tietoturvallisen

Tietoturvallisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective tietoturvallinen, which means information security or information-secure. The term combines tieto (information) and turvallinen (safe, secure) and is used in Finnish IT and data-protection discourse to describe objects, processes, or systems that meet information-security requirements.

In Finnish, adjectives inflect to agree with the noun they modify, so tietoturvallisen appears when the modified noun is in the genitive case. For example, in phrases like tietoturvallisen järjestelmän hallinta or tietoturvallisen toiminnan varmistaminen, the form conveys possession or a descriptive relationship to information security. The base concept is broader than a single object and covers practices, controls, and designs intended to protect data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

Related terms include tietoturvallisuus (information security, the noun form describing the field or discipline) and tietoturva (a broader term for security of information and IT systems). The adjective tietoturvallinen is commonly used to describe software, processes, or infrastructures as being information-secure, while tietoturvallisen functions as a grammatical form within such descriptions.

Usage in policy and standards contexts often centers on secure-by-design principles, risk management, and compliance with regulatory requirements. The term is prevalent in Finnish-language cybersecurity guidance, audits, and documentation, where precise inflection helps connect security claims to the nouns they qualify.

See also: tietoturvallisuus; tietoturva; tietoturvallinen.