Management-Assurance-Security
Study Sheet
CIS341 – Spring 2004
Answer these questions, using the Answer bank below, based on the M-A-S posting.
Then check your answers here.
Basic Terms
♦ the personnel, hardware
and software which comprise a recognizable unit of a business or other human
institution.
Other
What are the three
phases of the information life cycle?
♦
♦
♦
Why is the management
of information during World War II a good model to show the importance of
well-managed information?
♦ There we see intense _____ designed for each phase of that life cycle as
well _____ efforts of attack, corruption and _____.
♦ There we also see the overwhelming importance of well managed
information – a setting in which _____ was literally a life and death matter.
What is the goal of
information management/assurance/security?
♦
Comments on the MAS
triad:
♦ Ultimately, _____ is at the heart of the management/assurance/security
triad.
♦ The goal of information management is to assure that the information
is _____.
♦ In the broadest sense, _____ is the goal, _____ is the means of
implementing this goal, and _____ is a critical subtask.
What are the three
means of information genesis?
♦
♦
♦
What are the four
aspects of information existence?
♦
♦
♦
♦
What are the five data
line protection tasks? Protect against .
. .
♦
♦
♦
♦
♦
Answer
Bank
Genesis
Existence
Dissolution
protective
measures
intense
and protracted
disinformation
good
information management
Design a system to manage safely and securely
information during its entire life
cycle,
assuring that the information is accurate, reliable and uncorrupted.
Information management system
information
assurance
reliable
and available
assurance
management
security
active
reception
passive
reception
creation
maintenance
ownership
storage
access
disruption of transfer
process
corruption of
data during reception
alteration of
data during reception
loss of data during
transfer
theft of
data during transfer