Question

This week you are just submitting an outline on Data Security for approval by the end of Week 3. It must include a detailed outline of main points and subpoints.

Focus 10

Content/subject knowledge 20

Critical thinking skills 20

Organization of ideas/format 20

Writing conventions (grammar & mechanics) 20

Use of computer technology/ applications 10

Timeliness: (DEDUCTION) optional (10) Total 100

Answer 1

Data Security:

It refers to digital privacy security over your critical data and non shareable information, the way of preventing unauthorized access to your PC's, Databases and personal websites. It also the save the data from accident corruption or deletion, which can happen to anyone. It can also be termed as computer or information security.

Every organizations where bunch of data are in action it is necessary to concentrate on the protection of data, in spite of size.

Below are the few data security practices available in digital environment.

~ Back up of data.

~ Erasure Coding of data.

~ Replication of data.

~ Data masking.

There are lot of other data security practices are available in the market. The main practice in implementing the data security in any environment is authentication to access particular data. There are lot of authentication mechanism are available now, namely,

~ Passwords

~ Bio-metric

~ OTP

Example : Health care organization, payment card industries, Universites, where we will have loads and loads of data, all this organization will have their very own data security mechanism to secure the confidential informations,