Security+ SY0-601 Chapter 1

Confidentiality

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Confidentiality

Ensures that unauthorized individuals are not able to gain access to sensitive information.

Ensures that there are no unauthorized modifications to information or systems, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Ensures that information and systems are ready to meet the needs to legitimate users at the time those users request them.

Security Incidents

Occur when an organization experiences a breach of the confidentiality, integrity, and/or availability of information or information systems.

Is the exposure of sensitive information to unauthorized individuals, otherwise known as data loss.

Data Exfiltration

Attackers who gain access to sensitive information and remove it from the organization.

Is the unauthorized modification of information and is a violation of the principle of integrity.

Is the unintended disruption of an authorized user's legitimate access to information.

The risk of monetary damage to the organization as the result of a data breach.

Reputational Risk

Occurs when the negative publicity surrounding a security breach causes the loss of goodwill among customers, employees, suppliers, and other stakeholders.