Introduction to Security: Defending Against Attacks
Introduction to Security: Defending Against Attacks
Introduction:
Information security refers to all tasks that deal with guarding digital information with the aim of ensuring proper implementation of security measures. However, even when all security measures have been taken, it is hard to completely guarantee immunity from attacks or consider a system to be completely secure (Ciampa, 2010).
Information security can be considered as protection since its main goal is to create defenses that ward off security attacks and prevent collapse of the system in case an attack is successful. These defenses are intended to protect information that is of value ...