The terms information security, cybersecurity, and network security are nothing new. You might at least have a slight idea about what they mean, but don’t necessarily have a full grasp on the differences between them. One thing is for sure, though: they all secure business data. But does this mean that they are the same? Not quite. While all these security umbrellas protect information, each one serves a specific purpose. Not only are they instilled in security protocols and cultures, but they are all a part of overarching security practices and cloud computing. Above all, they are crucial to the safety of your organization.
Below we define what each one is, how they differ, and how all three are important to your business protection.
Information Security
Information Security (InfoSec), secures both physical and digital data. It works off the CIA triad, which stands for maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of IT systems and business information via the following:
- Confidentiality – enforced through encryption and ensures that unauthorized parties cannot access sensitive information.
- Integrity – upholds that data is accurate and trustworthy and ensures that sensitive information cannot be modified by unauthorized parties.
- Availability – ensures that authorized parties can access sensitive information at their leisure and update it when needed.
Information Security handles physical protection as well. It secures tangible items like paperwork from physical theft, unauthorized access, and natural disasters like fires and floods with locks, power supplies, and shredders. As a result, Information Security is the responsibility of every employee to uphold. It is important to educate personnel on best practices for information security and have well-known protocols in place for the handling of sensitive information.
Why it’s Important to Your Business:
Although we live in a digitized world, businesses will always need to secure tangible items like employee paperwork, social security numbers and company credit cards. Whether this looks like locking up files with confidential information or shredding credit cards, physical items need protection just as much as digital data. Information Security secures your business information, both physically and digitally.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is essentially a method of reinforcing Information Security. Cybersecurity works to ensure the proactive protection of your digital information, your network, and your company’s endpoints via various Security Solutions. Cybersecurity often utilizes cloud computing, or Security as a Service (SECaaS), to prevent malicious activity from entering your system. Through a cloud service provider, like Cyber Sainik, cybersecurity can protect business networks from all types of cyberattacks, like phishing, smishing, malware, malvertising, ransomware, deepfakes, and more.
Why it’s Important to Your Business:
According to Cybersecurity Ventures, a new ransomware attack occurs every 14 seconds, while a single cyberattack can cost an organization as much as $1.6 million, which makes cybersecurity solutions a must-have investment. 97% of cyberattacks could have been prevented and Cloud Security solutions guarantee 99.99% business protection. Not only is cybersecurity affordable, but Security as a Service solution are completely customizable for your business model.
Network Security
Finally, Network Security is a branch of cybersecurity. The two solutions are very similar and work simultaneously; but while cybersecurity is the overarching concept of protecting your business as a whole from cyber threat, Network Security specifically focuses on the Network and ensuring it is not compromised. Internal security practices like secure Wi-Fi, software updates, password protocols, and multi-factor authentication also fall under network security and are essential to a strong cybersecurity culture. Contact us for more information
