Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

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Data Recovery

Data recovery is the method of restoring data that has been lost, corrupted, accidentally deleted, or made inaccessible. In enterprise I.T., data recovery typically refers to the restoration of data to a desktop, server, laptop, or external storage system from an existing backup.

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