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CIA Triad

Updated 31 Jul 2026

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  the three core goals that guide cybersecurity — confidentiality, integrity, and availability
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  often visualized as a triangle/pyramid with the three goals stacked together; sometimes referenced as the AIC Triad
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components
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significance
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  virtually every cybersecurity incident represents a failure of at least one side of the triad — sometimes two, sometimes all three
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  used later on to help calculate the impact of a given vulnerability
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related
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  Vulnerability
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  Threat
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  Risk
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cards
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  What are the 3 components of the CIA Triad, and what's its alternate name?
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    Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability — sometimes called the AIC Triad

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