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CompTIA SecurityX CAS-005 · Domain 2: Security architecture

Data security architecture: classification, labeling, DLP, data lifecycle, tokenization and masking

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Data is usually what attackers want, so data security architecture decides how data is classified, protected and eventually destroyed. Controls should follow the data wherever it goes, not just protect the network around it.

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