Larry Westfall

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What Is Information Assurance (IA)?

This article defines information assurance from a military point of view, addressing the five pillars of information assurance: availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. Most of these tenets can be applied to any network – commercial or military.nnInformation Assurance (IA) consists of "measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and

January 25, 2005