Information Assurance (IA) is the practice of assuring information and managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems and processes used for those purposes. Our Digital Assurance Services Unit consults, proffers, and deploys solutions to achieve protection of the integrity, availability, authenticity, repudiation and confidentiality of user data. We are technically skilled and diversified to use physical, technical, and administrative controls to accomplish these tasks.
While we focus predominantly on information in digital form, the full range of Information Assurance encompasses not only digital but also analog or physical form. These protections apply to data in transit, both physical and electronic forms as well as data at rest in various types of physical and electronic storage facilities. It also covers protection of physical assets such as properties and human lives.
Information assurance as a field has grown from the practice of information security to an encompassing function that covers the Management, Users Of Systems, IT Administrators, Relationship and Brand Managers etc.