The CIA Triad in Cloud Security: 2025 Professional Guide for Students and Cybersecurity Practitioners
The concepts of CIA Triad, i.e., confidentiality, integrity, and availability, are introduced to all cyber security students prior to their first encounter with actual networks, systems and data. You remember the CIA Triad for an exam. You write it on flashcards. Since every CC, CISSP and CISM notes stresses its importance, you find yourself repeating “confidentiality integrity availability” over and over again. But the CIA Triad is not a lesson. It is a battlefield. It is what keeps cloud environments alive.







