Glossary
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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.
Example
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.