From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 2 Secure Software Requirements

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Private data storage

Private data storage

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Private data storage

- [Instructor] Data privacy regulation often dictates storage and retention requirements. As a CSSLP, you'll be expected to implement controls related to these unique requirements with a particular focus on cross borders implications. The idea of data residency lies at the heart of your private data storage strategy. From a storage standpoint, the physical servers that host a copy of your app data lie within the borders of one or more countries around the world. With software, platform, and infrastructure as a service providers steadily increasing in popularity, understanding where your data resides is becoming increasingly important. Each country has different laws that determined who has the authority to make legal judgments and decisions when a violation occurs. If you make promises to your customers that government agencies can't access their data but then you store that data in a country where the government has…

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