From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 1 Security and Risk Management

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- [Instructor] As a security professional, you must also understand how to apply security controls that protect the availability of information and systems. As the third leg of the CIA triad, availability controls ensure that information and systems remain available to authorized users when needed. These controls protect against disruptions to normal system operation or data availability. Now availability failures may result from a variety of causes. They could result from malicious attackers, such as those conducting a denial of service attack to bring down a website. They can also result from component failures, such as the failure of a hard drive or a power supply. Availability issues may also arise as the result of application failures, such as errors in code that cause a crash or from utility failures, such as a power outage that disrupts systems or a network disruption that prevents internet access. There are many…

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