Confidentiality
Confidentiality means protecting your non-public information from unauthorized access. You decide who is authorized to access the information and under what conditions. You are not going to open up your financial data or your clients private information, to everyone with an Internet connection.
Failure to maintain confidentiality means that the above scenario is exactly what can happen. We read about this kind of failure, called a breach, unfortunately, quite regularly with breaches involving millions of records exposing everything from social security numbers, medical records and sensitive financial information.
A breach, in an overwhelming number of incidents, cannot be remedied. Secrets once revealed cannot be taken back and if your organization is the source of the breach you may face legal, regulatory, financial and reputation loss. While we read about the large company breaches, the truth is most breaches come from small business and many small businesses that experience a breach do not recover.
ConstantQuery: CyberSecurity for Small Business Edge programs can help you improve and maintain the confidentiality of your information.