Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Data Classification Schemes

Different firms have different levels of confidentiality, but it is certainly worth assigning a security level to every document in your organization so that workers know how to handle the data. As the document is developed in SharePoint Server 2007, the security level of the document can become a defining (and indexable) piece of metadata. Most classification schemes use one or more of the following document categories: public, confidential, secret, and private. Each organization will have its own scheme, and our point is not that you should copy what is written here, but instead that you implement a classification scheme and then use that scheme as new information is developed. Because most content that is developed ...