Data Flow Diagram

About this block

Data Flow Diagram makes encryption visible. Under a centered heading, an SVG diagram traces the journey: a your tools node, a TLS labeled arrow into a filled Acme core annotated with in memory processing and logging, then an AES labeled arrow into a storage node drawn with a small padlock. A numbered three step list below expands each hop into two sentences. The chart scrolls horizontally on phones.

The diagram is one SVG of plain coordinates and text elements, so the labels, TLS 1.3, AES 256, and the node copy, edit as strings. The steps are an array matched to the three hops. Keeping the protocol names on the arrows rather than in a footnote is what makes the drawing feel like documentation.

When to use

Reach for this block when reviewers ask where the data goes and prose answers keep spawning follow ups. One diagram settles the topology question that security-pillars-grid answers only control by control. It belongs on trust centers and the security section of data heavy products, and it is the natural companion to residency-map-dots, which answers where geographically while this answers how.

A natural flow around it on a Marketing Pro page:

Before

• Security checklist blocks naming the controls the diagram then locates

After

• Residency map for the geographic half of the question
• Contact for the reviewer with topology questions left

What you can display

One strong use is the encrypt in transit, process, encrypt at rest journey. Other flows:

• Ingestion pipeline. Sources, queue, processing, and warehouse with the security property labeled per hop.
• AI data path. Prompt, model provider, and retention boundary, for products fielding AI data questions.
• Backup topology. Primary, replica, and offsite copy with recovery times on the arrows.

Tip: label the arrows with protocols and the nodes with behavior, reviewers trust drawings that use their own vocabulary.