Unofficial Disclosure And Failure Of Confidentiality

Information security is the way of ensuring information is only read, heard, changed, broadcast and otherwise used by people who have the authority to do so. It requires a range of skills and knowledge and increases in significance as our use of and reliance upon information grows.
All information has importance. Sometimes this might be minor but in many cases that value is extensive. Importance can be measured in different ways, depending on the nature of information. In some cases, there may be a straightforward monetary value connected with given information. For others, emphasis is placed on different aspects of value. For example, the effects of unofficial disclosure and failure of confidentiality.