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Data-At-Rest

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

Refers to all data stored on hard drives, thumb drives, DVDs, CDs, floppy diskettes, and similar storage media. It excludes data that is traversing a network or temporarily residing in computer memory to be read or updated.

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Refers to all data stored on hard drives, thumb drives, DVDs, CDs, floppy diskettes, and similar storage media. It excludes data that is traversing a network or temporarily residing in computer memory to be read or updated.