The process of ensuring that no unnecessary access to data exists and that employees are able to perform only the minimum operations necessary on a set of data is referred to as the principle of .

Least privilege

Explanation:

Organizations are always very careful when it comes to data privacy and protection to avoid data compromise, invasion and stealling. Data are the information an organization have which can be further processed. It could be information about its customers, the organization as a whole.

Data access are sometimes restricted to employees in an organization. They would only grant limited access to those employees who resources requires performing legitimate and routine work.

Example Is when a bank grant limited access right to it's staff to be able to edit and update customer's information on the bank's application. These employees will not be able to edit all the information about the customer because the major details like date of birth has been blocked from being edited to avoid compromise.