Having a clear understanding of where your data is being consumed is a critical first step toward being able to secure and ultimately protect it. Using data flow diagrams, it is possible to know the ...

This is the 8th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the ...

(1) The path of data from source document to data entry to processing to final reports. Data changes format and sequence (within a file) as it moves from program to program. See dataflow diagram and ...