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information assurance

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Measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. These measures include providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

acronym
IA
plural
information assurances
possessive
information assurance's
pluralpossessive
information assurances'

Framework definitions

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
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The measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, and confidentiality.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
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Measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. These measures include providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
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Measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. These measures include providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.
NIST SP 800-591 senseview framework →
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Measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. These measures include providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.

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