The AIC Triad

The AIC Triad is an acronym that stands for Availability, Integrity, and Confidentiality; these are the three core principles when dealing with IT security. Availability is based on the concept of when a person wants the information that person able to have it and does not have to wait too long or the information is not destroyed. Integrity involves only who can edit the valuable information. Confidentiality is mainly the restrictions set upon who can actually see the information as well as who is allowed to modify or delete that information as well. Even though each of these principles are valuable to IT security, the most important one of them all is Confidentiality because there has to be a set limit to how much information a person is able to see when he/she is logged into a secure system. Confidentiality limits how much access a person has to certain information. For example, a janitor would not have as much access to the secret information of a company as say the IT specialist of that company. The most accurate way to ensure that the data has not been compromised is to set restrictions on every person that is hired into the business and only allow people to have access to the information that will
According to article 1 Information Security and the CIA Triad by Mase Consulting, it states “sensitivity implies confidentiality” this means any sensitive or private data need to be secured with the principle of confidentiality. The article “The CIA Triad by Chad Perrin” speaks about how to protect the confidentiality of your information by stating, “Protecting confidentiality hinges upon defining and enforcing appropriate access levels for information”. In short if you do not make an effort to secure your information by setting restriction levels on your information then al your private data is up for