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- [Instructor] With so many news stories about data breaches you might be inclined to think that those breaches could have been prevented with stronger confidentiality and integrity controls. And you'd be right, but you'd be overlooking the third control in the CIA triad, availability. Yes, it's important to keep the secrets secret. And yes, it's important to make sure you can trust the application is securely handling and protecting your data. But you also need to ensure that the application meets your availability requirements. A disruption in any of these three areas would have a negative impact on your company and your users. Availability controls are designed to make sure your app is there when your users expect it to be there. If you've ever worked in retail, you know that your E-commerce apps had better have high availability during the holiday shopping season. Every minute those apps are offline could mean…

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