How many categories should a data classification scheme include? Why?
Corporate and military organizations may use a variety of data classification schemes. Some as the military are more complex, while corporations could have more simple schemes with fewer categories. Private enterprise schemes may have only three categories: Confidential, Internal, and External. Another scheme has four categories: Public, For Official Use Only, Sensitive, and Classified. On the contrary, the Military has the most complex data scheme, with five categories: Unclassified, Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU), Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. To properly implement data classification schemes a company must first decide upon the sensitive scheme its going to use. One company may choose to use only two layers of classification, while another company may choose to use more. Some classifications are used for commercial and business, while others are for the military. It is important to not go overboard and come up with a long list of classifications, which will only cause conf
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