also closely related to information assurance, which protects information from threats such as natural disasters and server failures.
Cybersecurity primarily addresses technology-related threats, with practices and tools that can prevent or mitigate them. Another related category is data security, which focuses on protecting an organization’s data from accidental or malicious exposure to unauthorized parties.
An Information Security Policy (ISP) is a set of rules that guide individuals when using IT assets. Companies can create information security policies to ensure that employees and other users follow security protocols and procedures. Security policies are intended to ensure that only authorized users can access sensitive systems and information.
Creating an effective security policy and taking steps to ensure compliance is an important step towards preventing and mitigating security threats. To make your policy truly effective, update it frequently based on company changes, new threats, conclusions drawn from previous breaches, and changes to security systems and tools.
Make your information security strategy practical and reasonable. To meet the needs and urgency of different departments within the organization, it is necessary to deploy a system of exceptions, with an approval process, enabling departments or individuals to deviate from the rules in specific circumstances.
The speed and technological development often leads to compromises in security measures.
Attackers can launch attacks directly via social media, and using information obtained from these sites to analyze user and organizational vulnerabilities.
Attackers manipulate users using psychological triggers like curiosity, urgency or fear.
Organizational users work with a large variety of endpoint devices, including privately owned devices and not under the organization’s control.
Encryption processes encode data so that it can only be decoded by users with secret keys.
Security misconfiguration due to negligence or human error can result in a security breach.
Helping organizations in designing and developing an effective Critical Data Protection Strategy & Framework which enables the protection of data assets while accommodating corporate requirements for information sharing, collaboration, distributed processing, and the mobile workforce.
Understanding and correctly categorizing information is critical to a successful data protection strategy & framework. ABL assists organizations in classifying, handling & disposing of organizational information by developing the required processes.
In a deeply interconnected world where business is a 24/7 operation, downtime impacts employee productivity, brand reputation and ultimately revenue. We assists organizations in developing the processes required to mitigate the impact of business interruptions and disasters, and to recover essential business functions within acceptable time frames
