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Information Security (Subject) / 01 Intro (Lesson)

01 Intro

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  • Security protection vs intentional malice
  • Safety protection vs accidental threats
  • Privacy data security (protect information systems) and data protection (protect personal data)
  • Asset anything with value to the company
  • Event observable occurrence on a system or network
  • Threat possible event that might lead to a violation of security goals Masquerade, eavesdropping, authorization violation, data loss or modification, repudiation, forgery of information, sabotage
  • Security Goals Confidentiality, (Data-)Integrity, Availability Additional: Accountability, controlled access
  • Vulnerability weakness that could be exploited
  • Risk the potential that a given threat will exploit vulnerabilities of an asset
  • Control a safeguard that addresses a threat
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  • Security Service abstract service that ensures Authentication, Integrity, Confidentiality, Access Control, Non-repudiation
  • Kerckhoff’s principle and advantages cryptographic algorithms must be public, security depends only on secrecy of the keys Advantages: public exposure helps to identify flaws, change of keys is easier than change of algorithms
  • Threat trees nodes (threat), subtree (detailed threat), child nodes (complete refinement of threat), connector (or, and)
  • Resilience maintain service in the presence of attacks