Survey on Data Leakage and Data Misusuability Issues

Computer systems and the information that they generate, practice, transmit, and hoard has become obligatory to the contemporary endeavor. In today’s on-demand, always connected, data-driven world and more than ever in light of the renovation of entire national economies from manufacturing-based paradigms to knowledge based ones?many organizations rightly count their information systems among their most important assets. Organizations often use these IT systems to store and process vast quantities of sensitive data, which, if disclosed, could be potentially damaging to an organization. Detecting and preventing data leakage and data misuse poses a serious challenge for organizations, especially when dealing with insiders with legitimate permissions to access the organization’s systems and its critical data. This paper presents a survey on various data access control mechanisms used in the modern information world.