Without classifying your information, you cannot decide how it should be handled and what controls you should put in place to protect it as part of your ISO 27001 project. If you don’t classify it, your information and its inherent value is at risk of being lost.

Information classification is a process in which organisations assess the data that they hold and the level of protection it should be given. Organisations usually classify information in terms of confidentiality – i.e. who is granted access to see it. Public information (everyone has access)

Data Classification Levels Data Classification in Government organizations commonly includes five levels: Top Secret, Secret, Confidential, Sensitive, and Unclassified. These can be adopted by commercial organizations, but, most often, we find four levels, Restricted, Confidential, Internal, Public.

Why classify sources? When you classify sources, you are recording information about your sources—for example, you could record: Bibliographical information about journal articles or other publications—you can import this data from reference management tools like EndNote or Zotero.

There are three different approaches to data classification within a business environment, each of these techniques – paper-based classification, automated classification and user-driven (or user-applied) classification – has its own benefits and pitfalls.

The Two Main Flavors of Data: Qualitative and Quantitative At the highest level, two kinds of data exist: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative data deals with numbers and things you can measure objectively: dimensions such as height, width, and length.

Sensitive data can be classified into four types: Low data sensitivity type/ public classification….

• Low data sensitivity type.
• Moderate data sensitivity type.
• High data sensitivity type/confidential data.
• Restricted type of sensitive data.

Classifying and sorting involves finding things that are the same, or alike, and grouping them by specific traits or attributes. For example, a bunch of animals can be grouped based on their color or type of animal. You can have young children classify anything, including blocks, leaves, plates, or toy cars.

(i) Classification facilitates the identification of organisms. (ii) helps to establish the relationship among various groups of organisms. (iii) helps to study the phylogeny and evolutionary history of organisms. (iv) By studying a few animals, the characteristics of the whole group can be known.

Classification is the skill of sorting or grouping items by similar characteristics, such as colors, shapes or sizes. Children naturally classify toys by type and sort crayons by color.

In science, sorting living things into groups that are alike and have similar qualities makes them easier to study and to identify newly discovered organisms. The grouping itself is know as the science of classification; the naming of the groups is known as taxonomy.

Sorting is any process of arranging items systematically, and has two common, yet distinct meanings:

1. ordering: arranging items in a sequence ordered by some criterion;
2. categorizing: grouping items with similar properties.

We group things together by characteristics such as shape, size, color, texture, etc. and usually group items based on characteristics that are important to us. In addition to distinguishing characteristics of objects, sorting helps us count, which can naturally lead to the concepts of addition and subtraction.

Grouping helps in gaining systematic knowledge of things. It also gives a general idea about all members of a group and the differences between members of different groups. It is convenient to work with all members of a group knowing their properties.

In sorting objects, they separate them according to similarities and differences. When comparing, the children determine if an object has more or less of an attribute. Classifying and sorting activities help children to develop a range of thinking skills and build the foundations for later problem-solving.

Why Sorting Is An Important Skill In Daily Life As well as practical considerations such as not dyeing all of your white shirts pink, by sorting we are regulating our environment and providing ourselves with a certain amount of organization and control.