Survey on Data Leakage and Data Misusuability Issues
Omesh Kumar · 2013
Computer systems and the information that they ge nerate, practice, transmit, and hoard has become obligatory to the contemporary endeavor. In today’s on-demand, always connected, data-driven world and more than ever in light of the renovation of entire national economies from manufacturing-based paradigms to knowledge based ones—many organizations rightly count their i nformation systems among their most important assets. Organizations often use these IT systems to store a nd process vast quantities of sensitive data, which , if disclosed, could be potentially damaging to an organization. D etecting and preventing data leakage and data misus e poses a serious challenge for organizations, especially whe n dealing with insiders with legitimate permissions to access the organization’s systems and its critical data. This paper presents a survey on various data access cont rol mechanisms used in the modern information world.