From the course: ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) (2024) Cert Prep

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Confidentiality

Confidentiality

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Confidentiality

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- Throughout this course, you will learn about many different controls that information security professionals use to achieve their goals. Each of these controls is aligned with at least one of the three key objectives of information security: confidentiality, integrity, or availability. One of the things you'll need to do on the exam is match security controls with their corresponding goals. Let's take a look at some of the controls that security professionals use to enhance confidentiality. One way that we protect the confidentiality of information is preventing people from accessing sensitive information in the first place. Access controls are the primary mechanism for restricting people from seeing data that they shouldn't see. Access controls protect confidentiality by limiting users to accessing only those files where they have been granted permission. Later in this course, you'll learn how to use the Windows file access controls that are linked with active directory to restrict…

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