Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: confidentiality
Definition: the property that information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities or processes; an attack on confidentiality would seek to view databases, print files, discover a password, etc., to which the attacker was not entitled.

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