Why are Security, Confidentiality and Control Important to an Online Magazine

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The most important features for business would be Confidentiality, Access Control, Integrity and Availability. The few selected, were chosen given that the nature of the business is an online magazine additionally they were chosen because a good designer should be able to derived the others. It also stated that the user will be required to choose a username and password so access control was mandatory.

Confidentiality

Confidentiality is essential to the online magazine because the same amount of consideration given towards the magazine must be given to the customer. From the customer’s point of view you do not want to subscribe to a business where someone else whether within the magazine or otherwise can access your private information. For instance : A customer has a friend working at the magazine suppose that friend (the employee) wanted to see what his friend (the customer) is subscribing to? Not every employee there should have the right to that information. In fact no one should unless it was necessary. Therefore the magazine’s policy should determine who has privileges to the information, which clearly shows how from confidentiality you can derive Access Control.

From the magazine’s point of view if unauthorized access of information is allowed, whether it is customer information or editorial content, the business will cease to make revenue because no one will be willing to risk subscribing knowing that their information will be collected and probably misused like their email being accessible and their inbox being spammed or In a case where the site itself is insecure and any hobbyist-level programmer can write

a script to grant himself and others access to the sites content without having to pay, again losses in reve...

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