Data Security

We start by exploring the concept of data governance, so that students can build the foundation for understanding, classifying, and protecting data. Students learn to navigate the variety of compliance regulations that apply to data security and create policies that prevent unauthorized disclosure of information Students focus on protecting confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data through concepts like encryption, auditing, file integrity, and backup strategies.

• Introduction to Data Security
• This lesson provides an overview of the course including a brief introduction to data security, a brief history, when data security applies, and who it affects. Get a look at the final project.
• Data Governance
• Data governance is about understanding the data in your organization, its importance, who owns it, and where it exists. This enables you to effectively manage and secure it.
• Data Confidentiality
• In order to protect data from unauthorized access, you will need to know how to map out a storage architecture and then apply the appropriate encryption for both data at rest and in transit.
• Data Integrity
• In order to ensure data is trustworthy within the organization, you will need to understand information rights management, access control, file integrity, and auditing.
• Data Availability
• Through planned incident response, disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup strategy, organizations can ensure data is available when needed.
  
• Data Security Analysis in Online Payment Processing
• You’ll spend a day in the life of a data security professional going through the process of establishing and implementing data security controls.