The process of safeguarding important information from corruption, compromise, or loss, ensuring compliance with data protection laws and regulations.
Involves encryption (at rest and in transit), backups, integrity checks (checksums, hashing), access-control policies, and incident-response plans. Data-protection governance ensures that critical data remains available and unaltered, with clearly defined backup frequencies, retention schedules, and recovery-time objectives aligning to regulatory and business-continuity needs.
A financial institution stores customer records in encrypted databases with daily incremental backups and weekly full backups to an off-site vault. They perform quarterly restore-tests to validate data integrity and meet legal retention mandates under GDPR and banking regulations.
