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Which of the following is NOT a technological approach to safeguard privacy as confidentiality?

  • Employing techniques to hinder inferences from non-hidden data
  • Providing users with control over the information they share (correct)
  • Hiding metadata associated with service usage
  • Using encryption to protect sensitive data

What is the primary goal of the "privacy as confidentiality" paradigm?

  • To ensure data transparency and open access to information
  • To limit the information available to adversaries (correct)
  • To enable users to trace information back to its source
  • To allow users complete control over their data

Which of the following is NOT considered a human factor leading to errors?

  • Fatigue
  • Environmental changes (correct)
  • Common habits
  • High workload

Which of the following is an example of metadata associated with service usage?

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What is a potential impact of individuals having a risk-taking attitude?

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What is the purpose of using techniques to hinder inferences from non-hidden data in the "privacy as confidentiality" paradigm?

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How does the "privacy as confidentiality" paradigm differ from the "privacy as informational control" paradigm?

<p>Confidentiality focuses on limiting access, while informational control emphasizes user control over their data. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which task factor is likely to increase the chances of human error?

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In what situation are people most likely to make errors due to environmental conditions?

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What is the primary objective of minimizing exposed information in the "privacy as confidentiality" paradigm?

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Which of these best describes the difference between the "privacy as confidentiality" and "privacy as transparency" paradigms?

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What aspect related to the device used for security mechanisms may limit user performance?

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Why is it important to hinder adversaries from performing inferences using non-hidden data in the "privacy as confidentiality" paradigm?

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What is the main goal of k-anonymity?

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What is the process of replacing specific quasi-identifiers with less specific values called?

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How does generalization achieve k-anonymity?

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What is the primary technique used to achieve k-anonymity when generalization leads to excessive information loss?

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In the context of achieving k-anonymity, what are 'outliers'?

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What does the 'k' in k-anonymity represent?

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In the example of generalizing a table with ZIP codes and ages, what does 476** represent?

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Why is it necessary to consider external data sources when evaluating the effectiveness of k-anonymity?

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What is the main advantage of using generalization to achieve k-anonymity?

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Which of the following is NOT a potential limitation of using k-anonymity?

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What is the main purpose of a contingency plan?

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Which of the following is NOT a component of a contingency plan?

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What is the difference between an event and an incident?

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What is the primary goal of Incident Response (IR) planning?

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Which of the following is NOT a key component of a typical IR policy?

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What is the purpose of incident classification?

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Which of the following is NOT a possible indicator of a security incident?

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What is the primary difference between a disaster recovery plan (DRP) and a business continuity plan (BCP)?

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When is a disaster recovery plan (DRP) typically activated?

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What is the main difference between a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan?

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Who is typically responsible for managing a business continuity plan (BCP)?

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What does the principle of 'psychologically acceptable' security mechanisms refer to?

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Why is 'rule-bending' a common occurrence in security?

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According to the content, what is the key to creating effective security measures?

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According to the content, what is the key principle of usable security?

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What is the main purpose of implementing two-person control in personnel security practices?

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Which of the following security practices is primarily focused on ensuring that employees take regular breaks from their work?

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What is the primary benefit of including InfoSec responsibilities in every employee's job description?

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Why should elements of job descriptions that describe access privileges be omitted when advertising open positions?

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What is the main goal of the 3-anonymity principle in data anonymization?

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Which of the following best describes the practice of job rotation in personnel security?

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When an employee leaves an organization, which of the following steps should be taken to protect sensitive information?

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What is the primary purpose of conducting security checks, such as background checks, on potential employees?

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What is the primary goal of conducting security awareness and training activities for employees?

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What are quasi-identifiers?

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Why is the concept of re-identification significant in privacy management?

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Which example illustrates K-anonymity?

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What is a potential risk associated with the use of microdata?

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Which of the following is an example of a quasi-identifier?

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What does the term 'linking anonymized datasets' refer to?

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What percentage of the U.S. population can be uniquely identified using quasi-identifiers like ZIP code, birth date, and gender?

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What demographic attributes are commonly considered as quasi-identifiers?

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What is a common misconception about anonymized data?

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Flashcards

Target User Capabilities

The characteristics and limits of the people using a security mechanism.

User Goals and Tasks

The tasks users perform to achieve their goals. This includes the steps they take and the purpose behind each task.

