Data Protection & Security
Data security is a set of standards and technologies that protect data from intentional or accidental destruction, modification or disclosure. Data security can be applied using a range of techniques and technologies, including administrative controls. physical security, logical controls, organizational standards, and other safeguarding techniques that limit access to unauthorized or malicious users or processes.
There is no simple solution to data security-just adding another security solution won’t solve the problem. IT and information security teams must actively and creatively consider their data protection challenges and cooperate to improve their security posture. It is also critical to evaluate the cost of current security measures, their contribution to data security, and the expected return on investment from additional investments.
Data security has many overlaps with data privacy. The same mechanisms used to ensure data privacy are also part of an organization’s data security strategy.
Data Security Technology
Data Encryption
Data encryption a code to every individual piece of data and will not grant access to encrypted data without an authorized key being given
Data Masking
Masking specific areas of data can protect it from disclosure to external malicious sources, and also internal personnel who could potentially use the data. For example, the first 12 digits of a credit care number may be masked within a database.
Data Erasure
There are times when data that is no longer active or used needs to be erased from all systems. For example. if a mailing list, the details should be deleted permanently
Data Resilience
By creating backup copies of data. organizations can recover data should it be erased or corrupted accidentally or stolen during a data breach.
