Which term refers to techniques used to keep information secret, authorized, and uncorrupted?

• A. Cybersecurity
• B. Data Loss Prevention
• C. Privacy Policy
• D. Data Synchronization

Answer: (A)

Protecting information from threats relies on three core ideas: keeping data secret (confidentiality), ensuring only authorized users can access it (authorization and authentication), and keeping data unaltered and trustworthy (integrity). The term that covers the full set of techniques to achieve these goals is cybersecurity. It encompasses encryption to hide data, access controls and authentication to restrict who can use it, and integrity checks and monitoring to prevent or detect tampering, along with broader safeguards like secure coding and incident response.

Data Loss Prevention focuses more narrowly on preventing sensitive data from leaving an organization, which doesn’t fully address all aspects of keeping information secret, accessible only to authorized people, and uncorrupted. A Privacy Policy outlines rules about handling personal data, not the technical measures to protect it. Data Synchronization is about keeping data consistent across systems, not about protecting it from threats.