Data security

Controls that keep data confidential, intact and available throughout its life, wherever it is stored or moved.

Covers the technical controls that keep data confidential, intact and available. The legal and organisational protection of personal data, including compliance with data protection law, is Data protection.

Information assurance is the wider management of information in any form and the risks to it; Data security is the set of controls applied to the data.

Scheme

• Technologies and capabilities

Broader terms

• Cybersecurity