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Data Residency
Data residency is the requirement that data must be physically stored within a specific geographic location, such as a country or region. These rules are often set by governments to protect citizens' privacy and ensure legal jurisdiction over the data.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
Data residency is a compliance requirement mandating that digital data, particularly Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI), be physically stored on servers within the borders of a specific jurisdiction or nation-state. This concept is central to data sovereignty and privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, directly influencing cloud infrastructure design, cross-border data transfers, and data governance policies for multinational organizations.
BACKGROUND
Edward Joseph Snowden is a former United States National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence contractor who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
READ MORE ON WIKIPEDIASYNONYMS & ALIASES
- data localization
- data sovereignty
- in-country data storage
- geographic data hosting
- data domiciling
- residency requirement
USAGE NOTE
When selecting a cloud provider, companies must verify their data center locations to ensure compliance with applicable data residency laws.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Data Residency.
Offers a global cloud infrastructure with distinct geographic 'Regions' and services like AWS Control Tower, allowing customers to build and manage environments where data storage and processing can be restricted to specific physical locations to meet data residency requirements.
Provides 'Azure Geographies', which are discrete markets that preserve data residency and compliance boundaries. This enables customers to keep their data and applications within a specific geographic area to comply with local regulations.
Develops cloud services with features like 'Assured Workloads' and specific data location controls that help customers restrict the geographic processing and storage of their data to meet strict regulatory and data residency mandates, particularly for government and defense clients.
Provides the CipherTrust Data Security Platform, which enables organizations to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data with encryption and centralized key management, helping enforce data residency policies across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Operates a specialized Data Residency-as-a-Service platform that enables companies to securely store and process regulated data within its country of origin, providing a direct technology solution for complying with over 90 different local data laws.
Develops a data security platform that automatically discovers and classifies regulated data across cloud and on-premises environments. This provides the necessary visibility and control for organizations to enforce data residency policies and prove compliance.
Creates Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) technologies that help organizations enforce policies to prevent sensitive data from being moved to or stored in unapproved geographic locations, directly addressing data residency controls.
Offers the Prisma Cloud platform, which provides security and compliance monitoring for cloud-native applications. It helps organizations continuously identify and remediate misconfigurations that could lead to data residency violations.
Provides a Security Service Edge (SSE) platform that includes CASB, Secure Web Gateway, and data loss prevention technologies. These tools allow organizations to set and enforce granular policies on where data can be stored and accessed in the cloud, aiding data residency compliance.