Data_in_transit

Data in transit

Data in transit

Data that is currently traveling across a network

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. [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. [2]
    "Data in Flight | January 2010 | Communications of the ACM".
  3. [3]
    SANS White Paper on Encryption
  4. [4]
    "Data Protection: Data In transit vs. Data At Rest". Digital Guardian. Retrieved 2023-04-12.


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