Five Characteristics Of Information Security

1. Introduction

2. Information

[“Information” includes data, message, text, images, sound, voice, codes, computer programs, software and data base or micro film or computer generated micro fiche.]

3. Lifecycle of Information

4. Five characteristics of high quality information

Five characteristics of high quality information are accuracy, completeness, consistency, uniqueness, and timeliness. Information needs to be of high quality to be useful and accurate. The information that is input into a data base is presumed to be perfect as well as accurate. The information that is accessed is deemed reliable. Flaws do arise with database design but do not let something in your control, accurate and reliable data, be one of them. A database

New and current data is more valuable to organizations than old outdated information. Especially now, in this era of high technological advances, out-of-date information can keep a company from achieving their goals or from surviving in a competitive arena. The information does not necessarily need to be out of date to have effect, it just needs to not be the most current. Real-time information is an element of timeliness.

5. Information Security

Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. The terms information security, computer security and information assurance are frequently used interchangeably. These fields are interrelated and share the common goals of protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. However, there are some subtle differences between them. These differences lie primarily in the approach to the subject, the methodologies used, and the areas of concentration. Information security is concerned with the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data regardless of the form the data may take: electronic, print, or other forms.

6. Information lifecycle in Aadhaar card

Together they prescribe procedures for the collection, transfer, maintenance, and sharing of personal information under Aadhaar.

Aadhaar salient

In addition, the UIDAI is responsible for guaranteeing the security of individuals’ Aadhaar data, including authentication records.

The UIDAI take measures to ensure data confidentiality and security. These include implementing technical and organizational security measures and entities act only on the instruction of the UIDAI.

The 2011 Standing Committee report noted that the Aadhaar project allowed the UIDAI to create a large database of personal information, creating the possibility of information misuse. Given this concern, the Committee advocated the enactment of a national data protection law as a prerequisite to any legislation allowing large-scale collection of personal information and linkage across databases. The committee noted that the absence of data protection legislation would make it difficult to deal with issues such as “access and misuse of personal information, surveillance, profiling, linking and matching of databases, and securing confidentiality of information.” Meanwhile, no data protection legislation has been passed by