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Data Security

What is Data Security?

The practice of protecting digital information from unauthorized access, corruption, or theft throughout its entire lifecycle.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data security. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on data security

Requirements naming data security across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

The State establishes and improves a data-security standards system; relevant bodies organise the development of data-security standards.

DSL-Art17 · Data Security Standards (Art. 17)

Providers and technical supporters must strengthen training-data management and ensure data security; where training data contains personal information they must comply with personal-information protection rules, and where it involves editing biometric informa...

CN-DS-A14 · Training Data Security and Biometric Consent
SASB Standards3 controls

Disclose data security practices, data breach incidents, and customer privacy protection measures

SASB-SC-1 · Customer Privacy and Data Security

Classify data by sensitivity and apply controls commensurate with classification levels.

DMBOK-DSec-01 · Data Security Classification

Data security lifecycle management. Implements CyFun PR.DS-3 / PR.DS-5: assets are formally managed throughout removal, transfer and disposition, and protections against data leaks are implemented.

BE-CF-39 · Data security lifecycle management

Questions people ask about data security

What is Data Security?
The practice of protecting digital information from unauthorized access, corruption, or theft throughout its entire lifecycle.
Why is Data Security important for compliance?
Data Security is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding data security helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Data Security?
Data Security appears in the requirement text of Israel Protection of Privacy Law (5741-1981), China Data Security Law (DSL), Administrative Measures for the Security Assessment of Generative AI Services (2023) and Algorithmic Recommendation Management Provisions (2022), SASB Standards, DAMA-DMBOK2 - Data Management Body of Knowledge (2nd Edition). Across these standards we have identified 32 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Data Security?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how data security applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Data Security applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.