Question

Are cyber security and information assurance different? Justify your answer with at least 3 sources.

Answer 1

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Every business must deal with practical problems and questions involving privacy, security, and overall confidence in the underlying features of the system. The process of addressing these general security questions determines the fundamental goals of establishing a risk free Online business, E-commerce infrastructure.Cyber security and Information assurance are the different tools used to protect the system security and privacy.

Cyber security is a practice used to protecting information and data from outside source of the internet. Information assurance is an another practice which focus on ensuring the availability, integrity, confidentiality, authentication, and non-repudiation of information. These both have to do protect information and data. These are two separate field and these have some similarities and some differences.

CYBER SECURITY Vs. INFORMATION ASSURANCE

Cyber Security:

Cyber security is a used to protect computer from unauthorized access or attacks. Hacktivists, Individual threat actor, State sponsored threat actors are the main 3 sources of cyber attacks. Preventing cyber attacks is the important function of cyber security. Another main function in cyber security is that of risk assessment and management. Training, education. personnel clearance and incident management....etc could all be addressed by cyber security. It mainly focus on preventing unauthorized access of information and data from outside source of the internet and also ensure the integrity of system.

Sources of cyber security

• Security lists: The Russian developer of secure content and threat management system, security lists is a heaving mass of info virus, hackers and spam,
• Threat level: PCMag's security section deals with a whole host of trending topics such as, malware, mobile threats..etc
• Google online security threats: The folks on google security team regularly covers pressing security and risk management topics.

Information Assurance:

Information assurance is an important component of data security as business practices. It ensure data protection both in transit and transit storage.

• Information assurance is more strategy focused.
• It specify the different ways to manage and protect critical information more effectively.
• It is broad based. It is related to risk assessment and management on an organizational level.
• cyber threats are just another threat group that needs to be considered within IA.
• The field of work has been not longer than cyber security. IA deals with protection of both digital and non digital information.
• In case of IA, it is not only stored the data in computer but also hard computer records.
• The five components of IA is Availability, Integrity, Authentication, Confidentiality, Non repudiation.