Data in transit, also referred to as data in motion and data in flight, 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).
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.
See also
- Bandwidth-delay product
- End-to-end encryption (data encryption in transit)
References
"Data in motion and data in transit both used on cloudsecurityalliance.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-15. Retrieved 2016-04-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20160415105252/https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance/csaguide.v3.0.pdf ↩
"Data in Flight | January 2010 | Communications of the ACM". January 2010. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/1/55738-data-in-flight/fulltext ↩
SANS White Paper on Encryption http://www.sans.org/reading-room/analysts-program/encryption-Nov07 ↩
"Data Protection: Data In transit vs. Data At Rest". Digital Guardian. Retrieved 2023-04-12. https://www.digitalguardian.com/blog/data-protection-data-in-transit-vs-data-at-rest ↩