A company's e-commerce server, which processes all customer orders, has crashed and is now offline. This outage prevents any customers from making purchases. This situation represents a failure of which core principle of the CIA security triad?
Integrity
Availability
Non-repudiation
Confidentiality
The correct answer is Availability. The CIA triad consists of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Availability ensures that systems and data are accessible to authorized users when needed. Since the e-commerce server has crashed and customers cannot access it to make purchases, this is a direct failure of availability. Confidentiality is about preventing unauthorized disclosure of data, and Integrity is about ensuring data is accurate and trustworthy; neither is the primary principle affected by the server being offline.
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