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A situation in which the source of information is more sensitive than the information itself. Explain why the sum of sensitive data might also be sensitive.
Sensitive Data:
Sensitive Data is a data that has some important information which is confidential and can cause harm if revealed to unauthorized users.
A company holds all his employees information such as contact details, address, banking details, usernames and passwords (company login). All this details are stored in a database and are sensitive data. Lets say someone got employees bank details such as account number, contact details etc but he doesn't know the credentials for opening company's database so he is not able to steal the username and password of employee. Thus in this case the source that is database credentials are more important than the actual sensitive information.
Sum of sensitive data might also be sensitive:
Sensitive Data is the data which is critical and needs to be safeguarded in such a way that no hacks and attacks take place.
An employees data include :
Contact details
Addess Details
Id proofs
Bank account details
Username
Password (Company Login)
All this is sensitive because it is someone's personal data and might lead to any crimes if revealed to any other person with wrong intentions.
Now, consider a scenario where the username and password for login to company's virtual machine is revealed to someone. Then he can take out any confidential information he wants.Thus sum of sensititve data is also sensitive.
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