Data in transit

Short description: Data that is currently traveling across a network

Data in transit, also referred to as data in motion[1] and data in flight,[2] is data en route between source and destination, typically on a computer network.

Data in transit can be separated into two categories: information that flows over the public or untrusted network such as the Internet and data that flows in the confines of a private network such as a corporate or enterprise local area network (LAN).[3]

Data in transit is used as a complement to the terms data in use, and data at rest which together define the three states of digital data.[4]

## See also

* Bandwidth-delay product

## References

1. ↑ "Data in motion and data in transit both used on cloudsecurityalliance.org". https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance/csaguide.v3.0.pdf.
2. ↑ "Data in Flight | January 2010 | Communications of the ACM". https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/1/55738-data-in-flight/fulltext.
3. ↑ SANS White Paper on Encryption
4. ↑ "Data Protection: Data In transit vs. Data At Rest" (in en). https://www.digitalguardian.com/blog/data-protection-data-in-transit-vs-data-at-rest.

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