What are the levels of confidentiality?
A typical system will include four levels of confidentiality:
- Confidential (only senior management have access)
- Restricted (most employees have access)
- Internal (all employees have access)
- Public information (everyone has access)
Is Top Secret the highest level of classification?
Top Secret is the highest level of classification. However some information is further categorized/marked by adding a code word so that only those who have been cleared for each code word can see it.
What kind of information is top secret?
Top Secret refers to national security information or material which requires the highest degree of protection. The test for assigning Top Secret classification is whether its unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
Is SSN restricted or confidential?
Background. The Social Security number (SSN) has a unique status as a privacy risk. No other form of personal identification plays such a significant role in linking records that contain sensitive information that individuals generally wish to keep confidential.
What is Caveated information?
Caveats are used to indicate these additional special protections. Some information requires the strictest control over its access and movement. The originator designates this as accountable material. Entities must ensure security classified information is stored, transferred, and disposed of appropriately.
What kind of information is Top Secret?
Is Sci higher than Top Secret?
Information “above Top Secret,” a phrase used by the media, means either Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) or Special Access Program (SAP). It is not truly “above” Top Secret, since there is no clearance higher than Top Secret. The SCI designation is an add-on, not a special clearance level.