ICT. Information and Communications Technologies that include computer equipment, computer programs, services and printing devices that are used to store, process, convert, protect, transfer and retrieve information, data, voice, images and video. ICT Assets. Computer programs, computer goods, technological solutions, systems or applications, their components, databases or electronic files and the information contained therein. Information. Set of organized and processed data included in documents and in ICT assets. Information Asset (s). All information and the means that contain it, which, due to the importance and value it represents for any division or entity of the Federal Public Administration (APF, in Spanish), the Legislative and Judicial Powers, the autonomous constitutional organs, the productive enterprises of the State, the State, Municipal and Delegational governments, as well as individuals, must be protected to maintain confidentiality, availability and integrity, according to the value granted to it. Information Security. Capacity to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, as well as its authenticity, auditability, protection against duplication, non-repudiation and legality. Auditability. It defines that all the events on a system must be able to be recorded for subsequent control. Authenticity. It seeks to ensure the validity of the information in time, form and distribution. It also guarantees the origin of the information, validating the issuer to avoid phishing. Legality. It refers to compliance with the legal framework to which the institution in question is subject. Non-Repudiation. It refers to preventing an entity, body or person, who has sent or received information, from contending to third parties that the information was not sent or received by it/him/her. Protection Against Duplication. It consists in ensuring that a transaction is only made once, unless otherwise specified, as well as preventing a transaction from being recorded for later reproduction, in order to simulate multiple requests from the original sender. Internet. Set of telecommunication networks that offer services and digital communications through the public telecommunications network.

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