Accessing information at the workplace is not left to everyone that has an account and login credential. The information might happen to be more sensitive than people perceive it to be which calls for a hierarchy in accessing this information and preserving the confidentiality of the information. At the workplace, accessing information involves login into the accounts that have been assigned to the people that work there.
These accounts are designed to prevent the users from accessing information that they have not been authorized to access and for this reason, there is always a restriction based on the kind of account that a user of the system has used to access the information. While logging into the applications at the workplace, a server at the backend will carefully go through the access control list that is stored in its memory to match up the user and the kind of permissions that they have been assigned to the information.
Once the user has been authorized as a user of a given level, they get to open their account and from here, they are only permitted to access as much information as their permission level allows them. This is also the reason information has to be restricted so that beginners, for instance, do not get to access sensitive information and make modifications to this information.
Changing details owing to too many permissions granted to a new user of the information system could lead to losses and this is something that is not entertained at the workplace which is the reason user accounts are given varying levels of information access.
With this in place, the people at the workplace will be prevented from seeing more than they have permission to and they are also not able to modify the information on the system.
This restriction is actually useful to prevent the loss of information on the information systems as the low-level users will not be able to modify the information and as this goes, they will also not tamper with the information on the system thus ensuring and maintaining information integrity for the information system.
With this in place, the high-level users will be more cautious about how they handle and deal with the information that they have access to and this means that they will be more responsible and in general, the overall system will be able to run smoothly and take care of the needs of the users without causing any loss or accidental modification of information.
The users of the system will also have an easier time and better peace of mind whenever they are working with the information systems at the workplace when they know that they are only allowed access to as much information as they can comfortably and safely handle without tampering with the information system. The administrators also get to have better control over the information system and can determine which of the users of the information system get their permissions and privileges enhanced once they have gotten more used to the system.
