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Reading Data Protection: Data In transit vs. Data At Rest

From your day to day computer use, provide examples of when data is at rest and when it is in transit.

• Data at rest is data that stays in your computer and is not shared across platforms, for example, if you are creating a microsoft document, and it does not automatically syn across devices would be data at rest.
• Data in transit would be when you email that file, or share it through a sharing application like onedrive, or google drive

The difference is whether that data is currently being moved, or not.

Explain the role of data encryption with regards to the CIA triad.

Data encryption would be ensuring the confidentiality of the packet you are currently moving. For example, if it was a physical packet, that packet would be in a folder that would specify who can see it, which would see it, but encryption goes a step further, and changes the language and readability of the file completely so only those who are authorized to read it can read it. kind of like how qr codes are not readable until the camera reads them, or stamps that need blue light in order to see and read the stamp. etc.