Security Goals and their influence on Physical, Human and Cyber targets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Security Goals and their influence on Physical, Human and Cyber targets

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Security goals entail determining how the safekeeping services will be offered to ensure that the physical, human, or cyber assets are adequately protected from misuse. Security goals are pegged on the three essential principles of confidentiality, availability as well as integrity. The goals must be relevant to security needs and be fully implemented since the risk assessment is based on the outlined security goals. They must be SMART that is realistic, time-bound, measurable, and attainable (Rowe et al., 2016). Security goals are produced after a harm analysis has been conducted. These goals are often considered as a security property in a given company or organization. They outline what the security system is supposed to prevent rather than how to facilitate prevention. For example, a security goal cannot be designed in the form that fails to explain what assets need prevention from any attacks.

The mentioned security goals, bound by the criteria of availability, confidentiality, and integrity, guides the security policies information within an organization. Human assets’ protection involves many individuals who come together because of working conditions, living situations, or social events. The confidentiality aspect entails ensuring that information is accessed by authorized individuals and prevented from other people who are bound from receiving it. An example of social protection asset is defending a congregation in a workplace from insecurities by organizing frequent checkups (Rowe et al., 2016).

Physical infrastructure includes manufacturing, transportation, and storage devices on national or regional levels. The physical asset’s main security goal is integrity, where the maintenance of an individual’s data is accurate, consistent, and trustworthy across the existent period (Rowe et al., 2016). An example of the physical asset is the digital signatures, including QR codes or fingerprints to access some data. Finally, cyber targets involve applying information networks to transfer large amounts of data to coordinate people’s daily lives, businesses, and industries. The cyber assets deal with the availability criterion where there is the maintenance of individuals’ hardware and resources. As a result, all the hardware carries functional importance to the organizational resources. Fault tolerance displays a better example of the cyber asset where the system is constructed in a manner that works correctly, even if some of its components fail.

Conclusively, integrity, availability, and accountability are the primary security goals that aim to protect a company’s human physical and cyberinfrastructure (Rowe et al., 2016).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Rowe, P. D., Guttman, J. D., & Liskov, M. D. (2016). Measuring protocol strength with security goals. International Journal of Information Security, 15(6), 575-596. Retrieved from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10207-016-0319-z