“CIA”: Understand the cybersecurity triad in 5 minutes or less paid ExtraHop
In the world of information security, “CIA” stands for the triad of values that security analysts, CISOs, and everyone in between are responsible for upholding: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.Understanding each leg of the cybersecurity triad is the first step towards building out a deep, intentional security posture that will help see you and your business through the rising tide of cybercrime.Put most simply, you don’t want people to see or access your stuff.
How? Well-documented permissions, for one—but this is also one place encryption has become increasingly important. Is your data encrypted while at rest? What about on the wire, as it moves from place to place?In the cybersecurity world, upholding the integrity leg of the CIA triad means protecting your information from being modified by unauthorized parties.
Here, again, cryptography is crucial. This leg of the triad is one reason for last year’s TLS 1.3 encryption standard, which has led to an increase in advanced encryption for data in flight. Of course, implementing advanced encryption without a plan in place for how it’ll affect your own ability to detect and investigate issues or threats is already causing problems for many enterprises.on how to approach the adoption of TLS 1.3.
If you’ve gone the route of advanced encryption in order to support the first two legs of the CIA triad, you’ll run into problems here unless you’ve invested in a way to see into, and take action because of, encrypted traffic. Luckily, we’re all on the same ship, sailing in the same direction, so vendors are developing ever more powerful methods of network traffic analysis and decryption.
There you have it: the cybersecurity triad in five minutes or less. By building your organization’s security practice on these three foundational values, with the help of security control frameworks like CIS and NIST, you’ll be well on your way towards mitigating the security trials and tribulations of digital business.Matt Cauthorn is the VP of Security at ExtraHop. He's responsible for all security implementations, and leads a team of technical security engineers who work directly wi...
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