What information requires special handling and control?
Confidential: Information maintained by state agencies and exempt from disclosure under the provisions of the Texas Open Record Act or other state or federal law. Examples of confidential information include student grades and test scores, software source code, personnel data, and computer passwords. Mission Critical: Information defined by state agencies to be essential to the agency’s function. Mission critical data requires special precautions, as determined by agency risk management decisions, to assure its accuracy and integrity. Examples of mission critical information may include include financial transactions, budgetary information, bid information, operating information. Confidential information must be protected from unauthorized or accidental disclosure to the public. Mission critical information requires a higher than normal assurance of accuracy and completeness, and must be protected from unauthorized modification or deletion. What are legitimate and non-legitimate uses o
