All companies rely on some sort of digital data to be able to operate, e.g. customer data, financial data, business plans. Digital Data is the most important asset and needs to be kept secure in order for any company to be successful. Whether you work for a small or large organization, an innovator company, a public company, a software as a service company or any other company with any digital transactions, data plays a vital role for that company operation. Today, no company can survive without digital data and with all cyber attacks going on, protecting data becomes more and more important.

Securing the data is really the foundation of any information security program, and any security control implementation is done for that reason.

Here, you will learn different data security requirements and techniques. At the end of this course, you will be able to understand what different types of data are, the importance of them for different organizations and security control requirements to protect them.

This course will have 5 main sections as below:

1. What are the Data Types, Data Classification, and Data Lifecycle

2. What are the Law and Industry Regulations specific to digital data

3. What is the Data Governance and Management

4. What is Data Monitoring and Incident Response

5. What are the common Data Security Technical Controls