Confidentiality
Ensuring only authorised people can see or access information.
Learn it through a story
- The Interview Question About "CIA" (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 10)
Related terms
- CIA triad Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, the three foundational goals of information security.
- CNAPP Cloud-native application protection platform, an umbrella term for continuous cloud security posture tooling.
- Collective risk When one person's unsafe habit can end up affecting a whole group or community.
- Consent A clear, specific agreement to a particular use of your data, not a vague blanket approval.
- Container escape A process breaking out of its container boundary to affect the underlying host.
- Containment Isolating an infected device to stop an attack from spreading further.