Context of Use

The environment where a security mechanism is used, including physical factors (e.g., noise levels) and social factors (e.g., team dynamics).

Device Capabilities

The limitations and capabilities of the device used for a security mechanism.

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Human Error

Human errors arise from various factors. Factors can be personal like fatigue, experience, and attitude, or environmental like a rushed work environment, inadequate tools, unclear instructions, or changes in routines.

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Privacy as Confidentiality

The goal of privacy is to prevent unauthorized access to information.

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Technological Approaches for Confidentiality

Techniques are used to hide both data and metadata.

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Preventing Inferences

Methods aim to hinder inferences made from data that cannot be hidden.

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Privacy as Informational Control

Privacy involves empowering individuals to control how their personal information is used.

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Privacy as Transparency

Transparency focuses on open and clear communication about data practices.

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Minimizing Exposed Information

Minimizing the amount of exposed information while using services is a key objective.

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Metadata associated with services

Metadata associated with service usage, like timestamps and location, can also be sensitive and require protection.

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Explicit Data vs. Metadata

Explicit data refers to the information directly provided by a user, while metadata is generated indirectly through service usage.

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Contingency Plan

A plan outlining procedures for restoring business operations, including IT systems, in the event of an emergency, system failure, or disaster. This plan may involve relocating to an alternate site.

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What is an incident?

Events that either actually or potentially compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of an information system, data, or violate security policies.

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Incident Response (IR) Plan

A detailed set of procedures and processes designed to anticipate, detect, and mitigate the impacts of unexpected events that could potentially compromise information and assets.

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Incident Response Planning (IRP)

A comprehensive framework that outlines how to prepare, respond to, and recover from an incident. It includes policies, procedures, and roles for incident management.

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Incident Response Policy

A policy that defines the scope, structure, responsibilities, and process for managing information security incidents within an organization.

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Incident Classification

The process of analyzing a possible incident to determine if it constitutes a genuine security breach. This involves identifying suspicious activities and indicators.

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Possible Indicators of Incidents

Factors that suggest an incident is occurring or may be imminent. These can include: Unexpected files, unknown programs, resource consumption, and system crashes.

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Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

A plan designed to restore IT systems and operations after a disaster. It focuses on getting systems back online.

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Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

Activated when the IR plan is no longer sufficient to handle a major, long-term disaster. It ensures critical business functions continue despite the disaster.

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Psychology in Security Design

Security measures should be psychologically acceptable to the people using them. This means considering their needs, habits, and limitations.

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Human Factors and Economics in Security

Security mechanisms should be designed to minimize complexity and burden on users, making them easy to implement and understand.

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Crime Science and Economics in Security

The effort required to bypass a security measure should outweigh the potential rewards for the attacker. This makes it less attractive to attack.

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Usable Security - Understanding Non-Compliance

Non-compliance with security practices often occurs when users prioritize productivity over security. This is driven by organizational pressures.

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Usable Security - Key Elements

Designing security that is usable, effective, and acceptable to users is crucial for achieving real-world security. Make security work for them.

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Two-Person Control

A practice requiring two individuals to review and approve each other's work before tasks are considered complete. Prevents a single person from carrying out unauthorized actions.

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Separation of Duties

Important tasks are divided, so no single person can complete them alone. Helps prevent fraud and misuse of data.

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Job Rotation

A security practice where employees switch roles to ensure no one has exclusive control over critical tasks. Prevents knowledge concentrations.

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Mandatory Vacation Policy

This policy requires employees to take at least one week of vacation every year. Allows for independent review of work by others, reducing unauthorized actions.

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Securing Job Descriptions in Hiring

Securing sensitive data about new employees, like access privileges, during the hiring process. This protects the company and the employee.

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Protecting Sensitive Sites during Tours

Preventing exposure to secure facilities and restricted sites during new employee tours. Protects sensitive information and areas.

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InfoSec Briefing for New Hires

Providing new hires with a comprehensive information security briefing, covering rules, policies, and best practices. Builds a strong security foundation.

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On-the-Job Security Training

Ensuring periodic security awareness and training to keep employees updated on security threats and best practices. Improves employee skills and knowledge.

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Background Checks for Hiring

Performing background checks on every candidate before extending job offers. Helps prevent hiring individuals with a history of security breaches.

