Data in transit

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Data in transit, also referred to as data in motion [1] and data in flight, [2] is data en route between source and destination, typically on a computer network.

Data in transit can be separated into two categories: information that flows over the public or untrusted network such as the Internet and data that flows in the confines of a private network such as a corporate or enterprise local area network (LAN). [3]

Data in transit is used as a complement to the terms data in use , and data at rest which together define the three states of digital data. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Data in motion and data in transit both used on cloudsecurityalliance.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-15. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  2. ↑ "Data in Flight | January 2010 | Communications of the ACM". January 2010.
  3. ↑ SANS White Paper on Encryption
  4. ↑ "Data Protection: Data In transit vs. Data At Rest". Digital Guardian. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
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