Data Education Center

Data Security Concepts

Learn about the ways to protect data on-premises and in the cloud.

• What You Need to Know about Data Breaches
• The Essential Guide to Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
• Logical vs. Physical Security for Data
• Endpoint Security vs. Startpoint Security

Data Privacy Laws

• What Is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?
• What Is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)?
• Healthcare Data Security: What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
• What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
• FERPA Compliance: A Guide for Educational Institutions

Data Classification & Discovery

• What is PII Data Classification?
• What Are Data Classes?

Data Masking

• Data Masking Tools & Best Practices
• What is Static Data Masking?
• What is Deterministic Data Masking?
• Real-Time (On-The-Fly) Data Masking Explained
• What is Data Masking?

Encryption & Key Management

• What is Encryption?
• What Is An Encryption Key?
• Encryption Key Management
• Data Masking vs. Encryption

Pseudonymization

• What is Pseudonymization?

Re-ID Risk Scoring & Anonymization

• What is Re-Identification Risk?
• What is Data Anonymization?
• Data Risk Determination
• Key Identifiers vs Quasi-Identifiers

Data & Database Subsetting

• What is Subsetting?
• What is File Subsetting?
• What is Database Subsetting?

Test Data Management & Virtualization

• What is Test Data Provisioning?
• What is Test Data Virtualization?
• What is Test Data Management (TDM)?

Synthetic Test Data

• What is Synthetic Data?
• What is ETL Testing?
• What is Data Vault 2.0?

Data Integration

• What Is Data Integration?
• ETL vs. ELT: Understanding these Approaches to Data Integration
• ETL Performance Optimization

ETL & Database Operations

• What is Database Unload?
• SQL vs. External Transformations (Python, ETL Tools, etc.)
• What is ETL and What are the Best ETL Tools?
• Database Reorganization: Online vs Offline Reorgs
• Database (DB) Load

Legacy Data & Database Migrations

• What is File Format Conversion?
• What is Database Migration?
• What is Data Type Conversion?

Change Data Capture & Replication

• What Is Change Data Capture (CDC)?
• Data Replication vs. Database Replication

Data Quality

• What is Master Data Management (MDM)?
• What is Data Quality?
• What is Data Cleansing?
• How to Pick the Right Data Quality Tools

Big Data

• What is Big Data? Definition, Key Characteristics, Future Trends
• Understanding Big Data Engines: Hadoop, CoSort, MPP, HPC, and AI
• Big Data Packaging: Definition, Best Practices

BI & Analytics

• What is Data Wrangling?
• What is Business Intelligence (BI)?
• What is a Data Lake?

Artificial Intelligence

• What Are the Different Types of AI? Narrow AI, General AI, Super AI
• What Are The Challenges of Using AI?
• Machine Learning & AI Research Topics (2025)
• 5 Current Trends in AI (2025)

Sort Tools & Migrations

• What Can the Unix Sort Do? Key Features and Examples
• What is JCL Sort? Key Features & Benefits
• What is COBOL Sort? Why It’s Still Used
• Proxy Coupling

Software Job Management

• On-Premise vs. SaaS: Which Is Better?
• Job Invocation Methods: GUI, CLI, API, DevOps Pipelines, and Schedulers
• Eclipse IDE and Git: Features, Benefits, and Usage
• Code Design: Code vs Low Code vs No Code