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Data Security upon Employee Termination

Disabling employee access to company systems, collecting removable media, and securing their hard drives upon termination. Prevents unauthorized access to sensitive data.

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Quasi-identifiers

Information that can, when combined with other publicly available information, potentially reveal an individual's identity.

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Re-identification

The process of using publicly available information to identify individuals in seemingly anonymized datasets.

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K-Anonymity

A privacy-preserving technique that ensures that each individual's information in a dataset cannot be distinguished from at least k-1 other individuals.

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Generalization

A privacy-preserving technique where each person's data is replaced with a distinct value, ensuring no unique identifier remains.

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Suppression

A privacy-preserving technique that hides sensitive information by replacing it with random values, preserving the distribution of the original data.

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Data Perturbation

A technique to hide, blur, or distort sensitive information in order to create a fake or synthetic version of the data.

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Data Masking

A category of privacy-preserving techniques that aim to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information by transforming the original data, while preserving its usefulness for analysis and research.

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Attribute Removal

This involves removing specific attributes that are most likely to be linked to individuals, which can make the data less sensitive.

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Data Substitution

A technique that involves replacing sensitive information with a set of common or generic values, ensuring that no specific values are revealed.

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Attribute Identification

The process of determining which attributes in a dataset are most likely to be used for linking individuals to sensitive data.

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Equivalence Class

A group of k records in a dataset that are identical in terms of their quasi-identifiers. This means these records cannot be distinguished from each other based on the provided information.

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Generalization (k-Anonymity)

A type of data anonymization approach where certain values in a dataset are replaced with broader categories to achieve k-Anonymity. This aims to protect sensitive information while maintaining data integrity.

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Suppression (k-Anonymity)

The process of removing certain data points from a dataset to achieve k-Anonymity. This is often employed when generalization would lead to excessive information loss.

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k-Anonymous Table

A dataset where sensitive information is anonymized by replacing specific values with broader categories or omitting certain data points to ensure k-Anonymity.

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Generalization in Action

In k-Anonymity, the process of transforming a dataset to achieve k-Anonymity by replacing specific quasi-identifiers with less specific values. This is often done by grouping data points into broader categories or ranges.

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Data Anonymization

Data anonymization techniques are used to protect sensitive information in data while enabling the usage of this data for research and analysis. These techniques aim to prevent the identification of individuals while retaining data utility.

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External Data

An external dataset containing information that can potentially be linked with a primary dataset to identify individuals. This can pose a risk to privacy and anonymity.

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Study Notes

Exam CI607 Information Security Management

  • Exam date: Thursday 23rd January
  • Time: 3:00pm - 1.5 hours
  • Location: W507
  • Number of questions: 3
  • Instructions: Answer all 3 questions
  • Check for any time changes.

Contingency Planning

  • Contingency plan: Management policy and procedures to maintain or restore business operations (including computer operations) in emergencies, system failures or disasters.
  • Components:
    • Incident Response (IR) plan
    • Disaster Recovery (DR) plan
    • Business Continuity (BC) plan

What is an Incident?

  • Incident: Observable occurrence in a system and/or network that threatens confidentiality, integrity, or availability of an information system or information processed, stored or transmitted by that system, or violates security policies.
  • Events can indicate an incident is occurring.
  • Incident Response (IR) plan: Detailed processes and procedures to anticipate, detect, and mitigate effects of unexpected events that may compromise information and assets.
  • Incident response planning (IRP): Preparation for incidents.
  • IR is carefully planned and coordinated to quickly contain and resolve incidents.

Incident Response Policy

  • Key components of a typical IR policy:
    • Statement of management commitment
    • Purpose and objectives of the policy
    • Scope of the policy
    • Definition of InfoSec incidents and related terms
    • Organisational structure and definition of rules, responsibilities, and levels of authority.
    • Prioritization or severity ratings of incidents
    • Performance measures
    • Reporting and contact forms

Detecting Incidents

  • Incident classification: examining possible incident or incident candidate to determine if it is a real incident.
  • Possible indicators:
    • Presence of unfamiliar files
    • Presence or execution of unknown programs or processes
    • Unusual consumption of computing resources
    • Unusual system crashes

Cost Balancing

  • Cost balancing: evaluating the trade-offs between the cost to recover (system mirror or tape backup) and cost of disruption (business downtime) to determine the optimal balance point.

