My First Lecture

Mr Mohd Zaki bin Mas’ud is my IT Security lecturer. My first lecture is about the introduction to information security. Mr Zaki had explained that security is the quality or state of being secure that is to be free from danger and to be protected from adversaries or from those who would do harm, intentionally. Besides that, he said that Information Security is the protection of information and the systems and hardware that use, store, and transmit that information. The security areas are detection, prevention, and recovery. Mr Zaki also explained some security architecture, security principles, security policy, security attacks/ threats. The security attacks have classified into 2 that are passive attacks and active attacks. Moreover, the methods of defense, controls are explained in the slides. Those are encryption controls, software controls, hardware controls, policy, physical controls and effectiveness controls. In the other hands, security services are include authentication, access control, data confidentiality, data integrity and non- repudiation. Mr Zaki said security services are very important so we need to remember these services. Mr Zaki also talks about the security mechanisms. Due to the technology era today, information security is made more importance implemented in most of organization. Studying information security is also importance due to the demand career in this area.