Title: 3.2 - Security Overview
Course: Introduction to Mission Critical > Section: Introduction to Mission Critical

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Security

Security in IT is whatever it takes to maintain a system’s confidentiality, integrity, availability, and accountability. This field covers all the ways that services and equipment are protected from unauthorized or unintentional access, change, or destruction. Not only illegal activity is prevented within the field of security, this also includes uneducated users accidentally deleting or changing data and even natural disasters. Security job titles include: IT Security Engineer, Security Officer, Information Security Manager, and Security Operations Center Operator.