Online Training and Development in Information Security
Integrated Security
Integrated Security
The responsibility for securing an organisation’s information assets is not confined to the IT department: the entire organisation needs to support the principles of:

  • Confidentiality – protecting information from unauthorised access;
  • Integrity – preventing data from being corrupted;
  • Availability – ensuring that authorised users have access to information in a reliable and timely manner;
  • Accountability – maintaining systems for tracing actions to their source when information has been compromised.
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The need for Policies and training in Information Security
Vigilant Staff
Vigilant Staff
Sound policies and training programmes in Information Security have never been more important, given a number of key trends:

  • The proliferation of data storage options in which vast quantities of valuable and often sensitive data can travel as e-mail attachments or transferred to portable devices;
  • The outsourcing of functional activities to third parties who are given access to data concerning customers, staff and commercially sensitive projects;
  • The increased popularity of social networking sites on the Internet where personal data can be exploited by the online criminal;
  • The rise and growing sophistication of organised online crime that is finding more ingenious ways to access systems and steal data for financial gain.
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