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  2. Information security - Wikipedia

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    Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. [1] It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized or inappropriate access to data or the unlawful use, disclosure, disruption, deletion, corruption, modification, inspection, recording, or devaluation of information.

  3. Information security standards - Wikipedia

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    The standard requires effective security measures that protect sensitive (personal) data and other assets, such as command and control data. It also requires that security vulnerabilities in the software have been eliminated, security principles, such as defense-in-depth have been followed, and the security of the software has been verified ...

  4. General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia

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    The regulation does not purport to apply to the processing of personal data for national security activities or law enforcement of the EU; however, industry groups concerned about facing a potential conflict of laws have questioned whether Article 48 could be invoked to seek to prevent a data controller subject to a third country's laws from ...

  5. FTC fair information practice - Wikipedia

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    whether the provision of the requested data is voluntary or required; the steps taken by the data collector to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and quality of the data. [12] 2. Choice/Consent [13] Choice and consent in an on-line information-gathering sense means giving consumers options to control how their data is used. Specifically ...

  6. Privacy law - Wikipedia

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    In healthcare, provinces like Alberta and British Columbia have specific laws protecting personal health information, which require healthcare providers to manage patient data with high confidentiality and security levels. This includes ensuring that patient consent is obtained before their personal health information is shared or accessed.

  7. Cyber-security regulation - Wikipedia

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    A cybersecurity regulation comprises directives that safeguard information technology and computer systems with the purpose of forcing companies and organizations to protect their systems and information from cyberattacks like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, phishing, denial of service (DOS) attacks, unauthorized access (stealing intellectual property or confidential information) and control ...

  8. Data security - Wikipedia

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    Software-based security solutions encrypt the data to protect it from theft. However, a malicious program or a hacker could corrupt the data to make it unrecoverable, making the system unusable. Hardware-based security solutions prevent read and write access to data, which provides very strong protection against tampering and unauthorized access.

  9. Confidential computing - Wikipedia

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    Confidential computing is a security and privacy-enhancing computational technique focused on protecting data in use.Confidential computing can be used in conjunction with storage and network encryption, which protect data at rest and data in transit respectively.