encrypt:
encrypt: The process of converting plain text or data into coded language to protect its confidentiality and ensure secure transmission or storage.
sensitive data: Information that is confidential or private and requires special protection due to its sensitivity, such as personal information, financial information, health information, or business secrets.
data availability: The ability to access and use data when needed, ensuring that data is accessible and usable by authorized users when required.
US military: The armed forces of the United States of America.
Clearance levels: Levels of security clearance required to access sensitive information, with varying degrees of access based on the level of clearance.
data mining: The process of analyzing large data sets to identify patterns, relationships, and trends, using various statistical and computational methods.
data remanence: The residual information that remains on storage media after it has been erased or overwritten.
Personally Identifiable Information (PII): Any data that can be used to identify a particular person, such as their name, address, Social Security number, or other personal details.
flash drives: Small, portable storage devices that use flash memory to store and retrieve data.
flash memory: A type of non-volatile memory that can be erased and reprogrammed in blocks, commonly used in storage devices such as USB drives and memory cards.
EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, a type of non-volatile memory that can be programmed and erased electronically, commonly used in small portable storage devices such as USB drives.
ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library. IT Service Management (ITSM) framework that provides best practices for IT service management, focusing on aligning IT services with the needs of the business.
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. A US federal law that establishes privacy and security standards for protecting certain health information, known as Protected Health Information (PHI).
PHI - Protected Health Information. Under HIPAA, any individually identifiable health information that is created or received by a covered entity and relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual, the provision of healthcare to an individual, or the payment for healthcare services.
ROM - Read-Only Memory. Non-volatile memory that is used to store data that must be retained even when the power is turned off. Data in ROM cannot be modified or erased.
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory. Non-volatile memory that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. EEPROM is often used in small devices such as microcontrollers.
PLD - Programmable Logic Device. An electronic component that can be programmed to perform specific logic functions. PLDs include programmable logic arrays (PLAs), programmable array logic (PAL), and programmable logic controllers (PLCs), among others.
Data at Rest: This refers to stored data, such as data on disks, tapes, CDs/DVDs, or USB sticks.
Data retention: This refers to the period of time for which certain data needs to be kept.
SSD drives: Solid-state drives are a type of data storage device that uses NAND-based flash memory to store and retrieve data.
Clean desk policy: This is a policy that requires employees to keep their workspaces free of any sensitive or confidential information that could be accessed or viewed by unauthorized individuals.
Remanence: This refers to the residual magnetic field left on storage media after the data has been erased or the device has been formatted. It can be possible to recover data from media that has not been properly erased or destroyed.