Anything that can be seen or heard can be digitized, so databases can include music, motion pictures, or photographs of artworks. Some databases consist primarily of images, however, others can be mixed media.
Digital information is the information that is in a digital or an electronic form and is stored, manipulated, and displayed by computational tools. If you want to protect your personal data from being tracked, CryptoMize is here to help you.
Digital information objects can be copied infinitely many times, often without losing any fidelity or quality.
Digital information can be shared more easily than any type of analog information in the past.
A variety of different types of information can be represented digitally: images, movies, text, sound and even to control movement.
Interdiction of digital information is much more difficult than interdiction of a physical object carrying information.
Information Security is the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, alteration, inspection, recording, or destruction of information. As a result, Information Security encompasses a wide range of academic topics, including cryptography, mobile computing, cyber forensics, and online social media, among others.
Information Security programs are built around certain objectives:
means information is not disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities, and processes. Confidentiality means that your data is safe.
means maintaining accuracy and completeness of data ensuring that that data remains intact. Integrity is at the core of everything we do.
Availability puts everything you need right where you need it – mobile and online. With the right information, you can make quick decisions.
means one party cannot deny receiving a message or a transaction nor can the other party deny sending a message or a transaction.
means verifying that users are who they say they are and that each input arriving at the destination is from a trusted source.
means that it should be possible to trace actions of an entity uniquely to that entity ensuring traceability.
There are many reasons why a business should do everything possible to prevent data breaches. But unfortunately, many businesses fail to do anything to protect their sensitive data, perhaps because they are unaware of the consequences of a breach.
The more sensitive the information, the bigger impact the breach will have on your company’s reputation. The company can lose loyal customers forever.
Recovering from a data breach is incredibly expensive. According to a study, businesses should expect to pay around $221 per compromised record.
A data breach can affect the total value of the company. A business’s value can drop if it is discovered that the business’s data is not being protected properly.
If confidential information is leaked to the public or directly given to a competitor in the industry, it could affect the business’s ability to compete.
Companies have realized the need and importance of information security and taken steps to be included among organizations known to have the most secure IT infrastructure. Information security is critical to the success of any organization, for the following reasons.
Due to a large amount of data stored on company servers, businesses often become the main target of cyber-criminals if the network is unprotected. The breaches involving business secrets, confidential health information, and intellectual property can greatly impact the overall health of a business.
Data breaches and other cyber attacks are usually a result of lax authentication, weak passwords, and poor certificate or key management. Companies often struggle with assigning permissions to appropriate users, resulting in identity theft.
Companies relying on cloud services are especially at risk because they are an easy target for cybercriminals, who can eavesdrop on activities, modify data and manipulate transactions. These third-party applications can be used by attackers to launch other attacks as well.
It is a collection of a variety of processes, technologies or methods for protecting web servers, web applications and web services such as APIs from attack by Internet-based threats.
Identity Management security is an essential part of overall IT security that manages digital identities and user access to data, systems, and resources within an organization.
Web security testing aims to find security vulnerabilities in Web applications and their configuration. The primary target is the application layer (i.e., what is running on the HTTP protocol). Testing the security of a Web application often involves sending different types of input to provoke errors and make the system behave in unexpected ways. These so-called “negative tests” examine whether the system is doing something it isn’t designed to do.
It is important to understand that Web security testing is not only about testing the security features (e.g. authentication and authorization) that may be implemented in the application. It is equally important to test that other features are implemented in a secure way (e.g., business logic and the use of proper input validation and output encoding). The goal is to ensure that the functions exposed in the Web application are secure.
Identity management ensures that authorized people have access to the technology resources they need to perform their job functions. It includes policies and technologies that encompass an organization-wide process to properly identify, authenticate, and authorize people, groups of people, or software applications through attributes including user access rights and restrictions based on their identities.
An identity management system prevents unauthorized access to systems and resources, helps prevent exfiltration of enterprise or protected data, and raises alerts and alarms when access attempts are made by unauthorized personnel or programs, whether from inside or outside the enterprise perimeter.
IAM can prevent the dissemination of compromised login credentials, prevent unauthorized access to a company's network as well as protect against hacking, ransomware, phishing and other types of cyberattacks.
SSO technology limits the number of interactions they have with security systems and increases the probability that they will succeed in their legitimate attempts to access resources.
By restricting access for those who don't need to use certain apps or files, organizations can better secure sensitive data as well as enable project managers to have a clearer picture of which users are associated with which projects.
A growing number of breaches is caused by insiders. IAM can limit the damage caused by malicious insiders, by ensuring users only have access to the systems they work with, and cannot escalate privileges without supervision.
It utilizes advanced ways to trawl through the enormous haystack of visible data to discover the needles they're looking for—and uncover information that many aren't aware is public.
Identity spoofing happens when a fraudster adopts another's identity and commits fraud. It seeks to “change” the sender's identity resulting in business email compromise and identity theft.
Credentials must be created and revoked when consumers change roles and company procedures and policies develop. Credential Management is important to protecting your systems and data.
Security Analysts gather, assess, and analyse cyber threat intelligence. Analysts must contrast massive amounts of data to create reliable, timely, and relevant intelligence by helping reduce uncertainty.
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