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Information Security Fundamentals

Understanding Information Security

Information Security focuses on protecting information regardless of its form—digital, paper, verbal, or physical. While cybersecurity concentrates on digital systems, information security covers all organizational information assets.

Tip
Every cybersecurity activity contributes to information security, but information security includes much more than cybersecurity.
Summary
Information security encompasses cybersecurity while extending protection to all organizational information.