confidentiality

1. Of classified or sensitive data, the degree to which the data have not been compromised; i.e., have not been made available or disclosed to unauthorized individuals, processes, or other entities. [After 2382-pt.8]
2. Assurance that information is not disclosed to unauthorized persons, processes, or devices. [INFOSEC-99]
3. A property by which information relating to an entity or party is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities, or processes. [T
1. Rpt22-1993]
3. The prevention of the unauthorized disclosure of information [CESG].
4. A security property of an object that prevents:- its existence being known and/or- its content being known. This property is relative to some subject population and to some agreed degree of security [ECMATR46].
5. Assurance that information is not disclosed to inappropriate entities or processes [FC Ver
1. 0 Dec 1992].
6. The property that information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities, or processes [7498-2].
7. The prevention of the unauthorized disclosure of information [ITSEC].
8. The property that the existence of an object and/or its contents is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized subjects [POSIX.6].