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data flow

nounid 2216·updated May 9, 2026
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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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Classifications

Entity Type

Process72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
data flows
possessive
data flow's
pluralpossessive
data flows'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
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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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