Conflicts Among the Pillars of Information Assurance

Interactions are described among some of the pillars of information assurance: authenticity, availability, confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation. For some pairs, efforts aligned with the goal of one pillar can frustrate efforts aligned with the other pillar. For example, availability may introduce conflicts with each confidentiality, integrity and authenticity, whereas confidentiality and integrity are largely complementary.