Data in Motion

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Data in Motion is data that is currently traveling across a network or sitting in a computer’s Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RAM) ready to be read, updated, or processed. Data crossing over networks from local to cloud storage or from a central mainframe to a remote terminal should be encrypted so that it cannot be read or manipulated by any machine or hacker between the data’s source and destination. This data in motion includes data moving across a cables and wireless transmission. It can be emails or files transferred over File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or .Xv_LBfJ7lgQ