The property that data is not disclosed to system entities unless they have been authorized to know the data. (See: Bell- LaPadula model, classification, data confidentiality service, secret. Compare: privacy.)
The property that data is not disclosed to system entities unless they have been authorized to know the data. (See: Bell- LaPadula model, classification, data confidentiality service, secret. Compare: privacy.)
"The property that information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities, or processes [i.e., to any unauthorized system entity]." [I7498-2].
Deprecated Definition: The phrase "made available" might be interpreted to mean that the data could be altered, and that would confuse this term with the concept of "data integrity".