Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Electronic Media
Electronic Media refers to storage systems such as hard drives, computers, USB, optical disk or any medium in which data can be stored in the digital format. Additionally, any medium used to transmit data such as the internet, extranet, dial up lines, private networks are considered as electronic media.
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