Need Of Information Security In Today's World

- Sriram Naganathan

 

Information security is an asset to all individuals and businesses, is a set of strategies for managing the processes, tools and policies necessary to prevent, detect, document and counter threats to digital and non-digital information. Balanced protection of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data are the essential pillars of Information Security. In the age of the Internet, protecting information has become just as important as protecting one’s property. Every day we take steps to protect the things that are important to us. We set the alarm systems on our homes, put our valuables in safes, and lock our cars. The reasons we do these things are simple - we don't want people, whom we don't know or trust, to get hold of our valuables, and also we don't want those valuables to come to any harm. Only some members of the family, yourself included, have the code to the alarm, the combination to the safe, and the keys to the car. This is just an example of one kind of security that we practice in everyday life.