Disaster Recovery

  • Disaster recovery planning (DRP): preparing for and recovering from a disaster.
  • Disaster recovery (DR) plan: activated when the IR plan is unable to handle the recovery. Can be triggered by natural disasters or human-caused issues.

Business Continuity

  • Business continuity planning (BCP): plans that ensure critical business functions continue if a disaster occurs.
  • Managed primarily by the CEO.
  • Activated concurrently with the DR plan, especially during major or long-term disasters.
  • Plan to allow business to continue operation in case primary location is unusable.

Security Design Principles

  • Security mechanisms should be psychologically acceptable to users.
  • Human factors and economics: security mechanisms should be kept simple.
  • Crime science and economics: Security must be difficult to bypass versus resources and potential gain.

Usable Security

  • Non-compliance (rule bending) arises from a choice between productivity and security, with most workers prioritizing productivity.
  • Security that works for people is security that works.

Usable Security Key Elements

  • Capabilities and limitations of the users.
  • User goals and tasks.
  • Social and physical context of use.
  • Capabilities and limitations of the device.

Human Error

  • Individual factors: Fatigue, inexperience, risk-taking attitude.
  • Human factors: Memory limitations, habits, assumptions.
  • Task factors: Time pressure, high workload, monotony, uncertainty about roles.
  • Work environment: Interruptions, poor equipment, changing rules.

Privacy Paradigms

  • Privacy as confidentiality: Hiding information from adversaries.
  • Privacy as informational control: Hiding both data and metadata.
  • Privacy as transparency: Protecting the ability to make inferences from data.

Cryptography Based Access Control

  • Protecting data using cryptography.
  • Two adversarial models:
    • Trusted recipient (protect data in transit only)
    • Untrusted recipient (protect data both in transit & when processed).

Obfuscation Based Inference Control

  • Obfuscation techniques mask data to reduce inferences about user information.
  • Cryptography guarantees confidentiality but cannot hide all information.

Obfuscating Techniques

  • Anonymization: Making it very hard to identify an individual
  • There can be multiple unique combinations of information that are identifiable to an individual
  • K-anonymity, generalization, suppression, dummy addition, perturbation - differential privacy are used for obfuscation.

K-Anonymity

  • K-anonymity: Released data where each person's information is indistinguishable from at least k-1 other individuals.
  • Introduced by Latanya Sweeney and Pierangela Samarati.

Classification of Attributes

  • Key attributes/identifiers: Attributes that identify individuals (e.g., name, address).
  • Quasi-identifiers: Attributes that, when combined with other data, can be used to identify individuals (e.g., ZIP code).

Re-identification by Linking

  • Microdata joined with external data sources to potentially identify individuals.
  • K-anonymity concept; information of one person in the released table is indistinguishable from others in the release.

Generalization

  • Goal: Make k records indistinguishable from other k-1 records.
  • Generalization: The process of replacing quasi-identifiers with less specific (but consistent) values to protect privacy.

Achieving K-Anonymity

  • Generalization: Replacing specific values with less specific values until k identical values are obtained.
  • Partition of ordered domains into intervals.
  • Suppression: Reducing information loss during generalization (common with outliers).

Generalization in Action

  • Illustrative example of generalization and anonymization of attribute values.

Example Generalization (1 & 2)

  • Released table and external data linking illustrations of potential re-identification problems. K-anonymity is used to illustrate how this is a problem.

Employment Policies and Practices

  • InfoSec responsibilities in job descriptions
  • Key HR aspects: Recruiting, hiring, firing, managing, releasing.

Personnel Security Practices

  • Two-person control: Requires two individuals to review and approve tasks.
  • Separation of duties: Critical tasks are split between individuals to require more than one person.
  • Job rotation: Employees perform multiple assignments to increase knowledge of all tasks in the organization.
  • Task rotation: All critical tasks can be performed by multiple individuals to reduce dependency on one person or group.
  • Mandatory vacation policy: Allows periodic review of employee's work.

Hiring Part 1 & 2

  • Job descriptions should omit access privileges.
  • Interviews should avoid restricted areas.
  • New hire orientation focuses on extensive InfoSec briefings including on-the-job security awareness training.
  • Conducting security checks and background checks during the hiring process.

Termination Issues

  • When employees leave: Disable systems access, collect removable media, secure hard drives, and change relevant security access.
  • Escorted departure, returning company property as part of the termination procedure.

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