Automated tiered security for confidential information and confidential information sharing and methods thereof

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
• determine a request security tier associated with an electronic information request for user-related secure data, the request security tier being a particular security tier of a plurality of security tiers in a hierarchical set of security tiers, each security tier of the hierarchical set of security tiers being associated with a respective authentication requirement;
• wherein each data item of a plurality of data items of the electronic information request is associated with a respective security tier of the plurality of security tiers based at least in part on a degree of sensitivity of each data item;
• wherein the request security tier is determined as the particular security tier of the plurality of security tiers being associated with at least one particular data item of the plurality of data items, the at least one particular data item being of elevated sensitivity within the plurality of data items;
• determine at least one authentication requirement associated with the request security tier according to authentication settings of the security tier of each item;
• and
• allow, upon user authentication according to the at least one authentication requirement of the request security tier, a requesting computing device associated with the electronic information request to access each data item of the user-related secure data associated with the electronic information request.