The main objective of cybersecurity is to ensure data protection. Cybersecurity offers three related principles to protect data from breaches; the principle is called the CIA triad. CIA can be broken into three parts,

• Confidentiality: It gives access to only authorized users, unauthorized users will be blocked. An example of this is Data encryption.
  
  
• Integrity: This principle makes sure that the data is authentic, accurate, and safeguarded from unauthorized modification or accidental user modification.
  
  
• Availability: Information will be made available only to authorized users. It ensures that malfunctions and cyberattacks are blocked to secure the system.
  
  

Why is the CIA Triad Important?

The CIA triad is an important security concept because the majority of security controls, mechanisms and safeguards are designed to ensure one or more of confidentiality, integrity or availability principles.

This means cyber threats, vulnerabilities and cyber-attacks can be measured against their ability to compromise one or more of the CIA triad principles.

The triad forms the basis of any organization’s information security program and any time there is a data leak, data breach or other security incident you can be certain one or more of these principles has been violated.