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Preserving data confidentiality

Preserving data confidentiality

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Preserving data confidentiality

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- [Instructor] Each cybersecurity control that we implement is aligned with at least one of the three key objectives of cyber security: confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Let's take a look at some of the controls that security professionals use to enhance confidentiality. One way that we protect the confidentiality of information is preventing people from accessing sensitive information in the first place. Access controls are the primary mechanism for restricting people from seeing data that they shouldn't see. Access controls protect confidentiality by limiting users to accessing only those files and other stored data where they have been granted permission. In the world of access controls, cyber security professionals are often responsible for designing those controls while data stewards may be responsible for actually granting and administering user access. Encryption is also an important security control for enforcing confidentiality. Attackers may try to steal…

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