A picture does not always tell 1,000 words

I was on Wikipedia researching information security (yes I am the world's most boring person). Anyway up popped the following picture:

There really should be laws against publishing such hideous diagrams on the web. What if a child should be exposed to such diagrams - they could be scarred for life!

So how do we fix this diagram? Sometimes text can be more powerful than a diagram. Let's try the following:

The three qualities to protect information assets is Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. These qualities are produced in information systems through hardware, software and communications. Apart from the information system the information assets are protected by policies that guide people on how to use security products.