From the course: CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) Cert Prep: 7 Compliance and Assessment
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Data sovereignty
From the course: CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) Cert Prep: 7 Compliance and Assessment
Data sovereignty
- [Instructor] In the era of cloud computing organizations spread their data across a variety of service providers. We use infrastructure, platform, and software as a service solutions that are managed by other firms and store our data in their data centers. Cloud service providers intentionally distribute customer data across many different geographic locations. They do this as a security control to protect against regional failures. If one area experiences a massive power outage redundant data centers in another region can pick up their slack. This geographic distribution of data introduces an important concern. The principle of data sovereignty says that data is subject to the legal restrictions of any jurisdiction where it is collected, stored, or processed. Think about the impact here. If a company in the United States collects information from a U.S. citizen, and stores it in a U.S. data center, that data…
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