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Introduction to data security in the cloud

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Introduction to data security in the cloud

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- [Narrator] Data security involves safeguarding your data, whether it's stored, processed, or transmitted within cloud environments. It's important to understand that data security isn't just about protecting data from theft, but also ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability is intact for your users that need it the most. Cloud computing presents unique challenges for data security due to its dynamic nature. There's multi-tenancy and dependency on third party services. Some of the most common challenges include data privacy, which is about ensuring confidentiality in environments where resources are shared amongst these multiple tenants, data integrity, which is about preventing unauthorized modifications, and making sure that data is accurate and consistent, data compliance, which covers how organizations meet regulatory requirements that mandate data protection standards. And lastly, data availability, which ensures uninterrupted access to data and services even in…

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