Survey on Privacy Preservation of Sensitive Data

As the Internet grows and network bandwidth continues to increase, administrators are faced with the task of keeping confidential information from leaving their networks. In various data-leak cases, data loss is caused mainly by human mistakes. Recently government organizations show that the numbers of data-leak instances have grown quickly. One of the important issues in the information security research is data leakage or data loss especially caused by insider threat as insider threats have potential to inflict severe damage to the organizations resources, financial assets and reputation. However privacy and secrecy consideration can prohibit the organizations from willing to share the data from each other and this is one of the major tasks in the information security. In literature various papers address the problem of data leakage caused by human mistakes in the field of information security. This paper reviews the different methods used for mitigating data leakage and misuse detection. As per literature, need to develop an effective model for detecting data leakage in the field of information security.