Security Architecture: Data Classification

Question 1

What are the potential data classification?

Answer 1

Potential data classifications include:

Sensitive

Confidential

Public

Restricted

Private

Critical

Question 2

What are the deemed as the US government data classification?

Answer 2

Per the U.S. government, data classifications are:

Confidential

Secret

Top secret

Question 3

What is Public?

Answer 3

Public – Information that must be accessed by public

Question 4

What is Private?

Answer 4

Private – Not accesible by the public

Question 5

What is Sensitive?

Answer 5

Sensitive – Treated differently from private data / Only appropriate access will be allocated to each department eg Financial Department can not access anything from Health information

Question 6

What is restricted?

Answer 6

Restricted – Sensitive from different groups such as finance or HR departments have only accessed to information that is only for those department

Question 7

US Data Classification?

Answer 7

Confidential – which is the strongest security protocol/label

Official Government Data classification

Secrete

Top Secret

Question 8

What is Macie?

Answer 8

AWS – Macie will go through Data stores and classify them automatically.