Data Encryption
What is Data Encryption?
The process of converting data into a coded form using cryptographic algorithms to prevent unauthorized access and protect confidentiality.
Terms that appear alongside data encryption
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data encryption. The number is how many controls name both.
- encryption 16 shared controls
- data protection 7 shared controls
- data security 5 shared controls
- nist 3 shared controls
- fips 2 shared controls
- key management 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern data encryption
What the standards actually require on data encryption
Requirements naming data encryption across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Apply cryptographic protection to stored data and to data moving across networks, using libraries that hold certification against an approved standard.
CCM-CEK-03 · Data Encryption →Kuwait NCF Protect function (Data). Data Protection and Encryption aligned with NIST SP 800-53 SC family + ISO 27001 A.10 cryptography + A.13 communications security + KDPPR CITRA data protection coordination.
KNCF-Protect-Data-Encryption-Classification-Cryptography-Key-Management-DLP-PKI-Quantum-Resistant · Kuwait NCF Protect + Data + Encryption + Classification + Cryptography + Key Management + DLP →A key shared by two entities or logically separate systems to encrypt account data between them, including the KEK that protects a data-encryption key, is unique to those two and never given to a third;
pci-p2pe::17-1 · PCI P2PE 17-1 →Encryption of personal data. Control from Bahrain PDPL framework, domain: Bahrain PDPL: Data Security.
BH-PDPL-13 · Encryption of personal data →Subject to the EAR are all items in the United States (including foreign trade zones and items in transit), all U.S.-origin items wherever located, foreign-made items incorporating, bundled or commingled with controlled U.S.-origin content in any quantity wher...
ear-export-administration-regulations::734.3 · 734.3 Items subject to the EAR →Distributed ledger networks that record data from several participants using cryptography, consensus, smart contracts and replication may support GxP processes such as supply chain track and trace, and the guide gives the GxP practitioner considerations for re...
gamp-5-good-automated-manufacturing-practice::D10 · Appendix D10 Distributed Ledger Systems →Questions people ask about data encryption
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