Data Protecting for Enterprises
Data is the lifeblood of every company, allowing them to run efficiently and profitably. However, businesses must balance the need for available and abundant data with the need to ensure that customer data is kept private and secure. The latter aspect is driven by new and changing privacy laws, such as Europe’s GDPR and California’s CCPA as well as old-fashioned laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Securities and Exchange Commission rules protecting shareholders’ financial information and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard for data about consumer payments.
The first step in ensuring the security of your data is to catalogue and safeguard all of your data. This means identifying and separating data according to its sensitivity and determining access levels. It is essential to establish policies that protect data, regardless of whether it’s in transit or in its rest. Using a tool to monitor and detect activities in the file and detect suspicious patterns can help you identify suspicious activity quickly and identify and eliminate vulnerabilities that could be a result of outdated or incorrectly configured software.
A complete plan for recovery and backup that includes physical storage media will be essential. Last but not least it is vital to enforce meaningful measures of security, from background checks for potential hires and regular training for current employees, and even terminating employees who no longer need access to critical systems. Additionally, it’s important to establish a disaster recovery plan to ensure that your data is safe in the event of a natural or man-made catastrophe.
