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Security and Privacy of Information Technology Management Systems

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Information security is usually defined as a feature of information systems management which involves three main aspects, named confidentiality, integrity, and availability (Lov om behandling 2000; ISO/IEC 27002:2005 2005; ISO/IEC 27000:2009 2009). Usually, quality is included as a fourth aspect of information security, although it can be considered as overlapping with integrity. The following is a brief definition of these items: (a) Confidentiality is the guarantee that information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized persons, entities, or processes; (b) integrity relates to the trustworthiness of the information, thus assuring that data has not been deliberately tampered with, nor accidentally changed; (c) availability means that information is accessible and can be utilized upon demand by an authorized entity; and (d) quality refers to the information being correct and not misleading. Among the aforementioned aspects,...

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  1. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

    Javier Osorio & Julia Nieves

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Osorio, J., Nieves, J. (2019). Security and Privacy of Information Technology Management Systems. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_122-1

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