Information classification

Question 1

What is sensitive personal information?

Examples?

Answer 1

• Information that must be protected from unauthorized access. Safeguard there privacy or security of a person.
• Biometric data, medical records, phone n.o, personal identification.

Question 2

What is sensitive business information?

Examples?

Answer 2

• Information that must be protected from unauthorized access, safeguard there privacy or security of an individual.
• Trade screens, financial data, supplier and customer information.

Question 3

What is non-sensitive information?

Examples?

Answer 3

• Information, which is already a matter to the public record
• Address of the firm in a chain or head office

Question 4

What is private information?

Examples?

Answer 4

• Information about individual and organisations
• Address, phone number, relationship status, nationality gender. (Information, which defines as Personal Data by, the Data Protection Act, falls into category.)

Question 5

What is public information?

Examples?

Answer 5

• Is information about the government and publicly own organisation.
• Doctors, dentist

Question 6

What is personal information?

Examples?

Answer 6

• Refers to information about the individual.

- Phone number.

Question 7

What is business information?

Examples?

Answer 7

• Refers to information about the business.

- Sales figures.

Question 8

What is confidential information?

Examples?

Answer 8

• Private data, which is more of significant value in comparison to the other types of information.
• Medical records

Question 9

What is classified information?

Examples?

Answer 9

• Is public information that should be kept private.

- The armed force, has information, which they need to keep secure due to the work, they are carrying out.

Question 10

What is partially anonymised data ?

Examples?

Answer 10

• Certain information is hidden & the rest is available, which prevents someone from being identified.
• students:survey, no names stated = no ones knows who said what.

Question 11

What is completely anonymised data ?

Examples?

Answer 11

• All the information is anonymous, prevents what the data says & where or who it belongs to.
• Lists of suppliers & remove all the supplier information such as their address, phone number etc.

Question 12

What is stakeholder?

Examples?

Answer 12

• People who have an interest or impacted by the actions of an organisation.
• Stakeholders are internal and external individuals.