Definition: The potential for a loss related to your data Commentary: The risk could be through a wide range of risk categories such as regulatory risk, compliance risk, reputational risk, data breech...

Definition: A legally enforceable authority that is asserted over data by any entity, including not only the laws imposed by governments and regulators, but also the legally binding contractual obliga...

Definition: The process of converting Personal Data into a form that no longer identifies individuals and where re-identification is not likely* to take place. Commentary: In some jurisdictions, such ...

Definition: A piece of information that is not of itself a unique identifier of an entity, but that is sufficiently well correlated with the entity that it can be combined with other quasi-identifiers...

Definition: A level of storage within a tiered storage architecture Commentary: Different storage tiers will have different characteristics of cost, availability, performance and recovery

Definition: Data that is held physically and persistently on a storage device in any digital form Commentary: The term can apply to both structured and unstructured data

Definition: A classification of the information within a data asset that indicates the level of control and protection that must be applied to the asset due to the nature of the data and its sensitivi...

Definition: The sequence of processing steps that are performed between consumption of source data and production of an analytical product or outcome Commentary: Under the GDPR and other data protecti...

Definition: Data that supports the processes and systems that operate a business. Commentary: Data assets can generally be classified as either operational or analytical. Analytics data supports analy...

Definition: A combination of two or more cloud environments Commentary: Multi-cloud environments can combine environments from more than one cloud service provider or can combine separate environments...