Suggested methodology for Document Classification
1. Public:
- Marketing brochures
- Public site content
- Retail price lists
2. Private:
- Human resource data (interviews, employee evaluation)
- Compensation info
3. Internal:
- Internal directories (phones, locations)
- Policies and procedures (except for sensitive issues)
- Common shared source code
- Description of non-critical business processes
4. Confidential:
- Departmental budgets and customer data
- IT and telephony infrastructure
- Financials and budgets - department level
5. Secret:
- Strategic plans
- Stock options plans (unless public by law)
- Patents and trade secrets
- Financials and budgets - company level
- M&A activities
- Executive level management change
