data custodian
In e-discovery terminology, the data custodian is usually the person responsible for, or the person with administrative control over, granting access to an organization’s documents or electronic files while protecting the data as defined by the organization’s security policy or its standard IT practices.
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The process of entering data into a computerized database or spreadsheet. Data entry can be performed by an individual typing at a keyboard or by a machine entering data electronically.
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The process of identifying, modeling and documenting how data moves around an information system. Data flow modeling examines processes (activities that transform data from one form to another), data stores (the holding areas for data), external entities (what sends data into a system or receives data from a system, and data flows (routes by which […]