This module will teach students how to recognize, classify, and protect different types of data, including personal, sensitive, and regulated information. They will explore data sovereignty and geographical considerations that impact storage and access, as well as the differences between data breaches and privacy breaches. Students will understand security compliance, monitoring, and reporting processes, and learn practical methods for data protection and loss prevention, including encryption, masking, tokenization, and DLP solutions. By the end, they will be able to assess risks, enforce policies, and put protectional safeguards in place to protect organisational data’s availability, confidentiality, and integrity.