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encryption at rest

/ɪnˈkrɪpʃən ət rɛst/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The control most cited in the questionnaire and least relevant to the breach, which came in through a login.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The encoding of stored data so that it is unreadable without a key, protecting it if the storage is compromised.

Evidence

See also

access controlsA least-privilege model in which forty-one people have privilege, because requesting removal is harder than requesting access.
breach notificationThe seventy-two-hour clock that starts the moment someone decides whether it counts as a breach.
data maskingThe careful obscuring of the production data, in the one environment, that a different team had already copied somewhere else.