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European Cybersecurity Atlas

Data Security and Privacy

Security and privacy issues related to data in order to (a) reduce by design privacy and confidentiality risks without impairing data processing purposes or (b) by preventing misuse of data after it is accessed by authorised entities.

The subdomains for this knowledge domain are:

  • Privacy requirements for data management systems
  • Design, implementation, and operation of data management systems that include security and privacy functions
  • Anonymity, pseudonymity, unlinkability, undetectability, or unobservability
  • Data integrity
  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET)
  • Digital Rights Management (DRM)
  • Risk analysis and attacks with respect to de-anonymization or data re-identification (e.g. inference attack)
  • Eavesdropping techniques (e.g. via electromagnetic radiation, visual observation of blinking LEDs, acoustic via keyboard typing noise)
  • Data usage control