Today’s video discusses information security, explained in 5 minutes! Information security, oftentimes abbreviated as infosec, is a set of practices to secure and protect data unauthorized access by cutting down on information risks. Infosec involves preventing or reducing the probability of unlawful use, disclosure, corruption, modification, deletion or recording of information. Information Security is built around the 3-objective triad, commonly known as CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability.

Great Learning brings you this video on “What is Information Security? Explained in 5 minutes!” In these 5 minutes, we aim to give a concise and brief understanding of information security and how it works. This video starts with an introduction to infosec, followed by understanding its need. Then we look at the CIA triad - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability. Finally, we look at information security policies!

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:24 What is Information Security?
• 1:38 Why is Information Security important?
• 3:08 The CIA Triad
• 4:43 Information Security Policies

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