Eric Neugeboren reports:
Nevada’s IT agency has rolled out a new policy aimed at standardizing the privacy of state data, months after a massive cyberattack crippled certain systems for weeks.
The policy announced Wednesday from the Governor’s Technology Office marks the first time the state will have clear-cut categories for data sensitivity. Officials said this will allow agencies to go beyond simply denoting something as “sensitive” or “personal” and will ensure private data is not treated the same as public information.
… Data will now be classified as one of four categories: “public,” “sensitive,” “confidential” or “restricted.” It is up to individual agencies to determine the proper category, and if the classification is unclear, the data must be put in the more restrictive category.
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