Planning the Classifications

Because the four labels are hierarchical, they will be encoded as hierarchical classifications.

With the legal department's approval, the Security Administrator shortened the labels by omitting Solar Systems Proprietary/Confidential: from the label names. Classifications do not allow the use of a slash in the label, and long classifications make it difficult for employees to read the labels in the window system. The name of a label is truncated from right to left in the window frames. Because the truncated names of all the label names above PUBLIC would begin with the words SOLAR SYSTEMS PROPRIETARY CONFIDENTIAL, the truncated names would be indistinguishable without manually extending the frame for each window.

The Security Administrator defined the following labels:

• REGISTERED

• NEED_TO_KNOW

• INTERNAL_USE_ONLY

• PUBLIC