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In today’s complex tech-driven world, security has assumed utmost importance. Cyber security and information security are typically used as synonyms in security terminology, creating a lot of misunderstanding among security professionals. So, here we would like to clear the misconception between cyber security and information security.
Information security is all about protecting the information, which generally focuses on the confidentiality, availability and integrity. Cybersecurity professionals provide safety for networks, servers, intranets and computer systems, while ensuring that only authorized people have access to that information. On the contrary, Information security is all about shielding information and information systems from unlawful use, evaluation, change or deletion.
Information Security
Information security is “the protection of both physical and digital information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is “the protection of only digital information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Cybersecurity is considered as subset of Information security.
The Main Difference Between:
Information Security
- 1.Protection of employees and technologies.
- Information Security deals with protection of data from any form of threat.
- (INFOSEC CONTROLS) Physical security controls, fences, barriers, guards including digital security controls.
- (INFOSEC ACTIVITIES) Disaster handling, risk management, business continuity, and others.
- (CERTIFICATION) CISSP, CISM, and others
Cybersecurity
- 1.Protection of technologies.
- Cybersecurity strives against Cybercrimes, Cyber frauds, and Law enforcement.
- (CYBERSEC CONTROLS) Digital security controls, firewall, IDS, IPS and others.
- (CYBERSEC ACTIVITIES) Incident handling, forensic investigation, threat intelligence, and others.
- (CERTIFICATION) CEH, OSCP, and others.
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