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Integrity First … Then Availability … Then Confidentiality

October 29, 2012 – 6:00 am – “Whatever happens, the system’s integrity must be restored.” This quotation appeared in an August 10, 2012 article “Knight Capital trading disaster portends frightening future for markets” by Diane Francis available at …
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Is Infosec Self-Isolating?

October 1, 2012 – 6:00 am – … and , if so, what are the consequences? My July 23, 2012 column, “It’s About Availability and Integrity (not so much Confidentiality)” caused something of a stir when I claimed that availability is often more important than confidentiality, as illustrated by the case of the Ulster…
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It’s About Availability and Integrity (not so much Confidentiality)

July 23, 2012 – 6:00 am – I have frequently contended that the more important aspects of security are availability and integrity, not confidentiality (the old C-I-A triad should be A-I-C in order of importance). That is not to say that confidentiality and privacy aren’t extremely important—they certainly are. But in…
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