confidentiality of information

  • 1Information assurance — (IA) is the practice of managing information related risks. More specifically, IA practitioners seek to protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring confidentiality, integrity, authentication, availability, and non… …

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  • 2Confidentiality — Confidential redirects here. For other uses, see Confidential (disambiguation). Confidentiality is an ethical principle associated with several professions (e.g., medicine, law). In ethics, and (in some places) in law and alternative forms of… …

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  • 3Information security — Components: or qualities, i.e., Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA). Information Systems are decomposed in three main portions, hardware, software and communications with the purpose to identify and apply information security… …

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  • 4confidentiality — con‧fi‧den‧ti‧al‧i‧ty [ˌkɒnfdenʆiˈælti ǁ ˌkɑːn ] noun [uncountable] the practice of keeping private information secret: • He raised concerns that departmental confidentiality had been breached. • a confidentiality agreement * * *… …

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  • 5confidentiality agreement — 1) A confidentiality agreement (also known as a non disclosure agreement or NDA) should be signed before giving away any business sensitive information. The agreement will normally provide that the information given is confidential, should only… …

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  • 6confidentiality — index privacy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 confidentiality …

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  • 7Information privacy — Information privacy, or data privacy is the relationship between collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. Privacy concerns exist wherever personally… …

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  • 8confidentiality clause — ➔ clause * * * confidentiality clause UK US noun [C] LAW, HR ► a part of an agreement in which the people or companies involved agree not to give particular information to other people or companies: »The agreement includes a strict… …

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  • 9confidentiality — n. the state or attribute of being secret; privacy; as, you must respect the confidentiality of your client s communications. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] 2. discretion in keeping secret information. [WordNet 1.5] …

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  • 10confidentiality agreement — UK US noun [countable] [singular confidentiality agreement plural confidentiality agreements] business an agreement in which a person or organization that has important information about the activities of another organization promises not to give …

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