The digital age has brought with it the ubiquity of data. Ubiquitous data, of all kinds, has necessitated the spread of organizational roles that manage, organize, and safeguard this data. At its most basic level, cybersecurity is concerned with ensuring the right mix of confidentiality, availability, and integrity of data and systems. The field of privacy, also known as data protection, is concerned with ensuring the trustworthy management of personal information, as it is collected, used, retained, shared, and disposed of. Other related fields, from data governance to data ethics, concern themselves more broadly with the management of information through a variety of lenses.
