Security overview

Security is the art and science of protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an organization's assets against unauthorized acquisition, damage, disclosure, manipulation, modification, loss, or misuse. These assets include everything from facilities and personnel to computer systems and data.

Some important examples include:

Test center facilities.
Equipment and software, including workstations and laptops.
Test center personnel and candidates.
The security of the exam process.
Exam sponsors' intellectual property, including exam questions and answers.
Employee, candidate, and customer information.

Pearson Information Security maintains the high level Global Information Security Policy, which applies to all Pearson businesses and employees. You can view this policy, along with the Acceptable Use Policy and other security guidelines, on the following internal Pearson sites:

Global Information Security Policy

Acceptable Use Policy