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Information classification

Information classification

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Information classification

- [Instructor] Organizations use information classification to help users understand the security requirements around handling different data types. Data classification policies describe the security levels of information used at an organization and the process for assigning information to a particular classification level. The different security categories, or classifications, used by an organization determine the appropriate storage, handling and access requirements for classified information. Security classifications are assigned based upon both the sensitivity of the information and the criticality of that information to the enterprise. Classification schemes vary but all basically try to group information into high, medium, and low sensitivity levels, and differentiate between public and private information. For example, the military uses the familiar top secret, secret, confidential, unclassified classification scheme.…

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