Confidentiality

In Brief

Ensuring the confidentiality of the data means ensuring that only authorised persons can access to that particular information. Security measures to guarantee confidentiality and to protect access to information against unauthorised persons. These measures must prevent intentional and unintentional loss of confidentiality.

Threats menacing confidentiality

Here is a non-exhaustive list of threats that can jeopardise the confidentiality of an asset:

• Compromise of information
  • Interception of compromising false signals
  • Remote spying
  • Passive listening
  • Theft of media or documents
  • Theft of equipment
  • Recovery of recycled or discarded media
  • Disclosure
  • Equipment trapping
  • Software trapping
  • Geolocation
• Technical failures
  • Hardware failure
  • Equipment malfunction
  • Software malfunction
• Unauthorised Actions
  • Illegal use of materials
  • Fraudulent copying of software
  • Use of counterfeit or copied software
  • Data corruption
  • Illegal data processing
• Compromise of Functions
  • User error
  • Abuse of rights
  • Usurpation of rights.