Information Security: Principles and Practices 2nd Edition by Jim Breithaupt, Mark S. Merkow

Exercise 8

Related to information security, confidentiality is the opposite of which of the following?

A. closure

B. disclosure

C. disaster

D. disposal

Step 1 of 2

Confidentiality

Confidentiality implies that the data should be accessed only by authorized user. The data should be preserved and must not be disclosed by any unauthorized person. Thus, confidentiality can also be defined as the preservation of data.

Thus, the opposite of preservation is disclosure.

Therefore, the correct option is.