SayPro Maintaining Confidentiality at Workplace

Individual’s Duties· Employees should exercise discretion while interacting with their fellow colleagues. Personal disclosures should be made thoughtfully and any work-related information must not be shared at all or shared very carefully, if required.· Employee must refrain from sharing information that the organisation considers sensitive. They must maintain a professional attitude at all times.HR Initiatives

• The HR department must take steps and devise such policies and procedures that ensure complete workplace confidentiality. The policies should cover their work as well, i.e. protection of personnel and benefit records.
• Only devising such policies is not enough. They must also be communicated to all the employees, supervisors and managers. Employee confidentiality training through handouts, seminars, and workshops, etc is also a good way of ensuring confidentiality in the long run.
• It is important to make employees aware of the specific actions, which comprise breach of confidentiality. They must also be educated about the consequences of the same, to deter them from doing so.
• Considering the growing use of electronic method to save information, the organisation must initiate efforts to foolproof their data using advanced or sophisticated electronic methods such as firewalls, password protection, encryption, etc. This will keep access, usage, and transmission of the protected data, safe.
• There must be strict laws regarding disposal of sensitive information. Any information, once redundant must be disposed off in an appropriate manner. It may not serve any purpose to the organisation anymore but that doesn’t make it less sensitive. The HR or the organisation must erase these records in such a way that there are no potential leaks.

Environmental security examines the threat posed by environmental events and trends to individuals, communities or nations. It may focus on the impact of human conflict and international relations on the environment, or on how environmental problems cross state borders.The Millennium Project did a global assessment of the definitions of environmental security and created a synthesis definition: Environmental Security is environmental viability for life support, with three sub-elements:

• preventing or repairing military damage to the environment,
• preventing or responding to environmentally caused conflicts, and
• protecting the environment due to its inherent moral value.

Environmental security is an important concept in two fields: international relations and international development.Within international development, projects may aim to improve aspects of environmental security such as food security or water security. Targets for MDG 7 about environmental sustainability show international priorities for environmental security. Target 7B is about the security of fisheries on which many people depend for food. Fisheries are an example of a resource that cannot be contained within state borders. A conflict before the International Court of Justice between Chile and Peru about maritime borders and their associated fisheries[1] is a case study for environmental security.Security controls are safeguards or countermeasures to avoid, counteract or minimize security risks.To help review or design security controls, they can be classified by several criteria, for example according to the time that they act, relative to a security incident:

• Before the event, preventive controls are intended to prevent an incident from occurring e.g. by locking out unauthorized intruders;
• During the event, detective controls are intended to identify and characterize an incident in progress e.g. by sounding the intruder alarm and alerting the security guards or police;
• After the event, corrective controls are intended to limit the extent of any damage caused by the incident e.g. by recovering the organization to normal working status as efficiently as possible.

(Some security professionals would add further categories such as deterrent controls and compensation. Others argue that these are subsidiary categories. This is simply a matter of semantics.)Security controls can also be categorized according to their nature, for example:

• Physical controls e.g. fences, doors, locks and fire extinguishers;
• Procedural controls e.g. incident response processes, management oversight, security awareness and training;
• Technical controls e.g. user authentication (login) and logical access controls, antivirus software, firewalls;
• Legal and regulatory or compliance controls e.g. privacy laws, policies and clauses.

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