The purpose of this standard is to assist Users, Stewards, Managers, and Information Service Providers in identifying what level of security is required to protect data for which they are responsible.

All members of the Lycoming College community have a responsibility to protect Institutional Data from unauthorized access, modification, or disclosure and are expected to understand and comply with ...

Purdue University academic and administrative data are important university resources and assets. Data used by the University often contains detailed information about Purdue University as well as ...

Using confidentiality, integrity, and availability to classify data. To determine the level of protections applied to a system, base your classification on the most confidential data stored in the ...

CIOs and IT directors working on any project that involves data in any way are always more likely to succeed when the organisation has a clear view of the data it holds. Increasingly, organisations ...

Data drives business, but data can be a double-edged sword. How can you limit access to that vital enterprise marketing plan, confidential account database or super-secret research report? On the ...

Data classification can be viewed as the act of putting data in buckets, based on the criteria of confidentiality, criticality, sensitivity/access control and retention. The basis for framing a data ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

As organizations evolve, traditional data classification—typically designed for regulatory, finance or customer data—is being stretched to accommodate employee data. While classification processes and ...