Which term occurs whenever there is a disclosure or modification of data?

• A. Data Loss
• B. Data Compromise
• C. Trend Analysis
• D. Employment and Termination Procedures

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is that data compromise happens anytime data is exposed to unauthorized disclosure or altered without permission. When information is disclosed to someone who shouldn’t have access, or when data is changed in ways that weren’t approved, the data’s confidentiality and/or integrity is breached. That makes data compromise the right term because it covers both types of incidents—unauthorized disclosure and unauthorized modification.

Data loss, by contrast, focuses on data being unavailable, lost, or destroyed, and doesn’t necessarily involve someone seeing or changing the data. Trend analysis is about examining data to find patterns, which isn’t about security incidents. Employment and termination procedures relate to HR processes, not data security.