ABC University is a public university; especially known for its Faculty of Commerce and Management in the country. The faculty offers various UG and PG programmes along with research programmes viz., M. Phil and Ph.D. Re

CS Professional · Information Technology and Systems Audit · PYQS · December 2016
ABC University is a public university; especially known for its Faculty of Commerce and Management in the country. The faculty offers various UG and PG programmes along with research programmes viz., M. Phil and Ph.D. Recently, the Academic Council of the university approved the proposal of the faculty to start some UG and PG programmes in distance learning mode too. It is observed that the students of distance education are normally dependent on self-study along with a little support from the department(s) concerned. In view of this aforementioned fact, the Dean concerned of the faculty decided to launch a web based knowledge portal to facilitate the students of different courses and he proposed to upload the study materials, e-lectures, suggested answers of last examinations, mock test papers relevant for the coming examinations, etc. of the approved courses on this knowledge portal. It is expected that the portal will be very useful for the students as it aims to provide the access of various academic resources on anytime anywhere basis. For the implementation of this project, a technical consultant was appointed by the university. Accordingly, an initial feasibility study was done to know whether system should be developed in-house or bought as a ready made package and a detailed report was submitted. As a next step, as per the recommendations of the consultant, an expression of interest was published by the university in various national and regional newspapers inviting various organisations to showcase their capabilities and suggest a good solution as per the requirements of the concerned faculty of the university. Based on the above, answer the following - What are three major attributes of information security? Out of these attributes, which attribute will be having the highest priority while developing web based knowledge portal? Explain with reasons.

Answer & Explanation:

Three major attributes of Information Security are as follows: Confidentiality: It refers to the prevention of unauthorized disclosure of information. Integrity: It refers to the prevention of unauthorized modification of information. Availability: It refers to the prevention of unauthorized withholding of information or it refers to ensuring that authorized parties are able to access the information whenever required as per required format. Accuracy: The data is free from any errors or mistakes. Authenticity: Information should be reproduced and be identifiable as genuine and original not copy. The proposed knowledge portal aims to provide the access of various academic resources on anytime anywhere basis. Hence, out of these aforementioned attributes, the third attribute namely, availability will be having the highest priority while developing web based knowledge portal because e-content hosted on the proposed Knowledge Portal should be uninterruptedly available to the authorized users.

Topics: Information Security

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