From the course: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Cert Prep (2022): 1 Information Security Governance
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Understanding data security
From the course: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Cert Prep (2022): 1 Information Security Governance
Understanding data security
- [Instructor] Data is often an organization's most valuable asset. As such, it's appropriate that information security professionals spend a large amount of their time ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets. When security professionals think about data security, they normally begin by thinking about the security controls used to protect data in three different states. Data at rest, data in motion, and data in use. Data at rest is data stored somewhere for later use. This might be on a hard drive or USB stick, in a cloud service or run a magnetic tape as part of a backup or archival solution. Data at rest is vulnerable to theft if an attacker gains either physical or logical access to the storage media. This might be through stealing a hard drive or hacking into an operating system that has the drive mounted. Either method can be an effective way to steal data. And information…
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