From the course: ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) (2024) Cert Prep

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- [Instructor] As a security professional, you must also understand how to apply security controls that protect the availability of information and systems. As the third leg of the CIA triad, availability controls ensure that information and systems remain available to authorized users when needed. They protect against disruptions to normal system operation or data availability. Potential availability failures may result from malicious attackers, such as those conducting a denial of service attack to bring down a website, from component failures, such as the failure of a hard drive or power supply, from application failures, such as errors in code that cause a crash, or from utility failures, such as a power outage that disrupts a system or a network disruption that prevents internet access. There are many different controls that protect the availability of systems and information. One example of an availability control…

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