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List four (or more) issues addressed by Information Assurance that are often not addressed by Information Security.

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Issues addressed by Information Assurance (AI) that are often not addressed by Information Security:

- Ensures the quality of information

- Ensures reliability of information

- Ensures retrievability of information

- Provides information restoration systems

- Provides an assorted response options for retrieving information

Step-by-step explanation:

Both, Information Assurance and Information Protection (or Information Security as defined by the NIST), provide preventive measures to uphold information systems´ integrity, confidentiality for protecting personal privacy and proprietary information with authorized restrictions on access and disclosure, and availability, ensuring protection of information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.

Information protection also uses security solutions, like encryption and other technologies. It can be considered as a sub-component of information assurance.

Differentiating both terms can be tricky, as the terms are inherently linked and both aim integrity of information preservation.

In addition to the benefits provided by information protection, information assurance also focuses on data integrity, authenticity, reliability, usability, non-repudiation, confidentiality, availability and timely access to information. It means a broader strategic initiative comprised of a wide range of information protection and management processes.

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