https://www.compilemymind.com/tags/security-controls/ Recent content in Security-Controls on Compile My Mind Hugo en Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:58:41 +0300 https://www.compilemymind.com/posts/cia-triad-explained/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:58:41 +0300 https://www.compilemymind.com/posts/cia-triad-explained/ <p>The customer database is encrypted. Access requires a password and a second factor. The security team can point to both controls and say, correctly, that sensitive records are harder to steal.</p> <p>Then someone changes the bank account number on a supplier payment. On another morning, the application is unavailable when the finance team needs to stop that payment.</p> <p>Nothing in the word <em>encrypted</em> answers either problem.</p> <p>That gap is why information security needs more than one goal. The <strong>CIA triad</strong> divides the job into three outcomes: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. A secure system must keep information away from unauthorized people, protect it from unauthorized change or destruction, and make it usable by authorized people when they need it.</p>