General approaches that must be utilized to prepare and plan for keeping your secret.
Detail approaches that apply to specific types of secrets.
The Concepts and Strategies of keeping things private are fairly consistent across many different situations. The tactics and specific details of how you keep things private will vary greatly depending on WHAT you want to keep private and from WHOM you want to keep it private. The dictionary definitions associated with the following terms may overlap a bit, and it wouldn't take much debate to blur the distinctions. This includes things such as pre-emptive steps, diversions, overt activities, and of course lying. This requires limiting the number of people who even know about it.