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data flow

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

The path of data from input to output, which includes the traveling of data through the communication lines, routers, switches and firewalls as well as processing through various applications on servers that process the data from user input to storage in the organizations central database.

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Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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