Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In matters concerning information security, whether public or private sector, compartmentalization is the limiting of access to information to persons or other entities who need to know it in order to perform certain tasks.The concept originated in the handling of classified information in military and intelligence applications, though it dates back to antiquity, and was used to successfully keep the secret of Greek fire.The basis for compartmentalization is the idea that, if fewer people know the details of a mission or task, the risk or likelihood that such information will be compromised or fall into the hands of the opposition is decreased. Hence, varying levels of clearance within organizations exist. Yet, even if someone has the highest clearance, certain \"compartmentalized\" information, identified by codewords referring to particular types of secret information, may still be restricted to certain operators, even with a lower overall security clearance. Information marked this way is said to be codeword–classified. One famous example of this was the Ultra secret, where documents were marked \"Top Secret Ultra\": \"Top Secret\" marked its security level, and the \"Ultra\" keyword further restricted its readership to only those cleared to read \"Ultra\" documents.Compartmentalization is now also used in commercial security engineering as a technique to protect information such as medical records."@en }
Showing triples 1 to 1 of
1
with 100 triples per page.
- Compartmentalization_(information_security) abstract "In matters concerning information security, whether public or private sector, compartmentalization is the limiting of access to information to persons or other entities who need to know it in order to perform certain tasks.The concept originated in the handling of classified information in military and intelligence applications, though it dates back to antiquity, and was used to successfully keep the secret of Greek fire.The basis for compartmentalization is the idea that, if fewer people know the details of a mission or task, the risk or likelihood that such information will be compromised or fall into the hands of the opposition is decreased. Hence, varying levels of clearance within organizations exist. Yet, even if someone has the highest clearance, certain \"compartmentalized\" information, identified by codewords referring to particular types of secret information, may still be restricted to certain operators, even with a lower overall security clearance. Information marked this way is said to be codeword–classified. One famous example of this was the Ultra secret, where documents were marked \"Top Secret Ultra\": \"Top Secret\" marked its security level, and the \"Ultra\" keyword further restricted its readership to only those cleared to read \"Ultra\" documents.Compartmentalization is now also used in commercial security engineering as a technique to protect information such as medical records.".