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In Part 4 of this series, we asked the question: “Where does the data live?” Sensitive data that is at rest must be protected by access controls and by encryption, according to its classification and security policies. Data does not stay in one place, though – it does not even stay in the many places [...]

Once data has been classified and we know what types of sensitive data a system stores or processes, we have to locate the data we want to protect. Data exists in one of two states – it is either at rest or in transit. We have to ask two questions: 1) Where does the data [...]

Protecting sensitive data requires an expenditure of money, time, and effort. We want to protect all of our client’s sensitive data, but we don’t want to waste resources on data that is not sensitive . In addition, some kinds of data require more protection than others. We need a way to identify and classify sensitive [...]