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Lester Nichols
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Lester Nichols

Lester E. Nichols III currently resides in North Texas and is the Director Security Architecture/VP Cybersecurity Operations at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Previous experience includes the Director of IT Infrastructure and Security for a development company, SOC oversight manager/Senior Infrastructure Officer within DHS and previous experience in Local/Federal/DoD/financial sectors. Lester has post graduate education with a Master's of Science Degree in Information Assurance from Norwich University, the oldest private military school in the United States, and multiple industry certifications including CISSP and SANS certs, as well as others. Lester is also a contributing author to the Computer Security Handbook 5th-6th Editions by Wiley Press.
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Confidentiality/integrity/availability

I happen to prefer CISA’s definition of cybersecurity, because it is concise and encompasses most other definitions, including my little nutshell. I also like the fact that it includes the CIA triad as the basis of the definition. No, this is not the United States’ spy agency, but rather the fundamental foundation of security. That is Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA).

We will get to the CIA triad in more detail shortly, but consider our previous discussion about cybersecurity. How does a company maintain its business? Customers support the business because the company provides services acceptable to the customers. What happens if the business is not able to deliver on promised services or the business openly releases customer data? The business would not last long because the customers would quickly transition to competitors. In this example, the business needs to improve reliability or availability and establish...

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Lester Nichols

Lester E. Nichols III currently resides in North Texas and is the Director Security Architecture/VP Cybersecurity Operations at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Previous experience includes the Director of IT Infrastructure and Security for a development company, SOC oversight manager/Senior Infrastructure Officer within DHS and previous experience in Local/Federal/DoD/financial sectors. Lester has post graduate education with a Master's of Science Degree in Information Assurance from Norwich University, the oldest private military school in the United States, and multiple industry certifications including CISSP and SANS certs, as well as others. Lester is also a contributing author to the Computer Security Handbook 5th-6th Editions by Wiley Press.
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